Example sentences of "[conj] i be [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or I 'm taking my caravan off here right now . |
| 2 | He said : ‘ I was with him when the call came in to do the video so I was listening to the call , although I was minding my own business . |
| 3 | ‘ I see myself as a guardian , although I 'm making my own marks with a herb garden and wild flower garden . ’ |
| 4 | I am sorry if the Minister finds it difficult to understand that , when I say ’ personally ’ in this respect , I mean that I am expressing my view and the view of my party . |
| 5 | I quote from my account of it in a letter to Elizabeth , ten years later : it will be seen that I am answering her questions . |
| 6 | However , I do n't see myself as a jack of all trades ; instead I believe that I am broadening my range of expertise while remaining a commercial lawyer . ’ |
| 7 | ( Note here that I am doing my best to avoid speaking of conventional meaning , for I do not wish to beg the question yet against the second scenario . ) |
| 8 | Once again I apologise and assure everyone that I am doing my best to see this problem through . |
| 9 | ‘ Please believe me , this is my obstinacy — you are behaving honourably , honourably — I realise that I am jeopardising my chance of great happiness — but we know — both of us — there are times when the greatest danger has to be faced , the greatest risk taken because that small persistent voice will not allow us to escape our duty to ourselves . |
| 10 | ‘ My friends think that I am losing my mind . |
| 11 | Which may make her happy but means that I am losing my marbles , and Darius thinks I 've betrayed him , and Victor would swallow his cigar . |
| 12 | But if I claim that my religious experience is experience of God , then I am not simply talking about my own feelings but about a transcendent being that I am claiming my feelings to be feelings of . |
| 13 | I would n't say that I 'm seeing her faded . |
| 14 | ‘ The main thing is that I 'm enjoying my throwing again . ’ |
| 15 | You get to hear that I 'm sharing my house with a five-foot bombshell who can make a grown man go weak at a single glance , and you leap to the obvious conclusion . |
| 16 | You may well think indeed that I 'm wasting your time in calling this an assumption rather than recognising it as a plain fact . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's not that I mind wasting my time , it 's just that I like to know that I 'm wasting my time . ’ |
| 18 | So what I 'm actually saying is that I 'm making my objective an elephant , it 's too large i e if I wanted to eat an elephant , it 's too large an objective , but I could achieve it by what ? |
| 19 | ‘ Let's say that I 'm booking my holidays for January , ’ he replied . |
| 20 | So , it 's three units that I 'm giving my siblings . |
| 21 | I find that I 'm questioning my own authority , which makes me think even more . |
| 22 | I just wanted to know , inside my own head , that I was betraying his trust in me the way he 'd betrayed mine . |
| 23 | It was n't that I was doubting my faith or denying the reality of my becoming a Christian , but rather that , though I had genuinely believed ten years earlier , my commitment had been intertwined with the emotional comfort of sharing the beliefs and way of life of my family and certain friends . |
| 24 | It seemed the weather had beaten me and that I was wasting my time . |
| 25 | Wilson was quick to see how provocative such a development would be to the shipowners and refused to accept the post , though he confessed to have been " foolish enough to have allowed myself to be nominated and elected as honorary general manager , which meant that I was lending my name to an organization over which I had no control " . |
| 26 | I then told him that I was collecting her works and would like to buy them from him . |
| 27 | For instance , she never specifically said : ‘ Do n't blame your mother for everything ’ , but she made me understand that I was using my mother as an excuse for the fact that I was n't happy a lot of the time . |
| 28 | I was happy that I was having my own baby but sometimes I used to cry for nothing and I was easily upset . |
| 29 | Such as that I was trying to use the priesthood as an escape from my personal frustration , that I was dramatizing my own situation , that I was proud and vain , that my idea of Catholicism was up the creek . |
| 30 | With that she saw me off with an invitation to visit her the next day after school but that I was to tell my parents in case they were worried where I was . |