Example sentences of "i be [v-ing] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The two precise problems I am looking at today are what financial means should be explored , and what partnership , with other European operators or if necessary an industrial company ? ’ |
| 2 | Yes , the softness I am looking at somehow irks me . |
| 3 | But the disobedience I am referring to here is of a very particular kind . |
| 4 | The three small inner-city communities that we studied in this way would have been assumed by traditional scholars to be homogeneous in language , and the fine-grained but systematic variation I am referring to here would not have been thought possible . |
| 5 | The letter I am referring to now at the moment is a particular token instance of letter as a lexical item , a general conceptual type , a codified abstraction . |
| 6 | I am dealing with rather more interesting matters . |
| 7 | I find myself turning to the first chapter of the Book of Genesis for an insight into what I am hinting at here . |
| 8 | The disgust which inheres in desire is not , as the Freudian analysis might suggest , necessarily generated by or focused upon the repressed constituent of the self ; it may be , but what I am pointing to here is an additional structural interdependence of desire and disgust . |
| 9 | Also , her relationship with the accused man had been — I am wondering to just what extent — quite intimate . |
| 10 | Barbel fishing in the early days , and I am talking to more than a hundred years ago , was very popular amongst the gentry , who used to employ a man to bait a swim with thousands of lobworms over a period of days , sometimes weeks . |
| 11 | The differences in contents in different individuals come about in the following manner , and here I must stress that I am talking about sexually reproducing species such as our own . |
| 12 | With such a wide definition , it might be more useful to consider what this leaves out , rather than what it includes — which gets us back to the categories I am working with here : it excludes inheritance and invention . |
| 13 | To put what I am saying in more concrete terms : the dialect poetry of the Lancashire miner , say , is taken as a product of his particular cultural experience , which is different from the experience of public schoolboys or Rastafarians . |
| 14 | You are the most ill-mannered , arrogant man it has ever been my misfortune to meet and if you think that I am going to obediently trot over there and start picking up that rubbish now … ’ |
| 15 | You see , this really , this this parable i is the story of of , of something which is lost almost by default , it just wanders off , it just goes it 's own way it did n't set out to be lost , it did n't choose you know that i , it did n't go through earlier on in that day , in the little brain that the sheep has , there was n't the thought going , I am going to deliberately get lost today ! |
| 16 | JOHN Aldridge greeted the arrival of Pat Nevin at Tranmere by saying : ‘ I 'm hoping for even more goals now . ’ |
| 17 | I 'm hoping for both amusing and sad items . |
| 18 | I 'm hoping to anyway . |
| 19 | Just leave it at the moment I 'm trying to here if you ca n't |
| 20 | I 'm thinking about too much I just ca n't I 'm getting totally confused now . |
| 21 | Yeah but it 's still making me confused I 'm thinking about too much at once it 's making it worse . |
| 22 | But can you think of anyone who stands out as being somebody who really does their bit and yet does it possibly with humility or erm I 'm thinking of rather than saying sort of a general terminology of sort of Prime Ministers or what have you , erm I 'm thinking if you can think of a a particular person ? |
| 23 | But I mean they actually do work , er ten percent gross yield and erm if you asked me to explain how they get the ten percent , I 'd have to use some notes they gave to me cos it 's , cos it 's complicated , but they use derivatives , and they buy in er in the shares and options market , and erm the company I 'm thinking of actually own the shares , but you take options on them , and they take commission on the options , they also take dividends , er and by the time you 've read the , the , the spiel , it sounds a bit like you 've fitted all these petrol savers to your car and you 're driving to Nottingham , and the tank overflows , it 's that sort of |
| 24 | So you can , what what I 'm thinking of now is not so much , I 've been thinking of stuff that you have done , and that if you sort of spend a little bit of , not much time , maybe ten minutes on each topic , just having a little look at it and finding a problem , this is the sort of problem I was doing a month or two ago , can I do this one ? |
| 25 | Eight weeks later Dad went home to Hull , took one look at the nice convalescent home we 'd booked for him and said , ‘ I 'm buggered if I 'm staying in here . |
| 26 | And I 'm nursing at least one broken rib . |
| 27 | Ta very mooch again for the book & tape ( which I 'm listening to just now & it 's fab . ) |
| 28 | But I 'll find the men I 'm looking for sooner or later . |
| 29 | ‘ Tell me what I 'm looking for again , I 've forgotten , ’ said Tuppe . |
| 30 | ‘ So I 'm looking for somewhere to live . |