Example sentences of "the [noun] i [be] " in BNC.
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1 | because I do n't speak to at all now and that ca n't be right and the reason I do n't is because I know the response I 'm gon na get , blank look |
2 | If it 's in the daytime I 'm going to have to send you . |
3 | in the daytime I 'm going home I 'm not putting up with like that ! |
4 | By the time I am back in the tent I am on the borderline , cold enough to wake Tony with disjointed movements . |
5 | ‘ The experts I 'm talking about are the ex-members of various secret services and police forces . |
6 | The complexity I am concerned with is not that supposed intrinsic property of the text which politically motivated critics allegedly distort ( in biased readings ) and impartial critics transparently represent ( in long readings ) . |
7 | However , convincing myself the pebbles I was climbing on would n't pull out did take a little time . |
8 | But in current conditions the change I am making will help to ease the pressures on liquidity and avoid complicating money market arrangements . |
9 | " 10 is for the shit I blew over you and 10 is for the shit I am just about to blow over you , Good-day sir . " |
10 | I was sitting there waiting for the grub to show when Martin Amis came through the open door — you know , the writer I was chatting to in the pub the other night . |
11 | ‘ The board I 'm going to make for you will be a masterpiece ’ , Michael said . |
12 | Oh well , gon na get the sack I am . |
13 | As I left the cinema I was seized in an irresistible spasm of shivering . |
14 | But I often find myself being far less nervous than the artists I 'm supporting , because I 'm so used to gigging ; I 've been doing a steady diet of around four gigs a week to support myself for many years , whereas they make an album then go out on tour every two years . ’ |
15 | We did , of course , over the years of working closely together come to have some very frank exchanges , but the afternoon I am recalling was still early in our relationship and I can not see even Miss Kenton having been so forward . |
16 | By the end of the afternoon I was a nervous wreck . |
17 | During the afternoon I was given my answer . |
18 | How do I raise the money I am to pay ? |
19 | ’ I am writing in the hope that you may be able to give me some positive information regarding the money I am supposed to live on . |
20 | The money I was going to save on rent over the next month could be put towards a deposit on something — always assuming the Department of Employment did eventually pay me my due — and then I would be able to start again . |
21 | The debt counsellor said that as long as I paid all the money I was getting from Social Security for the house , they could n't take it away from us . |
22 | ‘ With all the money I 'm paying for your education , you should learn more than that ’ … |
23 | Well I mean either borrowing the money I 'm afraid |
24 | ‘ With the money I 'm prepared to pay you for your half of the house you could buy a more than adequate little base for yourself — and still have change left to indulge in a few luxuries . ’ |
25 | she 's going over at half past eleven and she said to me if it 's not worth the money I 'm not changing and er , I shall tell him that I 've certainly got to go on the books you know |
26 | Mr Chandler , who lives in Reading , said : ‘ Regardless of the outcome of the case I am convinced that the legal system would be unable to make the punishment fit the crime . |
27 | Shortly after the case I was walking down the street and a policeman went past , laughed sneeringly and said , ‘ Got you , did n't we ? ’ |
28 | ‘ Oh , it was n't the case I was worried about . |
29 | It would be interesting to know whether Petrey really does hold the views I am attributing to him , and whether he thinks that speech act theories of semantics are therefore based on a fundamental error . |
30 | In his memoirs , O'Neill offers an unconvincing explanation for this major concession ; ‘ I was fully aware of the advantage I was giving the Republicans as all the votes would take place well within the new president 's honeymoon period . |