Example sentences of "and i be [verb] to [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He mentioned then a touring display on the poet Hugh MacDiarmid , and I am writing to you now with some more information on the display . |
| 2 | Burglar — Well , that 's my storey and I 'm sticking to it ! |
| 3 | MARK ‘ HUBBA HUBBA ’ CASWELL denies ever playing one in his life ( that 's my story and I 'm sticking to it — Corky ) , but he volunteered for this job quickly enough … |
| 4 | And I 'm trying to I 've tried without success . |
| 5 | And you do n't realize that you are lost , and not only that , but you are griping when those who realize their condition call out to me and I 'm reaching to them and rescuing them , you are griping at that ! |
| 6 | ‘ That 's my story , and I 'm keeping to it . ’ |
| 7 | Well if you 're all the way over there and I 'm talking to you I can hear my voice more . |
| 8 | I went and got last night and I 'm saying to him , now give me your numbers . |
| 9 | Because it , it 's , it 's not particularly going to grab me because I 'm going to look at it and I 'm going to I 'm going to look down to see what it 's asking me do and certainly a busy news editor is looking down the line to see , and the first thing he 'll actually do is , is just have a , a very fast glance at it , find out what it 's about , and just make sure there 's someone who can be phoned , and what the news editor will do is actually throw it out into a pile of other handouts and there 's usually a journalist who 's , who 's who 's won first prize and their task for the day is to do all the handouts , and all you want to be sure of is that someone can make a phone call and the news editor wo n't , wo n't bother with any with any superfluous detail , all he 'd want to know is that somebody can be contacted , we 'll find out about it later . |
| 10 | Floy said , slowly , ‘ If Snodgrass and I were to agree to it — ’ He stopped and Caspar said , ‘ Yes ? ’ |
| 11 | Ah now you think about it , I mean there was this question in our maths test and I was chatting to him in the dinner queue about it and I was going yeah it was this and he goes oh you 're probably right and he was agreeing with me and I found out later that I was wrong but he still agreed with me . |
| 12 | And we were at MacDonalds and I was talking to her , anyway , he even got really jealous cos I was talking to her . |
| 13 | We have a special shipping section , and I was talking to them before I came here . |