Example sentences of "and i [am/are] [verb] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He ran well from a bad draw when beaten about four lengths at Redcar recently and I am hoping to run him in the Portland Handicap at Doncaster . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ It is now about five years since this all started and it has been quite stressful but I feel pretty strongly about what happened to me and my child and I am determined to see it through . |
| 3 | It will be the first grand event after the Christmas and New Year celebrations , and I am determined to make it a success . |
| 4 | It 's about 1½ ″ below my shoulders and I am trying to grow it so that I can have a style that 's cut straight across the bottom . |
| 5 | ‘ I am off-duty , ’ said Sally-Anne awefully , ‘ and I am bound to tell you that although I am here I am not here in the sense of waiting on you . ’ |
| 6 | Aunt Ilsa was in the library ; she had a heavy cold at the time and I am tempted to say we discovered her poring over a map , but the inelegant truth is that she was searching the shelves for a misplaced book when we entered . |
| 7 | The facts are the facts , and I am compelled to record them with a plainness of detail which in the end offers the only means of extending that small degree of compassion , or perhaps even understanding , which all men in whatever circumstance or however degraded should not be denied . |
| 8 | ‘ But my husband is going to teach me , ’ she said ‘ and I am going to teach him about ballet . ’ |
| 9 | I know that Russell lives in your basement and I am going to kill him . |
| 10 | But it was n't our girls that did it and I am going to prove it . ’ |
| 11 | My ethos was I 've got a lot of money , but I 've got to look after the people as far as I can who have helped to produce it and I am going to make it grow bigger for our successors . |
| 12 | Unfortunately though , my nose will not let me off the hook and I am forced to leave it . |
| 13 | We have a single and an album coming out and I 'm determined to see it through |
| 14 | if , if Freud 's theory of the group is correct , that it 's centred on the leader playing the super role then the presumably the leader could exhort members of the group to act better than they normally would , because after all one of the super leader 's functions is to set the goals for the ego and to give the the goal , the ego something to aspire to so er and as Joy mentioned in her papers and I 'm trying to remind you of , y you , you said that quoting Freud if you recall that , that , that Freud says and I think he , he , he repeats this from the also made the same observation that in a group or a crowd people can act a lot worse than they normally would , they can be more destructive , primitive erm and er more governed by their erm base emotions as it were , but equally in a crowd people can act better than they normally would . |
| 15 | I want to give it a bit of a rest now and I 'm trying to leave it as long as possible before I have it permed again . |
| 16 | Yes and you think you can move your fingers and you pull on them and you look down and I 'm trying to pull them now , but they just wo n't move . |
| 17 | I 've just put the fiver in the bottle neck and I 'm trying to get it to unfurl so it wo n't drop all the way down , when she groans . |
| 18 | And I 'm trying to get it through your arrogant skull that I 'm not in the market for a casual roll in the hay just because we happen to be sharing a villa for a few days ! ’ |
| 19 | I know and I 'm trying to pile them up now and let you see the patterns so these |
| 20 | ‘ I 've heard a funny story and I 'm ringing to ask you if there 's any truth in it . |
| 21 | You look the model for all virginal brides , and I 'm beginning to wish I 'd let that awful shroud remain in your case . ’ |
| 22 | And I 'm beginning to think she gave my mother an assumed name . ’ |
| 23 | In fact , the lawyers suggested something and I 'm beginning to think it 's a solution . |
| 24 | But it was very premature , and I 'm very I was very sorry that they 'd taken this step , but very , very pleased when I saw the result coming out , and I 'm do congratulate them on their common sense there that they were prepared to put the opting out aside and were looking seriously and sensibly into the tertiary college consultations . |
| 25 | I 'm not sure that I really knew her and I 'm left wishing I 'd tried harder . |
| 26 | Now , I have n't met this gentleman , but I 'm told that he is a great expert on the question of sound and the nature of sound and , and the problems by it , and I 've invited him into the studio and I 'm going to interview him . |
| 27 | The Pilot Survey showed some monitoring , further standardisation of the equipment was essential , mainly though , I 'm going to make sure all schools have got the same pipes and connector and I 'm going to give them some solutions to test because there was a bit of variation between schools , and there will be variation geographically , so I want to be able to have a measure of any error that will be involved as well . |
| 28 | And she 's marked it and I 'm going to give it back to you and talk to you about it . |
| 29 | And what happens in actual human situations which are what get me , and I 'm going to give you three and I guarantee their genuineness you will doubt them all I have not the least fear but I guarantee you their genuineness , they come from the records of Age Concern Scotland of which I am the president . |
| 30 | Now then will you go back to your own proper seats now and I 'm going to give you a number . |