Example sentences of "[noun sg] i [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have n't actually managed to make it yet this term because of all the teaching preparation I 've been doing , but erm I 've done that for the last two years and erm it 's been quite an important activity because it enabled me , after I came back down to Lewes , to help to get to know a few people in the university and to sort of expand my contacts , and the Meeting House is one of those places which is open to the general public on Sundays for religious worship . |
| 2 | I had n't actually managed to make it yet this term because of all the teaching preparation I 've been doing but erm I 've done that for the last two years and erm it 's been quite an important activity because it enabled me , after I came back down to Lewes , to help to get to know a few people in the University and to sort of expand my contacts . |
| 3 | A scientist I know is amazed how often his eight year-old son can see immediately through a tangle of ideas in a problem — the directness and uncomplicatedness and openness of the child is a huge asset which many adults have lost . |
| 4 | The other interesting runner I rode was Auntie Dot , particularly as she has the advantage of being schooled over a National-type fence on her trainer John Webber 's gallops . |
| 5 | The counsel I used was an exceptionally suitable person , Sir Joseph Molony QC , the son of a Northern Ireland judge . |
| 6 | Apart from being sick and having to keep going to the loo I loved being pregnant . |
| 7 | Now , I do n't , the story I quoted was I , I interviewed Lord Marshall on the local radio thing many years ago , and I asked him about nuclear fusion . |
| 8 | It was the story of a lifetime , the story I had been born for . |
| 9 | The saddest story I heard was of a sheriff officer going to a door to collect items that were to be sold at auction . |
| 10 | ‘ You know perfectly well , Marler , that these days I only go after a story I think is really worthwhile . |
| 11 | And in a way er and this is a story I think is gon na develop over the next six months or a year . |
| 12 | But the range and breadth of coverage I have been talking about can not be done within the existing confines of Radio 4 . |
| 13 | No I think this is board meeting and as a board I think were interested to get your points of view what is n't taken place that you 'd liked to take place and what you 'd like to see in the future well and that 's why the meetings been convened . |
| 14 | I , I only took one case on after I was married er and that er that was a maternity case I 'd been to the first baby . |
| 15 | In my own case I had been taught by Okely to avoid the split between subjectivism and an objective reality , but I had no preparation to contend with the changes which the field experience created in me . |
| 16 | They may want security , er one case I 've been del dealing with they wanted the share certificates depositing by way of some security for instance . |
| 17 | First category I suggest is is about attitude in the sense of liking , disliking . |
| 18 | So honesty I think is absolutely vital . |
| 19 | you see , so yeah and er we used to have as I say er , well for instance I 've been up in the office . |
| 20 | That 's the excuse I 've been giving , and |
| 21 | The only excuse I have is that I was very young , a marvellous justification for most reprobate behaviour , and that I was wearing an uncomfortable vest . |
| 22 | ‘ I was getting on for thirty years of age , with the retarded emotions of an adolescent , and the only excuse I have is that I 'd spent most of my youth pursuing excellence rather than women . ’ |
| 23 | The significant change I think is in the balance of debt between fixed and variable rate , where we took a conscious decision and been working it through to take more advantage of the prospective and er decline , it was prospective earlier in the year er in selling interest rates and the continued low er short-term rates in the United States . |
| 24 | The acoustic I use is a Yamaha APX12 — a stereo acoustic twelve-string . |
| 25 | The Squirrel I flew was appropriate for the task , being owned privately by a pilot who bought it new and had flown just 60 hours before it was introduced to me . |
| 26 | ‘ The difficulty I have is proving it . ’ |
| 27 | The other difficulty I have is with some of these criteria and their use at a strategic level . |
| 28 | The other difficulty I have is in the er the lower case text which ex attempts to explain what is meant by this particular criterion , the sorts of considerations that will be taken into account . |
| 29 | Some indication of the immense editorial difficulties that arose , many of which I may say were not solved until the , the Pléiade edition in three volumes of nineteen fifty-four , some of the difficulty I think is hinted at , at any rate , in a recent description of the state of Proust 's papers at the moment of his death , and I quote : ‘ Huge packets of type- and manuscript , the pages festooned with half-illegible addenda , and blackened with savage deletions which had swallowed up entire paragraphs , heaped the ugly little bamboo table that stood near his death-bed , and overflowed from the shelves of the table along the top of the nearby chimneypiece . |
| 30 | The only payment I received was for travelling expenses from COHSE . |