Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's only raining I mean |
| 2 | He even managed to do some work in front of the Greek television cameras , so enabling me to make the Central Television programme ‘ At Home with Costakis in Athens ’ . |
| 3 | After five minutes patiently waiting I noticed that he had been distracted on his way back by a friend behind the counter . |
| 4 | Er and I think perhaps teaching I do n't know whether it 's different today but they seemed to instil in us the love of , of poetry and the , the love of literature and that sort of thing . |
| 5 | ‘ The idea of an arms embargo , I think that this is practical , and morally speaking I think this is right and really worthwhile to consider , ’ the Dalai Lama , accompanied by the other laureates , told reporters in Bangkok . |
| 6 | He seemed to have forgotten about only letting me loose on water . |
| 7 | Actually , I guess I would n't want to tell it to anybody , not so much because I 'm ashamed ( I tell myself ) as because it 's private ; one last thing I can hide that 's between me and Andy only , so letting me feel that there is one thing at least in which I 've not betrayed him utterly . |
| 8 | ‘ In so saying I express no view whatsover as to the correctness or otherwise of the jury 's award ’ . |
| 9 | Is it not exciting enough having me open my presents for you ? |
| 10 | In so doing I depart somewhat from studies of working-class involvement in the formal political sphere during the twentieth century . |
| 11 | I then burrowed into the cockpit to wrench the gear from its housing but in so doing I became unplugged and did not hear the pilot shouting that we were about to ditch . ’ |
| 12 | In so doing I lay great emphasis on the Biblical text because I consider the Scriptures to be our ultimate authority in matters of doctrine and life . |
| 13 | But I 'm not seeing me kid and me husband walk to town in second-hand clothes . |
| 14 | cos it 's not raining I do n't know what I 'm talking about |
| 15 | ‘ You 're not suggesting I turn up like Lady Godiva ? |
| 16 | ‘ Well , I 'm not sayin' I believe it , mind , but I want to know about that happy-birthday message . |
| 17 | Francis added : ‘ The chairman 's main concern is not wanting me to receive a serious injury which might prevent me from managing properly . ’ |
| 18 | I did n't really blame you for not wanting me to come near you , but it was n't a particularly pleasant experience to realise that I 'd put someone I 'd loved through such an appalling time . |
| 19 | When he was not looking I came down and took the car . |
| 20 | When I am not writing I draw . |
| 21 | she 'll get it by hook or by crook , that 's on the , wonder she 's not in jail though for not paying I heard how many time , how much she 's borrowed over Christmas , for at , for , for er , what they call it as well you know er , what they call it Beverley her daughter |
| 22 | Yeah , you were just testing me to see if I |
| 23 | It 's not going I think it is . |
| 24 | If I 'm looking for anything I prefer to shop in , but if I 'm just browsing I do n't mind going like out of the town , down to or up to for a day but , if I 'm looking for something particular I prefer to stay in cos I know where to go . |
| 25 | I was n't playing well for the rest of the team , and that is one of my strengths , because even when I 'm not scoring I know I can contribute . |
| 26 | Generally speaking I try and use a fairly clean sound and overdrive it with effects , rather than overdrive the amp . ’ |
| 27 | The strange thing is that I ca n't say I was unhappy in the Service , and generally speaking I enjoyed myself , even coming to realise as time went by that it was an experience I would hate to have missed — and yet , for years afterwards I used to have nightmares about my life in uniform . |
| 28 | generally speaking I think you can up to about half time without having any effect on your re- employment earnings . |
| 29 | I think that 's not uncommon actually if you , when you get people who 've , who 've been away from the education system for a f a few years and I think it 's almost like mature students do have more anxiety than people who come straight from school generally speaking I think erm |
| 30 | Erm if it 's um well generally speaking I think , thinking about what the sort of consensus would be among people who who study this sort of thing , they 're usually looking for some sort of of discrepancy in ages or powers or something . |