Example sentences of "i be [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am fondling her like a memory , in the way you stroke a cat : knowing it 's there , glad it 's purring , but letting thoughts wander like your fingers tickling the fur . |
| 2 | And , Father , he asked — the lord sheriff asked — that I should beg you to have Brother Cadfael informed also , and when the morning comes , if you permit , I am to lead him to the place , to meet the sheriff there . |
| 3 | Back in Fr Butler 's home parish of St Lachtain in Freshford , Kilkenny , Fr Seamus Henry said : ‘ I have n't been in touch with John for some months but I am supporting him in a pastoral way . |
| 4 | ‘ I am to take you to the count . |
| 5 | After Titania 's quatrains — the most artificial verse-form in drama , presupposing as it does that the speaker has four lines already prepared , with rhymes , confident of not being interrupted — Bottom 's prose truly belongs to the world of unromantic everyday appetites : Bottom may have been ‘ translated ’ in shape , but nothing can elevate him to verse and romance — apart , ironically enough , from his role as Pyramus , out of whose Pistol-like doggerel he is ever ready to step in order to explain the play : ‘ She is to enter now , and I am to spy her through the wall . |
| 6 | No problem Mr Prospect , I 'm glad you feel that way however I am seeing you in a fortnight 's time , have a chat with him between then and now and when I see you next week I 'll ta or whenever the time 'll be , I 'll take his telephone number from you then . |
| 7 | I am taking you to the house of Robert Asshe , in Holborn . |
| 8 | ‘ I am taking you to the dressing-room where the ladies are gathered , they would be your best customers , I do n't doubt . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Joseph Shill , I am arresting you for the murder of your wife , Maria Shill , at Windsor , on 19th December . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Miles Engado , I am arresting you for the — ’ |
| 11 | I am doing them in a minute . |
| 12 | ‘ They pay me , ’ he says , before qualifying his statement : ‘ I am doing it for the love of my art . |
| 13 | I am trailing them along the line of their tea-breaks and their modest working lunches of packet soup followed by something you eat with mustard . |
| 14 | I am leading you along the path I had to tread to find the most suitable disease , for only in this way can I be sure that the reader understands the nature of the ultimate decision and the ludicrousness of any attempt to confuse it with my own stick and gloves or any prior misinformation regarding the state of my own health . |
| 15 | He thinks that I am selling her for the night . |
| 16 | Meantime I am treating it as a double murder . ’ |
| 17 | I 'm thinking we at the latest we can |
| 18 | ‘ Tommy Cook , I 'm arresting you for the murder of Christopher Jabelman … ‘ |
| 19 | ‘ Iain MacPherson , I 'm arresting you for the … ‘ |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm ordering you off the Mills case with immediate effect . ’ |
| 21 | and it keeps on cutting out , that 's why I 'm stopping it by the way . |
| 22 | ‘ No , I 'm taking her to the doctor 's . ’ |
| 23 | So today I 'm taking them to a matinée . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Do n't forget , I 'm taking you to the Stadt Berlin . |
| 25 | I 'm taking you to the bank , ’ he muttered in her ear , his voice reverberating through her body . |
| 26 | I 'm taking you to the Jolly Farmers . |
| 27 | Today I 'm taking you in the carriage to Millcote to buy you some elegant clothes . |
| 28 | If I take away the minus twenty well I 'm taking it from the same thing are n't I ? |
| 29 | I said to Claire , I said , I 'm sticking them in the wrong one . |
| 30 | For example , I 'm careful about using certain words , like ‘ frequency ’ , with younger audiences , when I 'm telling them about the owl 's unusual ‘ lopsided ’ hearing . |