Example sentences of "i be [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Time , right , I am moving the amendment the reference back and I 'm handing those papers to the Chief Executive and I 'm gon na ask the Chief Executive to get someone independent to do this because you ca n't get away from the numbers that the numbers I 've get someone independent I 'll ask for that . |
| 2 | Personally , I am hoping the trip will also provide me with an insight into relief and development work as I pray about my future . |
| 3 | I am hoping the atmosphere will lift tired legs . ’ |
| 4 | And if you will be good enough to let me go on , you will see how I am monitoring the environment of the infant in order to see precisely what effect it has . |
| 5 | Peter Cole , chairman of Bramshill Parish Council , in whose bailiwick the town would have fallen , said : ‘ I might have an extra beer today , but I am saving the champagne for another 21 days . |
| 6 | I have a battle to win and would ask only that I am given the chance to do so without intrusion in my private life . |
| 7 | The piece starts quite confidently as a " narrative with an elaborated setting " ( I am using the terminology of Labov and Waletsky , 1967 ) . |
| 8 | I have written elsewhere ( Bolton , 1982 ) that the basic skill of acting is : ‘ an ability to engage with something outside oneself using an ‘ as if ’ mental set to activate , sustain or intensify that engagement' and I go on to say , ‘ I am using the word ‘ engagement ’ as a central feature because it implies a relationship at an affective level between a person and the world outside him' ( p. 135 ) . |
| 9 | In the remainder of the discussion in this paper I am using the term ‘ psychic ’ in these senses , although it may seem , at times , in the descriptions of psychic phenomena that these processes are static and fixed . |
| 10 | But pragmatism , as I am using the term here , is a function of pedagogic mediation whereby the relationship between theory and practice , ideas and their actualization , can only be realized within the domain of application , that is , through the immediate activity of teaching . |
| 11 | The crucial difference between economic growth and development , as I am using the term here , is that development may include everything that is already included in economic growth plus criteria of distribution of the social product and democratic politics . |
| 12 | And I am going into the light and I am going into time , and if I am to save the world , then I shall have served the world , and if I do not save the world , then at least I shall have tried . |
| 13 | ‘ I am assuming the responsibility for all of my co-workers , both for those things I was aware of and for those things that I discovered in the last few days since the name of Olivetti began circulating . |
| 14 | ‘ While I am pursuing the offender I do not want blood on the streets . ’ |
| 15 | However , I am getting the business matters straightened out and I hope it wo n't be too long before I shall have more time to spend with you . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I am getting the strength in depth that I need , ’ added Perkins . |
| 17 | I am telling the truth . |
| 18 | Just in recent weeks we have had public reports of a cardiologist who has had to turn seriously ill patients away because of the budget system — I am telling the truth about the health — |
| 19 | I am referring the matter to your local collector of taxes for consideration of recovery proceedings . |
| 20 | ‘ I am referring the matter to the National Audit Office as a matter of urgency , ’ he said . |
| 21 | I am seeing the surgeon on Monday , and shall ask him what magic he employed . |
| 22 | ‘ Who says I am writing the story of my life ? |
| 23 | I am considering the acquisition of a small firm in the near future . |
| 24 | Judge William Hannah adjourned the case for social inquiry reports but said : ‘ I am considering the appropriateness of a recommendation that you should be deported from this country because of your activities . ’ |
| 25 | The gentleman with the white waistcoat was standing at the gate with his hands behind him after having delivered himself having witnessed with the donkey he smiled rejoicedly when that the door , he saw at once it was Mr Mr smiled as he pursued the I am said the gentleman in the white waistcoat |
| 26 | ‘ Next time I am taking the air in the palace gardens , I shall send word to you , brother-in-law , ’ I said . |
| 27 | The police service themselves recognize that there has to be a a need for change that they have to be brought up to date er and er I think you 'll see when I a announce my decisions on the Sheahy report er that er I am taking the need to er reform the police service , very seriously indeed . |
| 28 | Whereas Scots generally write " colour " and Australians write " I know the answer " , Americans generally write " color " and Indians in many circumstances write " I am knowing the answer " . |
| 29 | Announcing his departure , Hickey commented : ‘ I am leaving the post at a natural time in Filmhouse 's history and on a personal level it enables me to take on a new challenge while moving to another area of the film industry . |
| 30 | ‘ There is no point ’ , she said , ‘ in you sitting in class doing nothing while I am teaching the rest of the form the two-times table and how to spell cat and rat and mouse . |