Example sentences of "[v-ing] is that i " in BNC.
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| 1 | What 's happening is that I have a reason for rising , for living , for laughing . |
| 2 | The only reason that I am speaking is that I do not believe that the guillotine motion has anything to do with speeding up the Education ( Schools ) Bill because time was being wasted . |
| 3 | But at the heart of that issue I you know that specific issue I think is a good example of the of of the problem which I see you facing is that I think it 's more not so much about the noise but about the fact that we have a relatively privileged few people who are enjoying going to these May Balls I mean and enjoying the end of their exams , staying up all night , and I wonder in fact if it 's more a matter of sour grapes rather than environmental health . |
| 4 | Well what you 're saying is that me and ought to talk to her |
| 5 | No , all I 'm saying is that I 'd like to support Don and what Don 's just said there and I think that er , we a that is what we are gon na have to do . |
| 6 | What you 're really saying is that I 've no right to ask Madeleine to make sacrifices . |
| 7 | If I 've got this right , then what you 're saying is that I do n't need to feel any jealousy about the multiplicity of your sexual partners , because you 're married . |
| 8 | All … all that I 'm saying is that I would like my job and what I do ideally to be like that . |
| 9 | All that I am saying is that I strongly suspect that those periodic catastrophes make more showing in the stratigraphical record than we have hitherto assumed . |
| 10 | ‘ All I 'm saying is that I think we need to be apart for a while , come down to earth , if you like . |
| 11 | ‘ What you are saying is that I am not so much searching for Harry , rather , Harry is winding me in , like a fish on a line — ’ |
| 12 | I mean , what I 'm saying is that I 've come across many of dem who try to speak the Jamaican language , er , the Jamaican Patois , but how they speak it is totally different , becau' they 've got the English accent , and um , dey , becau' they 've got the English accent they try to speak the Jamaican local Patois the same way and in doin' so it sounds really terrible you know it sort of sounds you know it 's really funny . |
| 13 | So , I mean what I 'm saying is that I think we should have a league table if you like of , of attendances , I , I recognise that that may not be popular , but I think it 's going to be one way of sorting out those people who attend every opportunity , and sometimes just to pat an officer on the back . |
| 14 | If we 're gon na do a deal then we , we , we have some to drive it through but what I 'm saying is that I think that if you have this meeting I , which is what February the second ? |
| 15 | Well what I am saying is that I do n't think it is his primary concern . |
| 16 | ‘ What I 'm saying is that I can provide something that you can not — a proper family set-up for Kirsty to grow up in . |
| 17 | So what I 'm actually saying is that I 'm making my objective an elephant , it 's too large i e if I wanted to eat an elephant , it 's too large an objective , but I could achieve it by what ? |
| 18 | What , what you 're saying is that I mean broadly this is , is quite an incentive based system , at least on the face of it |
| 19 | The reason I 'm asking is that I 'm attempting to get to the games coming up against Norwich at home and Liverpool away . |
| 20 | What I am suggesting is that I think if you if you concentrate only on the question of who are the chief officers that 's very important and that 's very indicative , but it 's not the whole story . |