Example sentences of "[v-ing] and i [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's why I 'm so thankful that I 'm on the reading and that I like sewing , I like walking and I 've made some very nice friends within easy walking distance , I can go out and have a coffee with them , because I , while I 'm recovering from the agony 's of from the finance |
| 2 | Erm and it 's a bit like timekeeping I mean they they 've got their own system now for evaluating how good they are at time keeping and I think the erm the figure they try and hit is about ninety five percent is n't it of trains arriving on time . |
| 3 | So there 's an example of where it 's happening and I hope it will happen over the whole field . |
| 4 | Right you have to come I think the basis of this evening was to get people to come along and put there points of view and to say what 's happening and what is n't happening and I think we can take that take that away and considerate it yes I mean I I think the board or the management committee will be happy to meet with people to discuss the use of the theatre er what it 's used for what might what the unhappiness is if there is unhappiness and the positive and the positive as well as the negative points yes . |
| 5 | Your party , your other , never mind , and when that happens you get poaching and I 've always said , if you treat your membership properly they 'll stay with you , but you 've also got to remember that the union is in dire financial straits , or so it tells us . |
| 6 | Look , I 'm dying and I do n't know how . |
| 7 | Stein said yesterday : ‘ Mr Beller told me told that if things were not sorted out by tomorrow , the company would cease trading and I do really fear that this is the end . |
| 8 | Stein said yesterday : ‘ Mr Beller told me if things were not sorted out by tomorrow the company would cease trading and I do really fear this is the end . |
| 9 | ‘ If I 'm driving and I see someone commit an offence or something a bit dodgy I always make a mental note , ’ he said . |
| 10 | ‘ If I 'm driving and I see someone commit an offence or something a bit dodgy I always make a mental note , ’ he said . |
| 11 | Then she breathes out and gives a real smile — one of those big things that brightens her face like a starburst — and I see she 's been frightened , and I sigh , and suddenly I 've got a lump in my throat and I 'm trembling and I do n't think I can move away from this wall . |
| 12 | I smoked for twenty seven years , and erm I 'm getting on to a year now since I stopped smoking and I feel a lot calmer , I hated being a victim to cigarettes ! |
| 13 | At her parents home in Parkgate , The Grange , she said : ‘ I do n't intend to start smoking and I do n't like being in the company of people who smoke , especially when we are on holiday abroad and people smoke at the table . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I did n't know she was smoking and I do n't know where she was getting the money from , ’ said her mother . |
| 15 | But I found at Herald and Post the actual reporters have only been meeting and I 've been sending all the erm all the paper work to Harlow and Bishop 's Stortford , but they 're just sort of the erm , the advertising people so erm , that 's why we 've not had anything in the papers . |
| 16 | He did eighty-two years of caddying and I think he was perhaps the oldest caddie still working before he finally packed it in . |
| 17 | Well they could address their letters to myself Councillor David Poole or Councillor Stuart Argyle to the Council House erm the suggestion you know er their the thoughts the thoughts on this what er they could er erm help us in our campaign and also about the leaf stem as well if they want to write to me at the Council House suggesting and I mean proper places to where it should go because that 's really up to County Council but er at least if I had some suggestions we can pass them over to the County Council where where it could go . |
| 18 | I was drawing and I read and and I played with toys and I read this game |
| 19 | he gave me a number to phone and I 've tried phoning and I 've not had a response , but I 'll keep trying |
| 20 | Erm it does n't give you a headache it helps to maybe cure a headache , and it 's just nice smelling and I think if you were just to even with your partners or with friends even just massage somebody 's hands or massage somebody 's feet if you do n't make them scream while you 're doing it . |
| 21 | ‘ I have 12 or 13 players who can hold their own with the best in the League but injuries would leave me struggling and I know it . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I notice the difference on those occasions when it is raining and I wear a hat . |
| 24 | it 's raining and I call it nice |
| 25 | We know from the housing benefit system that there is a backlog of cases , I think hundred and a , quite a considerable number of people of where people are having problems producing wage receipts and evidence of income now and one dreads to think of the burden that will be putting on the letting section by erm inventing yet another system o of this kind erm I think people we know that people are wary already of applying for benefits because of means testing and I think that there 's that it would simply discourage people who really are in need from coming forward . |
| 26 | I say I 'm going and I go . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ At the moment , Clive and Trevor have got a good pattern going and I do n't think playing three strikers figures in the manager 's plans . ’ |
| 28 | should , should attract visitors and things should be going and I do n't care how much |
| 29 | ‘ They have lost confidence , but Martin is just the player who can get them going and I think you will see their true character soon . |
| 30 | I 'm very active in the Party in Manchester and er would support the union and the region er , as a constituency er constituency member and I , you know , spend hours every week trying to ke keep this , keep the Party in Manchester going and I think that what we 've actually got , what we 're seeing inside the Parliamentary Party , are a number of people who seem to have forgotten who they 're supposed to be representing . |