Example sentences of "[adv] i be [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was weathering the winter and believed that if there was anything in my lung , then at the very worst I was holding it at bay . |
| 2 | I assured him I was only on a romantic , misty-eyed mission , though secretly I was wishing I 'd sent the birthday card instead to Winston Place . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm still finding my way around , but mostly I 'm enjoying it . ’ |
| 4 | Right I am saying it 's people that I 've spoken to . |
| 5 | So why put him under the pressure , she sa cos I said , I want to know what the long-term effect of me taking him out of this is , because , effectively I 'm taking him out of something of the system , knowing , he 's going to miss that . |
| 6 | hang on I 'm reading it |
| 7 | I got in , and as he drove on I was watching his face , fascinated . |
| 8 | But now he was cuddling me and whispering in my ear with helpless pleading , " Hold me — hold me — " Suddenly I was hugging him with all my strength ; our bodies were strung tight together and we were kissing each other 's cheeks with little frantic kisses — we could n't bear to draw apart even enough to find each other 's lips . |
| 9 | That 's enough I 'm having my coffee and it 's hot . |
| 10 | ‘ I might have done , only I 'm expecting my brother to pin me , I do n't quite know when . |
| 11 | ‘ And I thought all would be well , if only I was to leave you both to yourselves ! ’ uttered Taggy crossly . |
| 12 | ’ And from , or nearly from , the outset there is the hint of a three-cornered relationship in which the future reader of the as yet unwritten Possessed joins novelist and narrator in a conspiracy to uphold the truth of the fiction : ‘ Altogether , when I describe conversations , even tête-à-tête conversations between two people — do n't worry : either I have hard facts , or perhaps I am inventing them myself — but in any case rest assured that everything is true . ’ |
| 13 | But perhaps I am shirking my responsibilities by being here , in the police force . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Perhaps I 'm doing you an injustice , ’ he said , swinging his legs over the side of the bed , his back to her . |
| 15 | Perhaps I 'm interpreting my role incorrectly . |
| 16 | Perhaps I 'm missing something , but I do n't see how swapping a huge Tory majority for a small one is a triumph for them and a disaster for us — a relief for them and a disappointment for us , perhaps . |
| 17 | And I 'm not sure that personally I 'm put my hands up and say that I 'd understand all the issues but I understand some of the basic principles and I 'm beginning to understand er some of the complexities of a a planning issue like this . |
| 18 | Unfortunately my driving licence has an old address on so I am sending you a copy of my vehicle registration form which does include my present address . |
| 19 | Quite by chance in collecting material for I have come across a cousin who is the communications and Public relations person at so I am to put them in touch with each other as the one in London has just had a letter from another in Vancouver trying to do family research . |
| 20 | So I am asking you to stay on in Rome until her recovery is complete . ’ |
| 21 | So I 'm telling you Mr that I 'm not unemployed because according to the Government figures I am not . |
| 22 | And so I 'm thinking it 's Sally says keeping moaning , go to the doctors . |
| 23 | So I expanded to thirty percent on the , they had a Metroset in those days , and I said , you know , this is not likely to work so I 'm sending it out getting handset phototype , so I did . |
| 24 | I 'm going to be still working in the City , of course , and so I 'm hoping we can live somewhere near London . ’ |
| 25 | He 's a Jack Russell so I 'm hoping he might do something about the rodent problem at Low Birk Hatt . |
| 26 | So I 'm wearing my birthday things , you know ? |
| 27 | because they do it to me so often so I 'm determined their not going to get away first . |
| 28 | So I 'm kicking him under the table ! |
| 29 | So I 'm cutting them all off , put them in some fresh water again . |
| 30 | So I 'm offering you a good wage , girl ! |