Example sentences of "i [be] [verb] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My wife and I are looking forward to contact from your readers and eventually meeting some of our diving cousins from the ‘ Motherland ’ . |
| 2 | In all this discussion , whether I am moving round talking to pairs of students at work or talking to the whole group , I see my role as provoking thought and reflection , not as telling students what to think or do . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't consider myself an idiot and anyone who says I am does n't know what they 're talking about . |
| 4 | ( And why should n't the kind of holism that I am espousing not help to make processes such as mental imagery more intelligible to us — Piaget published a number of experiments on the development of imagery . ) |
| 5 | The people to whom I am referring actually work the collieries . |
| 6 | I am writing primarily to dispel the myth your business correspondent started some months ago and repeated in each article , that CSE built the Sydney Harbour Bridge . |
| 7 | " I am writing not to denigrate you but to help you … |
| 8 | I am writing specifically to gain some clarification regarding the prospect of declaring a National Nature Reserve over the area of the Carmel Woods SSSI . |
| 9 | The extra energy not being allowed to be expressed as an increase in c appears as a commensurate increase in f , that is : ( formula included ) where m is the photon equivalent mass ( yes I know it is related to E but I am trying not to confuse myself ) , E is the energy , and h is Mr Plank 's claim to fame . |
| 10 | I am trying not to over-react but it 's difficult . |
| 11 | But I am trying not to get too down as at least I have a job to go to . ’ |
| 12 | I am trying now to wind down that project in favour of others , and am asking those who have helped me to take upon themselves what I have been doing , and find homes for their old journals — in libraries , universities and elsewhere . |
| 13 | I am trying hard to follow the hon. Gentleman 's logic . |
| 14 | As one teacher put it to me , ‘ on a bad day I have the feeling that I am struggling hard to do something that may not be worth doing at all ’ . |
| 15 | I am setting out to save the economy and the British people from the jaws of debt . |
| 16 | ‘ I really have n't had a chance to press my claims and I sincerely believe I am pushing uphill to get back into the side for a long time . ’ |
| 17 | I do not feel that their quality is really the quality I am seeking here to define ’ . |
| 18 | It is this glistening miriad of impressions , moods , intuitions , intimations , dreams and visitations which I am seeking now to catch in these orderly lines of print . |
| 19 | ‘ I was trained to see behind enemy lines , ’ Mr Aggarwal told me , ‘ and I am knowing how to observe properly . ’ |
| 20 | There are those in the village who say I am blessed not to have children , because they mean pain and work . |
| 21 | Or , maybe for the first time I am standing there looking vulnerable . |
| 22 | I am becoming increasingly agitated when I read articles like the one entitled ‘ In the Dock ’ ( January 1992 , page 44 ) in which the foul play of individual French players in the domestic league was highlighted . |
| 23 | As a supporter of the lower divisions and non-League football , I am becoming increasingly alienated from the game at the top level and I believe many thousands of people are going the same way . |
| 24 | ‘ I am practising hard to try to find the answer and I am playing in several events in the next few weeks and hope it comes right . ’ |
| 25 | The window I am sitting beside overlooks the back garden , where there is a perpetually erected bonfire , old cuttings , window sashes and a few wardrobe doors . |
| 26 | What right have I to criticise so strongly ivory traders in China who are merely making a living , while I am sitting here killing unsuspecting animals for no reason at all ? |
| 27 | Like all our previous trade union legislation , the proposals that I am announcing today have two main objectives — first , to safeguard the democratic rights of trade union members within their unions and , secondly , to protect employees , employers and the community at large against the abuse of industrial power . |
| 28 | ‘ I am working hard to try and build on this and so far we have about 16 corporate members . |
| 29 | ‘ I am working hard to complete the team , ’ said Louis yesterday . |
| 30 | His wife who I am told still resides up at Fiesole has been heard to call her husband ‘ the old Brute ’ and when a wife speaks thus I am more of a mind to listen than not . |