Example sentences of "[v-ing] i [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ones proving I wrote his poems for him ? |
| 2 | ‘ Are you suggesting I asked him to play slow music ? ’ she shot back , outraged . |
| 3 | Lord Aldington said : ‘ If you 're suggesting I knew they were behaving badly , then I did . |
| 4 | Are you suggesting I think she s immoral ? |
| 5 | Look , when you 've finished eating I think you 'd better come up to cabin 10 and get it sorted out . |
| 6 | What chance did I have , fond of Bernard as I was , but also , as I daresay you have concluded , and like so many , including I daresay yourself , bored ? |
| 7 | ‘ I was denying I had it . ’ |
| 8 | I cried after the girl had gone and he seeing my distress and I explaining I feared your anger he put his arms around my neck and comforted me and said he was sure his real mother could not but love her sister and believe she had acted for the best . |
| 9 | You wo n't be snoring I know it , you never do snore . |
| 10 | The mother is dying I hope she survives . |
| 11 | As the red roses remain such a vivid shade after pressing I think they balance the colour of the mount beautifully . |
| 12 | Winning the competition has made me realise while driving I have something to live up to . |
| 13 | ‘ Well , I 'm not sayin' I believe it , mind , but I want to know about that happy-birthday message . |
| 14 | Half the pregnant women on the estate would be swearing I fathered their children . |
| 15 | But I I du n no , I see it 's not once you 're u actually up here , looking I think it 's different when you 're up here looking back as when you 're over there looking up here . |
| 16 | When he was n't looking I poured mine on to the floor . |
| 17 | I 'm just like my mum , when it comes down to it , That 's why I quite admired Auntie Muriel , in a guarded sort of way I 'd think , I really should try to be like her , she was so content , nothing ever fazed her , I did n't want to be a farmer , understand , but I did n't want to be like mum either , tied to a feckless man , trying to keep him and me , having to hustle all the time to stop from sinking I fancied myself on a corporate asteroid , settling down with someone who would cherish me and buy me everything I wanted Carmen and her crew had the same ideas , even if they acted like they were going to be bad girls for ever , |
| 18 | I would like to express my government 's pleasure at seeing this important spiritual project taking place in Bophuthatswana , but in passing I feel I should also correct one or two points . |
| 19 | So again there are n't many things that do complete , swimming I think I far as I can see is the only one that does , but then again that depends on how you use the swimming , it , it just , just cos you bathes every week does n't necessarily mean that it does do it for you , it depends what you do , okay ? |
| 20 | People will stand there and they will clutch something , you see their knuckles are white you know and these sort of things erm or they 'll have their notes you know here , and let's be honest about it yeah I can remember when I started training I think you know you used to cling to your notes a three feet flipchart , you know what ca n't you see ? |
| 21 | The first time we made love , I started out believing I hated you , but when we … by the end I knew I did n't really , and that I loved you . |
| 22 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 23 | And he was going I know you do n't mind Sheila he said , I 'm gon na go , I 'm going to Spain for holiday . |
| 24 | The way things were going I thought it was time I had a slit trench to dive into . |
| 25 | What are we going I mean we we 've heard also I 'm changing the subject now because that was the the sort of political answer I 'd expect and er I suppose until I get somebody else come on and say he 's talking absolute whatever er I mean I think it is down to the people who live and work with the school . |
| 26 | I 'm going I told you they said Janice would give me lessons did n't I ? |
| 27 | erm I ca n't hear for Dorothy 's car , what did you say ? is he going I think I 'd better I said thank you for the cake |
| 28 | It 's not going I think it is . |
| 29 | Well I 'm going I expect he 'll . |
| 30 | so she said I , I went in and I said to Geraldine I 'm going I owe you any bloody money take the bugger out me wages , she says I ai n't having people that I like being stabbed like that by people like that , she said she ai n't worth the salt of the earth , she 's the salt of the earth she said with people like that pointing to Jenny and Jane , no way , she said and I 'm going with my mates , I turned round and the next thing Janet and Janet and Barbara in there , when we got up the pub at twelve o'clock , course we were all having sandwiches me and Pam got the , me and er Barb got there , then Pam come in then a few more come and erm then the plumber and all that come in with them and I said oh girls we never clocked out , so I said oh well I 'm gon na have to take my key back to Steve , burst out laughing , so I said oh no I said why do n't we have a key cracking competition so of course that 's what we did we all took our keys out of our bag and we went ready for she 's a jolly good ready , steady , fellow , for she 's go and we cracked these ruddy keys and shoved them up in the air |