Example sentences of "[coord] i [be] [adv] [v-ing] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could be , or I 'm just wondering if it 's actually squirrels , because although the , the excreta contains berries erm a squirrel will eat berries , it will also eat nuts and of course they do bury their nuts and I 've actually seen squirrels in other parts of the country digging holes and starting a bit of a larder and of course there are a lot of , of erm squirrels in Croydon so I think unless you actually see the animal you can only speculate that it is something small like a vole or , or a squirrel . |
| 2 | She is my responsibility and I am merely suggesting that you may want to go home . |
| 3 | And I 'm just wondering whether er the er point at nineteen ninety one is a correct v in view of the under-enumeration er in the census which is n't taken into account . |
| 4 | and I 'm just wondering if maybe , maybe we will just have to do a wee bit of work and try and get something on the go to see if somebody will |
| 5 | ‘ What we have here , ’ she says , ‘ is an oldtime country school , and I 'm still teaching and the kids are still learning . ’ |
| 6 | In the end I had to admit he was right and I 'm still extending and using the ideas where they apply to my present job . |
| 7 | And yet the impact on us is considerable , and I 'm seriously wondering whether the major spending committees ought not to look again at the budgets that they 're erm , and I 've discussed this with , and obviously education is the big problem , but er , I 'm not convinced that erm , the sums of money which we 're being asked to pay out , not be taken from the education budget without too dra drastic an effect on the school . |
| 8 | I feel too tired to sleep so I play some Despot when I get home but my heart 's not in it and the Empire is still in a tattered-looking state after all the earlier disasters and I 'm almost wondering if I should start again but that would mean going back to the fucking dawn of civilisation and the temptation in Despot is always to swap PoV , which people who do n't know the game always think sounds sort of innocent , like some detail , but it is n't : you 're not just swapping point of View , you 're swapping your current Despotic power Level for something less , even if it 's a regional lord or other king or a general or royal relation close to the throne , and it is not to be done lightly because as soon as you renounce the current Despot 's PoV the computer takes over and it 's a smart fucking piece of software . |
| 9 | As I reeled around in the meaty steam a little tune tinkled repetitively in my mind ; it was the song Siegfried and I were forever singing as we waited to enter the RAF , the popular jingle which In our innocence we thought typified the new life ahead . |
| 10 | Well , they got me out , and into our trenches , and patched me up , and I was just leaving when the Huns started shelling . |
| 11 | Mm and I was just wondering if that is your girl who is due to come at a quarter past six then she erm |
| 12 | I 'm talking about saving human life governments over the last twenty years , troops over the last twenty years , policemen over the last twenty years , laws over the last twenty years , and politicians , including myself , have all failed in all the efforts that we 've made including condemnation of violence , everything , but I am now saying that this dialogue is the best hope I 've seen or , surely I 'm entitled to say to the Prime Minister , alright given that I have said that why do n't you put me to the test ? |
| 13 | But I was already choking as the noose tightened around my throat . |
| 14 | But I was certainly hoping that they [ the widows ] might get a better response . |