Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] i [verb] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously , the volume of data by making notes and by taperecording that I acquired made it sensible for me to concentrate on the one school rather than the other . |
| 2 | By next morning I 'd only got as far as realising that I had to talk you round . ’ |
| 3 | And I think even while we 'd been in Opposition , remember no one knew whether we were going to win or not , it surprised many people when we did , there had been some sort of discreet across-the-fence interest at the professional Civil Service level in some of the concepts that we were developing and I 'd made it a point of writing the occasional pamphlet as our thinking went along to send out smoke signals to everyone including the civil servants as to what we were about . |
| 4 | So he s , I said to him is it alright , says am I in danger of coasting if I 've got my foot on the if , if I 'm taking the corner in first and I 'm slipping and I got the clutch , I 'm using the engine but I 've , not much |
| 5 | and then I had to work with these people and I knew that that was the kind of way that they were operating and I had to teach them by the way I worked but in fact it was okay to admit that we do make mistakes . |
| 6 | There is no evidence that I 've finished , I 've finished eating and I 've finished my meal involve different senses of finish , so we must say that complete is a cognitive synonym of finish in only a sub-set of the grammatical occurrences of the latter . |
| 7 | I did go out with one of me mates once and he was going burgling and I needed to do one 'cos I had no money or nothing , strung out , and he went to the Old Hall Estate and broke into a house and I got in through the window with him and I just looked around and saw all these photographs of , y'know like , the family that lived there with the kids and that and I just got this horrible feeling , so I just got out the window and walked away , even though I was strung out and I did n't pick nothing up , I just left him to it ‘ cos , like , though all the burglaries I 'd done , they 'd all been shops . |
| 8 | ‘ Look 'ere , Mister Know-all , ’ he said in a confident voice , ‘ I 've bin doin' a lot o' finkin' an' I 've put meself about . |
| 9 | and I keep on saying that I 've said it like about so many things when we 're at home and she goes , what is this you always saying well with everything . |
| 10 | Saying that I 've got me notice on a Monday |
| 11 | In those circumstances , it is unnecessary to express any view on the proper construction of the charter and statutes beyond saying that I have heard nothing which persuades me that the views of Lord Jauncey of Tullichettle and the Court of Appeal [ 1991 ] 1 W.L.R. 1277 were wrong . |
| 12 | ‘ You 'll be asking if I 've packed my fleecy nightcap next , ’ she teased unevenly . |
| 13 | and they were losing and I went to spur them on . |
| 14 | And Evelyn knows I am coming but I forgot to mention you 'd be with me . ’ |
| 15 | I put up with with it then , knowing that I had chosen it . |
| 16 | I could not sleep knowing that I have done nothing . ’ |
| 17 | I know the time is slipping and I hope to get it done in the next two weeks . |
| 18 | ‘ I wish it had been boiling and I 'd poured it over your damned head ! ’ |
| 19 | I am a hobbyist of some years standing and I have had my Hatchetfish for over two years since they were no bigger than ½ pieces . |
| 20 | ‘ I seem to remember that he never stopped talking and I had given him the cold fish eye . ’ |
| 21 | No I was thinking that I 've seen her perhaps I was thinking , you know , you remind me of it . |
| 22 | You were thinking that I had married her for her money , and that she 'd married me for … all the wrong reasons . |
| 23 | And then , suddenly , she was struggling and screaming and I had to hold her wrists to stop her from scratching me . ’ |
| 24 | I was in charge of the rummage crew , and feeling that I had done my bit went to find the others . |