Example sentences of "i [be] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ I 'm stopping up in the wood . ’ |
| 32 | I 'm turned on by the thought of making love to women . |
| 33 | I 'm turned out of the house where I was born whether I want to go or no , the house and the business are handed over to … to that woman , and I have to share what is left in a joint legacy with Francis ! ’ |
| 34 | I 'm looking out at the moodily lit bathroom and wondering what I would do if I suddenly saw William appear out there , flight bags in hand , a Surprise , honey , I 'm home ! look on his face . |
| 35 | I 'm looking out of the window , putting off the moment when there will be nothing left to find out and all this has to end . |
| 36 | It 's as simple as that cos we could send you off to St Andrews or something like that to er to well I 'm just I 'm homing in on the erm on the golf on the basis that I you you 're er you 're representative for a a company that does is involved with golf equipment . |
| 37 | and the comments I 'm getting back from the er the clients are very very favourable . |
| 38 | What we 've been through in the last few years has brought us a lot closer , and that 's part of the reason I 'm getting out of the rat race of international cricket … certainly for a few years , anyway . |
| 39 | I 've also got a lot of equipment I 'm taking out on the road to be able to write and play , improvise to tapes and so on . |
| 40 | I 'm sticking up for the little bless him . |
| 41 | And then I 'm hobbling along into the bathroom . |
| 42 | 2 A habitual collocation of two or more words whose combined meaning is not deducible from a knowledge of its component parts and of their grammatical relations to each other : He 's a real pain in the neck , and I 'm fed up to the teeth with the mess he 's landed us in . |
| 43 | I live in a one-bedroomed flat with very little cupboard space and I 'm fed up with the piles of clothes and shoes I trip over all the time . |
| 44 | I left home when I was 16 , I 've travelled the world and I 'm fed up with the fun side of life . |
| 45 | In one of the explicit love notes Fiona wrote : I 'm gazing out of the circular window in my office thinking of us . |
| 46 | ‘ Sorry , I 'm tied up for the next couple of months with long-haul business trips , ’ Ashley interrupted . |
| 47 | I 'm tied up at the hospital the weekend after . ’ |
| 48 | I 'm tied up at the hospital for a while each day , but we could be together most of the time . |
| 49 | This is unbelievable , I thought , I 'm locked out of the country where I live , and they worry about litter . |
| 50 | It suggests I 'm falling down on the job . |
| 51 | ‘ I 'm coming round to the idea . ’ |
| 52 | fears I er I 'm coming back from the forces I went into the main job , taking over from the previous scheduled clerk by breaking the schedules and the duties . |
| 53 | ‘ I mean facts that relate to the story I 'm working on at the time . |
| 54 | I 'm bowled over by the logic and impressed with the religious zeal . ’ |
| 55 | By the way , your ma will be able to help out at your dairy for a month or two as I 'm cutting down on the number of cows at the manor . |
| 56 | " I 'm going over to the Drovers for lunch . " |
| 57 | Des transmits that he found me , and I say that I 'm going over to the flats to see what 's happening , but both Des and the radio warn me off . |
| 58 | " And now , if you 'll excuse me , I 'm going on to the worst problem of the lot — Willis 's financial position … |
| 59 | About the papers in the portmanteau and Molly and how I 'm going on to the monastery next . ’ |
| 60 | I 'm going on to the monastery . |