Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] i [be] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm I thought that erm I , I mean I was getting some things that John has n't , has n't mentioned , erm when you mentioned the wife being there erm when you , when you were introducing the C C Q you then assumed that you would be coming back with recommendations |
| 2 | I think that would do the trick but preparing handou I mean I was doing those till two , this lot for you this mor I 'm absolutely y'know it 's quite hard work when you 're concurrently teaching all the time . |
| 3 | The Stephen They 're not all I mean I 'm saying that 's right but that some of them there are more than one answer to . |
| 4 | Well I 'm I 'm not some I would n't I would n't say that I mean I 'm saying that erm |
| 5 | Oh yeah I mean I 'm saying two a day , but erm if you can get three a day , I 'd prefer it because |
| 6 | I mean I 'm finding that you know through it because I 'm sort of straining all the time I 'm getting terrible headaches and all of the |
| 7 | Then two years ago I realised I was going broke . |
| 8 | I realised I was missing half the jokes , so I mugged up from a textbook — and here I am , ready for more ! ’ |
| 9 | Like I say I 'm getting some erm |
| 10 | Out drinking with a couple of female journalists ( in what was supposedly Hemingway 's favourite bar in Havana , if you must know ) , I mentioned I was writing this article and we all launched into our favourite New Age stories , like the one about the Immortalists , a group who take to its logical end the New Age philosophy of positive thinking and creating your own reality , and have decided they are going to live forever . |
| 11 | Oh you mean if you , , I says I was getting that for years Berty . |
| 12 | I hope I was recording that . |
| 13 | I did no work that I can remember — I know I was considered hopeless by my teachers and I was quite ready to believe I was hopeless — I can quite well remember keeping mice at the back of the classroom and I can remember the smell . |
| 14 | This work gives me a reason to live , I know I 'm doing other people good and that 's the same for other workers in this field . |
| 15 | I know I 'm doing wrong to bother you , but I 'm so worried I do n't know what else to do . |
| 16 | George Underwood : ‘ When you leave school , you have to queue up and see a career 's officer and I remember I was standing right behind David in the queue and asked him what sort of job he was going to say he was looking for . |
| 17 | ‘ I find I 'm discussing all these issues with my male friends — How do you feel about being a man ? |
| 18 | So after this meal , when I find I 'm stuffing foul non-rancid things down my throat — without bad effects — I try a quick scuttle round the room . |
| 19 | I 'm left staring at it with my adrenalin draining into the floorboards , and though I wish she 'd let me take them I find I 'm getting bored . |
| 20 | I find I 'm breathing short and fast , like I 'm getting sexually excited , and I recognize the way a firearm hypnotizes and becomes your friend . |
| 21 | ‘ Funny , I find I 'm rereading more books now . |
| 22 | " I guess I 'm made that way , " she admitted . |
| 23 | I suppose I was remembering all those tests I had so long ago , all those nasty little operations — ’ Irene broke off , looking intently into her cup of coffee , as if it were to blame . |
| 24 | By leaving him a half share in the house , I feel I am achieving two objects . |
| 25 | As I say , it does n't bother me constantly all the time , Doctor you know , it 's just I feel I was carrying some shopping down the road |
| 26 | And I lost all my urge to go to church , because I felt I was doing wrong , so I did n't go , and then I did n't have the strong principles anymore . |
| 27 | Dana did not reappear for a few days , and during that time I felt I was going mad . |
| 28 | I felt I was going mad last night , so I wrote and wrote and wrote myself into the other world . |
| 29 | I knew I was taking some rare old stick mentally , though . |
| 30 | I knew I was sounding prissy and ridiculous but I could n't help it . |