Example sentences of "[verb] i [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even worse , you would tell me about new poems you had started to write , and it was like a dagger in my heart when you described working on them without my help — though the real reason you had come back to see me was to labour over them with me , adding my suggestions and excisions in the margins in your minuscule script . |
| 2 | I quickly discovered that in her view it did n't have one , and that the only reason she had agreed to see me was to get this across once and for all . |
| 3 | The label on the key Mrs Tamm has given me is crumpled and blank . |
| 4 | What upset me was hearing the door locked . |
| 5 | His way of praising me was to say that I wrote as naturally as a hen laying eggs , or to remark , after he had destroyed a work with his criticisms , ‘ Everything I have not marked seems to me either good or excellent . |
| 6 | ‘ I had n't realised I was resuming hostilities ! ’ |
| 7 | I realized I was getting extremely slushy , and tried firmly to pull myself together . |
| 8 | Then I realized I was kneeling on a tarpaulin which someone had carefully placed over what could have been a small metal gate — or — the detached ‘ fun bumper ’ cow-catcher device from a small four-wheel-drive vehicle , say , a Shogun . |
| 9 | I realized I was lost when the sky suddenly lightened and I came out into a broad clearing . |
| 10 | I was just about to say I expect you could really make a mess if you tried and then I realized I was covered in and I 'd better shut up . |
| 11 | I realized I was sweating and I was breathing hard . |
| 12 | I also realized I was going to be OK . |
| 13 | I wondered what he wanted , so I did it ; and in the interval of the rehearsal he came and said he was suffering from nervous shock because the moment I started he realized I was doing exactly the contrary of all the things he had taught the orchestra . |
| 14 | Instinctively I turned away , and then I realized I was walking in the opposite direction , then running , almost tripping over my own two flat feet . |
| 15 | When I realized I was walking towards my father 's house I quickly changed my direction . |
| 16 | When I calmed down I realized I was defending an organization I refused to be in , though I had nothing good to say for the one I 'd left it for . |
| 17 | His head was full of sentences he was going to write to Hilary when he had the time to put pen to paper : I may remind you that I never asked you for a penny towards the summer gas bill … do you think I am made of stone ? … surely I deserve better consideration … who listened for hours when you had that disagreement at Bromley over Fortescue upstaging you in She Stoops to Conquer … have you forgotten that it was I , when your mother had her second stroke , who travelled with her in the ambulance and went back on the bus to collect her plaster replica of the Sacred Heart ? |
| 18 | I do n't think I am taking this line merely because I have been corrupted by a philosophical training and can not come off the fence . |
| 19 | ‘ Do you still think I am holding back on Surere ? ’ |
| 20 | You may think I am exaggerating but I am telling you the truth as clearly as I remember it and I remember it very clearly . |
| 21 | Somebody will think I am trying to abduct you … ’ |
| 22 | ‘ You do n't think I am going to wear that trash , do you ? ’ she had said when the great day came ; and wondered why he had ‘ got into one of his passionate tempers ’ ( poor little disappointed boy ! ) |
| 23 | ‘ I do n't think I am going to talk to Shaunagh again , ’ he said . |
| 24 | ‘ So do you think I am going to be afraid of Lennox Lewis ? |
| 25 | Do I think I am going to the bank at the same time as I say I am going to the bank ? |
| 26 | ‘ Then what makes you think I am going to do them ? ’ |
| 27 | No I 'm not , I do n't think I am gon na come down cos I 've been down so long anyway |
| 28 | Do you think I am lying ? |
| 29 | ‘ Do you think I am making a mistake ? ’ |
| 30 | I hope that you wo n't think I am rushing in , for I assure you that I am no fool , unlike certain other people . |