Example sentences of "of [noun] i [vb base] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One always seems to come back to climate as the primary explanation of the sort of phenomena I have been discussing , but for the ultimate control , sooner or later , we must face the possibility of an extra-terrestrial cause , though in most geological circles one seems to be expected to blush when doing so . |
| 2 | ‘ Of course I 've been watching you . |
| 3 | Of course I 've been listening , ’ Algy said to Len . |
| 4 | Well of course I 've been saying for some time now , for some time , and I want to underline that , and I hope the government are listening that we 've had twenty thousand troops on our streets , we 've twelve thousand armed policemen on our streets , we have the strictest security laws in Western Europe , and none of these things have solved our problem . |
| 5 | But the range and breadth of coverage I have been talking about can not be done within the existing confines of Radio 4 . |
| 6 | If the course of action that I am suggesting and ind which is indeed consistent with the course of action I have been suggesting throughout this enquiry is to work , then I need I would suggest tomorrow is probably the absolute latest for me to get anything from you , and to give the Councils any opportunity whatsoever to make any reply to them . |
| 7 | And in the last couple of years I 've been listening to music that 's going in the same direction , like The Beach Boys , for instance , but trying to keep it within a guitar format . |
| 8 | I may be a little bit behind the times , but over the last couple of days I 've been experimenting with voice mail . |
| 9 | I now want to prove to you that this kind of evolution I 've been talking about , evolution by natural selection , at the level of individual genes , can not produce social cooperation . |
| 10 | Members of Schedule I have been given a choice of remaining in that Schedule with an NRA of 60 , or of opting for the new , improved , Schedule II . |
| 11 | Said a lot of things I 've been meaning to for a long time . ’ |
| 12 | Look , I 'm furious , I can barely contain my rage , every gram of flesh I have is quivering with anger . |
| 13 | You ca n't run with a baby , and I 'm not going to drag my kids into the sort of life I 've been living . |
| 14 | ‘ It was the kind of performance I 've been looking for for two years , ’ said Welsh coach Alan Davies . |
| 15 | ‘ It was the kind of performance I 've been looking for for two years , ’ said Welsh coach Alan Davies . |
| 16 | Let me tell you the sort of guys I 've been dealing with for years . ’ |
| 17 | Mike just a point of information I have been teaching in Harlow for twenty years and I 've never been asked by anybody at the playhouse what play 's who 's like to see in my school . |
| 18 | ‘ That 's the kind of thing I 've been making people do all day . |
| 19 | ‘ So how do we avoid turning into those sort of pillocks I 've been talking about , Jim ? ’ |
| 20 | ‘ As a matter of fact I 've been living for the past two years with a wonderful man . |