Example sentences of "i [be] [verb] she [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am fondling her like a memory , in the way you stroke a cat : knowing it 's there , glad it 's purring , but letting thoughts wander like your fingers tickling the fur . |
| 2 | After Titania 's quatrains — the most artificial verse-form in drama , presupposing as it does that the speaker has four lines already prepared , with rhymes , confident of not being interrupted — Bottom 's prose truly belongs to the world of unromantic everyday appetites : Bottom may have been ‘ translated ’ in shape , but nothing can elevate him to verse and romance — apart , ironically enough , from his role as Pyramus , out of whose Pistol-like doggerel he is ever ready to step in order to explain the play : ‘ She is to enter now , and I am to spy her through the wall . |
| 3 | " Since you do not want the maiden , I am taking her for myself , gracious princess ! " he called . |
| 4 | He thinks that I am selling her for the night . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm leaving her in your care , ma'am , ’ he said . |
| 6 | ‘ No , I 'm taking her to the doctor 's . ’ |
| 7 | I 'm seeing her at lunch time , I 'll speak to her . |
| 8 | I 'm paying her of course . |
| 9 | ‘ That 's why I 'm keeping her at my place for the moment . ’ |
| 10 | That 's why I 'm keeping her with me . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I was bouncing her on my knee ’ |
| 12 | I was telling her about our need of somewhere to meet , and she said she would love to help us but that Mr. Olinton would n't hear of it . |
| 13 | I 'd gone across to the old folks ' home to have a chat with Maureen and , inevitably , I was telling her about the trouble I was having . |
| 14 | The other day I was telling her about something that had happened , crying as I told the story , and she started crying too . |
| 15 | I was telling her about |
| 16 | So do I and I was just talking to her downstairs and I was asking her like the differences between here and the States , you know the boar cos she was in a boarding school before , and she was saying erm how you know just generally the people are nicer and the blokes talk to you not just because you 're cos they |
| 17 | I was carrying her in my arms out of hospital . |
| 18 | If I 'm caught , I 'll say I was lifting her for myself . ’ |
| 19 | I was treating her like some harem favourite and she was repaying me in kind , except that any harem inmate who behaved with Lotta 's indiscretion would long since have been tied in a sack and dropped in the Bosporus ! ’ |
| 20 | ‘ You can go and see Mrs M , ’ said my mother and I wondered whether her sense of grievance towards me was inclining her to spite . |