Example sentences of "[pers pn] [v-ing] [conj] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 2 | We are lying here as though we had a chance of enjoying a quiet time Am I waiting until I become a little older ? |
| 3 | What am I wearing as I pine for the future , |
| 4 | When I say , ‘ Now I see it as a duck ’ , am I saying that I have a certain Lockean visual sensation — that is , that the figure appears to me , in a non-concept-dependent sense of ‘ appears ’ , in a certain way — which I have found I always have when I am led by the accompanying text to apply the figure in a certain way ? |
| 5 | He did n't know ‘ what statement Mr. Gibbon had made to the other gentlemen or what reasoning they could have employed so as to sign a paper declaring the fact of urinous vomiting to be utterly impossible — here I must be at issue with them believing as I do … from my little physiological knowledge , that vomiting of urine for 26 weeks is by no means impossible … ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | I said and there 's there 's me panicking like I said I said I 'm going grey as it is now I said without worrying about |
| 8 | Realistically , I 've been applying for the sort of job that will pay me enough money to keep me going when I retire . |
| 9 | It 's the thought of you that keeps me going when I begin to flag or feel a bit faint-hearted … |
| 10 | ‘ It took virtually the whole of my grandmother 's legacy to buy out the lease — all I 've got left is a bit to keep me going until I start to show a profit . |
| 11 | ‘ Are you suggesting that I 've come to — ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I do n't notice you laughing when I have to go away for the night . |
| 13 | Or are you sulking because I rejected you ? ’ |
| 14 | I heard you listening and I thought oh she 'll probably wan na tell me if there 's anything , it 's that the warmer airstream or something . |
| 15 | And then when I went up home , I 'd have took them out and put them in the fridge and she says what are you doing and I says well that 's a couple of day 's meat for you and she says no no take that off home , take that off home , I 've and I says no that 'll do you . |
| 16 | ‘ What were you saying when I came in ? ’ she said . |
| 17 | Oh well Derek , there 's a chance still mate , if we can stop them pegging but I think the chances of stopping them pegging three is a bit remote ! |
| 18 | There was much competition during the war as to who could come up with the best bomb story , and my mother had a great time telling this one to all the aunties , especially as it was only due to her nagging that I had n't been in my bed at the time . |
| 19 | I was going to try the door , but I could hear him snoring before I touched the handle , so I turned and went to the bathroom . |
| 20 | There was only one occasion when , either preoccupied or through sheer inattentiveness , I found him rising before I had made preparations to follow . |
| 21 | But I remembered her asking whether I did n't go crazy on my own at The Pightle . |
| 22 | I thought when I was looking at her talking and I thought , you 're a school mistress . |
| 23 | I often see him watching as I go by . |
| 24 | I heard him leaving because I had n't been in bed very long , and I heard him coming back because I had a bit of indigestion and I could n't sleep . ’ |
| 25 | Well th maybe I should look at it seeing as I missed it . |
| 26 | I still want to get it going but I do n't want to put a double shift onto unless I have to . |
| 27 | Once I get on to a good thing I keep it going until I run out of luck . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've often seen it falling when I 've come home through a raid , from that Anti Aircraft gun . |
| 29 | I just phoned up Leeds for tickets for the Arse game on 24th August , and they tell me that ‘ Tickets will only be available for members ’ , and here 's me thinking that I do n't need to bother with a premier / membership card this year to get my tickets . |
| 30 | It keeps me thinking and I know I 'm going to enjoy the different style . ’ |