Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] [conj] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Muddy Waters was using them when I started working with him . |
| 2 | Did I do it for her or to release the frustration that 's been eating me since I left Deptford ? |
| 3 | He said : ‘ I am very grateful to Wedgwood for sponsoring me and I have found the course work to be very valuable in relation to my job . |
| 4 | Tremayne lent me his Volvo to go to the boatyard in the morning , reminding me before I set off that it was the day of the awards dinner at which he was to be honoured . |
| 5 | If the floor needs washing , okay , I wo n't wash it , but I know it needs washing and it 'll go on nagging me until I 've washed it — so you ca n't win really . |
| 6 | It 's terrible but I find I do exactly the same with my children now : they come in from school and everything is dropped and I say ‘ pick them up ’ and I try to stop nagging them because I remember how much I hated it . |
| 7 | There was a new peg in place and Martin tied onto it , protecting me as I downclimbed . |
| 8 | I 'll be hassling them when I get there … believe me ! ! ! |
| 9 | I am employing you because I believe you will do a first-class job . |
| 10 | ‘ Because New York were giving me hell about employing you and I 've gone out on a limb . |
| 11 | Well , I think he should have a letter anyway , definitely thanking him cos I mean he did like |
| 12 | Yes well I think I told him a wrong , you see , there were two there there are two ways of tackling it and I do n't think the way I told him is what they want for the examination purposes , at all ! |
| 13 | So , she starts quizzing me and I start nattering on about the bloody Brontes — I think Mrs Fleming must 've been really intelligent when she was young , honest-to-god she was firing them at me faster than Bamber Gascoigne , she says to me : ‘ And tell me , Karen , how are you going to deal with the themes of Repressed Sexuality in the Brontes ' work ? ’ |
| 14 | I have also had three two-hour sessions at the job agency which has the training facility , and , having taken down some scribbled notes and typed them up have gone back over it all to improve my notes , so that I can continue re-reading them till I improve my knowledge . |
| 15 | ‘ Only one thing is certain in this life — I shall love you , and want you , and keep on wanting you until I die . ’ |
| 16 | I was sitting there loving it until I uttered the most embarrassing words of my life . |
| 17 | ‘ I was saving it until I had time , ’ Merrill retorted , stung by this apparent criticism of her work . |
| 18 | Well I I 'm I think that er I 'm less worried about dating it cos I think it actually quite important to date it , like the war memorial ground and actually fairly closely although it 's not actually dated to the end of the war , I mean it was nineteen fifty two when it was established . |
| 19 | Erm the only thing that occurred to me I just wondered if she knew somebody who had a dearly loved dog that , did n't want to train it but you know she could perhaps just take along for the joy of running it and training it but I think part of the pleasure is the reflected glory you know it 's my dog |
| 20 | ‘ Salesman did tell me sumpin' about a kid from here writing it but I forgot . |
| 21 | Leading me where I have always wanted to go yet never known how . |
| 22 | I like the other people fixing them because I like having to come round here . |
| 23 | wo n't be paying you until I 've got some money , |
| 24 | ‘ I suppose Jonas was expecting me when I arrived — that 's why he did n't seem surprised . ’ |
| 25 | We all liked wearing them so I made everybody one in flowery silk . ’ |
| 26 | As I had mistakenly left my only pair of worn-in boots in Salford — I had been wearing them when I packed the kit , and changed into shoes to travel to North Africa — I now had blisters under the balls of both feet and another running from the top of my left heel right under the foot . |
| 27 | Yeah I understand it li like when you 're teaching me but I do n't think I I I understood you know how you were doing it . |
| 28 | I found that it was vital to keep them under water when moving them after I had experienced problems with eggs which were accidentally exposed to air which probably dried them out . |
| 29 | Matey will be back soon , and — oh , what would she say to me for seducing you as I did ? |
| 30 | And , I was expecting you and I took a a bag full of clothes just to try |