Example sentences of "[pers pn] 'm [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm hoping to be able to get around to every house in the village with the petition , ’ said Mrs. Gilmour . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm hoping to be changed back before I get used to it , ’ she said ( with considerable spirit , bearing in mind how hopeless she felt ) . |
| 3 | So erm I 'm hoping to be able to do it , just off what I can do , m my experience as it is like . |
| 4 | I 'm trying to be clear . |
| 5 | And I 'm trying to be serious today . ’ |
| 6 | I 'm trying to be calm and … and helpful for us all round . ’ |
| 7 | I 'm trying to be relaxed like Frank Edwards [ also of Repton ] and get a lazy jab like his . ’ |
| 8 | I 'm trying to be nice . |
| 9 | I 'm trying to be honest about him , and about myself . |
| 10 | I 'm not being coy ; I 'm trying to be useful . |
| 11 | ‘ Matthew , I 'm trying to be very understanding and modern about this , but I want you to realize that for women of my generation , it 's difficult to accept the prevailing mores . ’ |
| 12 | No we get we get a lot of erm sort of similar questions I 'm no I 'm trying I 'm trying to be it 's only just me . |
| 13 | I 'm trying to be very good but er I can only so much of that ! |
| 14 | Yes and they they provided me with boxes of tapes and batteries and eh Walkman and so on and so forth and eh , I 'm trying to be conscientious . |
| 15 | I 'm going out tonight so I 'm trying to be well today . |
| 16 | In fact , I 'm looking to be back against Coventry on Wednesday night . ’ |
| 17 | I 'm looking to be pushing because I , I I might ask them to get speakers in etcetera . |
| 18 | ‘ I now feel that I 'm getting to be somebody in my own right , and not someone my mother wanted me to be . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm getting to be able to read you better and better . |
| 20 | Now I 've found out that he is n't my father I 'm learning to be free for the first time in my life , do you understand ? ’ |
| 21 | is taking his seat , I 'm causing to be handed out this plan . |
| 22 | I 'm beginning to be quite confident that we were right , though it will be some years before we can be really certain we 've made the breakthrough . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm beginning to be glad I let her talk me into coming . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Now sor , I 'm goin' to be tellin' yer sometin' . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm goin' to be all by meself again ? ’ asked Dolly , her hair flooding the pillow with auburn . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm bound to be taken for the chauffeur , ’ he laughed out , mispronouncing the word with relish but he was not corrected as he hoped . |
| 27 | So I 'm bound to be recognised . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm bound to be a marked man because of the goals I 've scored this season , but there will be more along soon — I 'm sure of that . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm a sister , so I 'm bound to be a dragon . ’ |
| 30 | ’ I have n't been on the stage for a long time , so I 'm bound to be as nervous as a kitten before I go on . |