Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] i [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The second I saw was an Alan Ayckbourn , considering that I was only six at the time and I did n't understand some of it I still was enthralled with the acting and enjoyed it almost as equally enough as the panto . |
| 32 | Now she is wishing that I was back at work . ’ |
| 33 | I was busting and I was there going I said and I could n't exactly say can I go to the toilet ? |
| 34 | I think that we have a very butch attitude , I think the government has a very butch attitude quite honestly , er to , you know , you 've got to er stand up there and help yourself , and I suppose I 'm all for that , but you 've got to have something to help yourself with , and I think that 's where we ought to be aiming and I 'm very glad that the world 's leaders are heading straight in that direction . . |
| 35 | We , I used to move around a lot on those days as you could do really speaking because I was n't old enough to be under the Essential Works Order you see , and er I was by the time I went into the army it was 1946 so er the war was over . |
| 36 | HEAVEN is my witness that I do not want to be unfair to British Telecom , so I must , with frank and honest gaze , report that I have had several letters saying that I am up the pole in carrying on about the method of charging recently mentioned in this column . |
| 37 | That is why I keep saying that I am not only interested in our knowing more about our faith but also in our putting more faith into our lives . |
| 38 | I can only conclude by saying that I am very sorry the situation has developed as it has . |
| 39 | You 're saying that I 'm pretty hopeless at everything , but somebody might , just might , be prepared to put up with my teaching . ’ |
| 40 | ‘ I was simply saying that I 'm not a total stranger to your country . ’ |
| 41 | I stand here , I am not a perfect minister because I am over forty I 've got children that are not too awkward but erm , could be awkward and , I have n't a spouse ah and ah I stand here saying that I 'm not good at everything I 'm good with young people , I 'm not o only good with old people I try to do my best . |
| 42 | Now , having started in that light , I may be going to disappoint you by saying that I 'm not in fact going to spend the next erm fifty minutes or so talking about the moral , political , philosophical implications of Darwinism . |
| 43 | Let me finish in a very positive note in saying that I 'm as concerned as the speaker to which I reply that that day will be reached and reached soon , please God , when we can sit down together and share fully in the sacrament of the lord 's supper . |
| 44 | In fact , Mum had reprimanded me many times for being Sam 's lap-dog , saying that I was too much under my brother 's rotten influence . |
| 45 | No , I do n't want to do that I just said to her , I said you know , you can sort of erm ask Brenda she said I 'm doing that I 'm not on christmas day , would you ? |
| 46 | Now that seems to me , that might induce er slightly might do , but I could I I think that , wha I what I thought you were saying was different from what you ended up saying and I 'm not sure which |
| 47 | They are on the point of asking if I am all right . |
| 48 | The next thing I remember is coming to on the canal bank , and a man bending over me asking if I was all right . |
| 49 | See , it 's gone five and she 'll be creatin' if I 'm not back for my tea . ’ |
| 50 | Well that , that 's what I 'm saying is that , I think what we have to start doing and I 'm not suggesting you 're not doing , but I just want to talk about this in , before we practically kick off on the course proper , I think what , I mean that comes off , and then the oil starts dripping out of it , and the minute the oil starts dripping out , then we become quite a good artist are n't we ? |
| 51 | And I was saying but I 'm not cos I mean like day weeks he goes yeah but you 're just as bad as all the rest of them , you would be and he would n't say anything , you know , he would n't even tell me that . |
| 52 | Sorry I should n't be saying because I was Incidentally , I did n't say to you that when they transcribe it , if a name comes up they , they just write erm do you want a cup of tea , name ? |
| 53 | One day I started crying because I was so upset about how poorly he was . |
| 54 | ‘ If you are asking whether I am still confident about the children in which I raised the concern to begin that process , the answer is ‘ yes ’ . |
| 55 | ‘ As I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted , you 're intelligent as well as beautiful . |
| 56 | I do a lot of sketching when I 'm out , of real people in the street . |
| 57 | I do a lot of sketching when I 'm out , of real people in the street . |
| 58 | I had a Morris 10 which went like a bird , and I thereupon conceived the wild idea of rescuing Eliot from London if the danger should seem acute — and assuming that I were still available — and settling him , however temporarily , in the village . |
| 59 | I felt sick when she praised the lead , knowing that I was n't really coping . |
| 60 | I 'll spend the rest of my life knowing that I was willingly used by a man who did n't love me . |