Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [verb] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am enclosing tickets for the new play and as they are in the front stalls , I may see you as I come on , ; but do not expect me to salute you , you understand , as I shall be taken up with my part . |
| 2 | I am collating information with the aim of putting practitioners in touch with each other and sharing experience . |
| 3 | ‘ I am receiving treatment at the Lister Hospital in London and any women who would be willing to donate eggs would only have to make two trips down there . |
| 4 | Or suppose that I am eating escargots for the first time and can not bring myself to forget the disgustingly slimy look and feel of snails in the garden . |
| 5 | If for example I am pursuing X in the expectation of enjoying it , but when I get it am disappointed , or seem to enjoy it yet afterwards come to recognize that only habit or a false idea of myself or susceptibility to persuasion made me suppose I was enjoying myself , then I was mistaken in doing Y. Every choice of means , however well argued , proves groundless with the discrediting of the end , yet that I did not have the fun I expected is itself no more than a fact . |
| 6 | Yes I 'm trying to get it done , but I am getting pressure from the year group as well , it was , and so I 've got that , back out at Wednesday , so I 'm gon na have to have my hair done last |
| 7 | ‘ My name is Legion , and I am acting captain of the Interstellar Mining Corporation vessel Insider Trading . ’ |
| 8 | I am conducting research into the education provision and support for young people who are looked after by the local authority . |
| 9 | No I do n't think I have , indeed I am meeting members of the grass roots of the party this afternoon . |
| 10 | I shall be meeting the representatives of the Standing Conference of Principal Youth and Community Officers for the London and south-east Region on 17 December , and I am meeting representatives of the British Youth Council and the Scout Association in the near future . |
| 11 | As a mature student studying for a degree in Sport and Recreation studies , I am undertaking research into the Staffordshire Way . |
| 12 | I AM doing research into the Victorian Temperance Movement in Liverpool and would be grateful for any information concerning characters , events , strategies , minutes , tracts , hand-bills , meeting places etc. , that your readers might be able to provide . |
| 13 | Ministers should argue the figures with the Duke of Edinburgh — I am quoting figures from the Rowntree report . |
| 14 | I am preparing papers for the relinquishment of the claim , but once she signs them she will be literally on the streets and penniless . |
| 15 | By paying now rather than waiting , shall I be saving money in the long run ? |
| 16 | I can not , therefore , detach myself from the wickedest soul nor may I be denied identity with the most virtuous . ’ |
| 17 | I 'm meeting Lucy off the train later on anyway , and if you want to know the truth ’ — he looked about him with rolling eyes — ‘ I 'm completely pissed off with the whole of this bloody set-up . |
| 18 | The general point here and I want to make is that er , these are n't officers ' promises these are the members ' promises and er , erm , we 've got to be careful that er when they 're all drawn together that we are n't making a hostage fortune , erm and so that I think it is very important members take aboard er what is suggested and test them themselves to see that they are realistic , I would also say that er as these promises are being considered by the various committees and I note a considerable variation in standards which will need to be addressed when the promises er , have come back to the Policy Committee , these are particularly in reference to the time required to respond to er , erm complaints etc , it 's no use having the Highways Committee wanting two weeks and incidentally on promise number two erm I think that er any up , somebody else 's point er straight forward wants to be deleted , erm the highways require two weeks to respond er , erm hearts and libraries want a , you know half a day , er and we 've got to get these er erm more or less synchronized I think , and whilst I 'm thinking Chairman on the last page er of the er favourite for , for first for agent authorities , but it does n't give any indication about the contact point and as most of our population live in the agent authorities that the er it needs to be expanded to give the contacts er points for the members of the public . |
| 19 | When I 'm watching rugby on the TV and the children are running about like savages , screaming for attention . |
| 20 | I like to put the television on , as there 's usually a very good programme at twelve ten like there is supposedly Rainbow today , but there is n't , which I find very useful for my toddler while I 'm getting lunch for the baby , myself and her , so she can sit down for twenty minutes , there can be a few minutes peace , and there 's just you know it 's just not on . |
| 21 | I , I 'm getting nods round the table , I do n't like , I do n't think there 's any , sorry Derek yes ? |
| 22 | I 'm riding Firelight in the competition . |
| 23 | I 'm throwing water in the ceiling . |
| 24 | I I 'm using LocoScript on the Amstrad and it 's adequate and I can then just port ASCII text files across into WordPerfect . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm selling subscriptions to the twentieth century . ’ |
| 26 | I 'm losing power on the straights , and the three of you had better work at it because I 've only got one more chance ! ’ |
| 27 | I 'm saying goodbye to the stage . |
| 28 | ’ I 'm bidding farewell to the land of my youth , |
| 29 | So I 'm qualifying people on the phone I guess . |
| 30 | I had decided when in Rome to do as the Romans or in this case , more appropriately , when in Babylon do as the Babylonians — no , I do n't mean I 'm having orgies in the servants ’ quarters , or letting Gooseneck have his way with me . |