Example sentences of "i [verb] [adv prt] [v-ing] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | I mean I 've been doing it for such a long time now it 's important to me to go on doing it , but then that might be rather like it 's important for you to go on doing physics , is n't it ? |
2 | All I do know for sure is that I woke up loving him . |
3 | I did n't get caught on somebody coming , when I came out saying who did you vote for ? |
4 | That 's basically how I came about doing it . |
5 | So why do I carry on jiggling my earrings and cleavage simultaneously whenever an editorial planning meeting gets rough ? |
6 | She is already in her nightdress , and I stand up holding my toothbrush like I 've found the present I forgot to give her . |
7 | Thrush Green was an ideal place to play , and I set about moving my dolls along their allotted paths during the next few years . |
8 | Linking the TriAxis up to a Boogie Fifty/Fifty power amp and ART Multiverb Alpha to build a simple MIDI rig ( the same setup as for last month 's Marshall JMP-1 review ) , I set about organising myself a set of sounds . |
9 | Idomeneo was not an opera which I know analytically , so I set about studying its overall character and moods , as well as its tonal plan and shape/form . |
10 | During Nigel 's second period in hospital , in between the times I spent there , I set about arranging his funeral . |
11 | I hung around deciding what to do and then some people came off the boat . |
12 | I wake up hating myself and fabricating reasons why I 've had so little sleep — I was woken in the middle of the night by a phone call , my cat kept jumping on my bed all night . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | No I quite agree , I also agree with the lady who said that one of the important things is that you like the person , I well speaking from experience , I started out liking somebody |
15 | and while I started off thinking I might finish up better than I started |
16 | After the deconstruction of my eidetic capability , Gyggle had insisted that I go on seeing him . |
17 | If I go on denying it they 'll all wag their fingers and say ‘ Aha ’ and tell me I protest too much . |
18 | Are there in fact any distribution rights or can any library distribute any title , and if there are distribution rights how would I go about obtaining them ? |
19 | How do I go about making it into a cheese ? |
20 | ‘ How do I go about finding somebody here ? ’ |
21 | If so , how could I go about finding it ? |
22 | But on the other hand , I was furious ; I thought : this is ridiculous , why should n't I go out wearing what I want without getting hassle ? |
23 | , but erm , and I notice that quite often the shelves would be half empty , came here , I would stop on the way back from the school the bank and the butcher 's and the paper shop over the road I could come in quarter to nine and I 'm , you know , I , I was done and I said to my Arnold they 're not going to sell much unless they put some money into filling the shelves surely Spa will back them , and he said I keep on telling them that I keep on saying to them if you do n't put the goods there on display people are going to go over the road to Lipton 's and and |
24 | The tape like I keep on doing it wrong . |
25 | I keep on changing it hoping to spark something off , but sometimes it 's not ability but competitive spirit that gets you results . |
26 | ‘ Look , ’ I said , ‘ I do see your point , and I 'm not trying to talk down to you , but if I went round telling you , or any other patient , their temperatures my bosses would kill me . |
27 | I felt as if someone had stuck a knife into me — I started to hate Africa then and I went on hating it — I began to hate a lot of things I had n't minded before , when I was happy . |
28 | So I clung to him through the poetry I went on helping him to write . |
29 | And I went on buying them , three pairs a year . |
30 | But as I went on reading I found that was n't what Clem was telling me at all . ’ |