Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] [conj] i [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am employing you because I believe you will do a first-class job . |
| 2 | Well , I think he should have a letter anyway , definitely thanking him cos I mean he did like |
| 3 | Well I I 'm I think that er I 'm less worried about dating it cos I think it actually quite important to date it , like the war memorial ground and actually fairly closely although it 's not actually dated to the end of the war , I mean it was nineteen fifty two when it was established . |
| 4 | Would he 've had time to take it home in between stealing it and me finding him ? |
| 5 | Yes , why I am asking you or I did I say |
| 6 | That has always been the case , we have always been criticised for doing it but I find it outstandingly noticeable this year . |
| 7 | I 'm not doing it for monetary reward or because I 'm asked to ; I 'm doing it because I feel I have to do it . |
| 8 | As one single mother noted about the financial support she received from her mother , ‘ it 's not very nice her doing it because I feel I should be helping her ’ ( Cohen , 1991a , p. 40 ) . |
| 9 | I 'm not doing it for monetary reward or because I 'm asked to ; I 'm doing it because I feel I have to do it . |
| 10 | Except that I probably made some damp patches , handling him after I got him out . ’ |
| 11 | I was reminding him when I said I 'd come with you . |
| 12 | I was on that , I mean I 've not been taking them all the time , I 've really only been taking them when I feel it . |
| 13 | That 's it well tha there 's Peggy says I said oh well I 'm a bit erm worried about taking them and I said they have been known to get up and walk out , and said , surely not ! |
| 14 | I must admit that I got fed up with pursuing it and I think it 's like banging your head against a brick wall in the end . |
| 15 | I 'd already put my life on the line by marrying you when I thought you were in love with Radcliffe . |
| 16 | ‘ I dislike admitting it but I think I have changed my tune . ’ |
| 17 | Let me be buried in lead at Claydon next to where your father proposes to lie himself , and let no stranger wind me , nor do not let me be stripped , but put a clean smock on me , and let my face be hid and do you stay in the room and see me wound and laid in the first coffin , which must be of wood if I do not die of any infectious disease , else I am so far from desiring it that I forbid you to come near me . |
| 18 | ‘ Everyone was watching me but I knew I did n't need to go fast . |
| 19 | Cos they keep telling cos I owe them so many hours they keep coming up to me and telling me that I owe them so many hours , you signed the contract saying you 've got whatever happens . |
| 20 | they were saying how spoilt children are today and how , erm I think it was Anne who was telling me and I said it , that is just ridiculous is n't it ? for a four year old to have their own video |
| 21 | ‘ I was just telling you that I reckon it was a good idea — to wait a day before going back to New York , ’ Carole repeated , smiling to herself at the other girl 's slightly abstracted expression . |
| 22 | It does put you off and you start thinking , Oh there 's no point trying it cos I know I 'm going to be last . |
| 23 | I was only teasing you because I thought you were just like the rest of them . |
| 24 | Thank you for raising it but I think we should now get Trevor to er draw up er a report on , on , on what the make-up of the overheads on this organization is . |