Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [v-ing] to i " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is bigger than what I am doing to me … |
| 2 | Now of course I 'm not supposed to admit to these things , being a professional , bo b before I do admit it them as I am going to I have to say that er on an average year er year we do about one thousand five hundred jobs and in that time there will probably be about three or four claimable accidents that we 'll have . |
| 3 | And I 'm trying to I 've tried without success . |
| 4 | I 'm trying to I 'm trying to tie this this erm |
| 5 | I said well I 'm trying to I said this bloke what happens to be my oldest brother I said , and he wo n't even tow it for me ! |
| 6 | Well I 'm trying to I 'm still thinking integration that 's all . |
| 7 | more information I mean this is , I mean this is part of what I was talk mythology I mean we 're talking about the index survey so when I raised the example of Churchill and the Churchill ex example is , was a good one because I mean he was an intellectual in his way , you know I mean he was a big bright cookie and but his was in terms of word count because he had a use of words for the way he used his words was how ordinary people would understand him I mean if you go back to you know we will fight them on the beaches and everything else I mean you think of the number of syllables he used in those words etcetera , etcetera I mean that 's sort of what I 'm getting to I mean he had his sharp succinct approach you know |
| 8 | And very swiftly from that I 'm going to I 'm going to move to your part of the world Fred , I 'm going to go to Preston in Lancashire . |
| 9 | I 'm going to I 'm going to accelerate now cos I see I 'm going on too long . |
| 10 | Well if that 's where I 'm going to I would n't be able to get the triple buggy into that shop , would I ? |
| 11 | Well I 'm going to I 'm going to have two things . |
| 12 | I 'm going to I 'm going to put the put another big sink out because that 's |
| 13 | Because it , it 's , it 's not particularly going to grab me because I 'm going to look at it and I 'm going to I 'm going to look down to see what it 's asking me do and certainly a busy news editor is looking down the line to see , and the first thing he 'll actually do is , is just have a , a very fast glance at it , find out what it 's about , and just make sure there 's someone who can be phoned , and what the news editor will do is actually throw it out into a pile of other handouts and there 's usually a journalist who 's , who 's who 's won first prize and their task for the day is to do all the handouts , and all you want to be sure of is that someone can make a phone call and the news editor wo n't , wo n't bother with any with any superfluous detail , all he 'd want to know is that somebody can be contacted , we 'll find out about it later . |
| 14 | ‘ What I feel you are saying to me is that this previous relationship is something you do n't want to talk about in front of Tom . |
| 15 | You are lying to me , Nigel . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ You are lying to me , madam ! ’ the Trunchbull shouted , glaring at Matilda . |
| 17 | ‘ You are talking to me . |
| 18 | ‘ I do n't understand what you are doing to me . |
| 19 | ‘ From which , ’ Luke said smoothly , ‘ I must gather you 're referring to me . |
| 20 | ‘ If you 're referring to me as a — ’ |
| 21 | But if you 're looking to me for a list of who really makes which strings , I 've found that asking straight questions does n't always get you straight answers . |
| 22 | And they all said now look is there anything we can do and I said no , it 's not , if you 're coming to me as far as I 'm concerned I will do it , you need anything and I will cope . |
| 23 | Erm well what I , what happens , I think that 's good , it 's act it 's not , it 's not inside because it 's encapsulated , it 's not inside because it 's held in there by the socket joint if I draw , draw you a picture , it 's not because the socket joint is so tight it ca n't fall out , is that what you 're saying to me ? |
| 24 | So are you talking , you 're saying to me that 's a full term 's work ? |
| 25 | Erm right so what you 're saying to me then basically is that er as long as my references are acceptable |
| 26 | But what you 're saying to me is that there are six double O ones and |
| 27 | I , I do n't know how they get there but they know how our army works , we know how their army works , we can not hide manoeuvre 's and every army in the world knows the manoeuvre 's I 've been on one big NATO manoeuvre out in Germany right , and you 're saying to me they do n't know how I , how each army works |
| 28 | It does mean collect , sort of , er , you 're talking to me everybody , it does sort of mean collect , anybody else ? |
| 29 | MS When do you feel you would use Patois and when would you talk as you 're talking to me now ? |
| 30 | ‘ You 're talking to me ! ’ |