Example sentences of "i [be] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , rather than binning them directly , I am passing them to you ( and your Convocation Office colleagues ) . |
| 2 | I am fondling her like a memory , in the way you stroke a cat : knowing it 's there , glad it 's purring , but letting thoughts wander like your fingers tickling the fur . |
| 3 | And , Father , he asked — the lord sheriff asked — that I should beg you to have Brother Cadfael informed also , and when the morning comes , if you permit , I am to lead him to the place , to meet the sheriff there . |
| 4 | I am bringing you to la Principessa . ’ |
| 5 | Back in Fr Butler 's home parish of St Lachtain in Freshford , Kilkenny , Fr Seamus Henry said : ‘ I have n't been in touch with John for some months but I am supporting him in a pastoral way . |
| 6 | That 's not what I am accusing you of . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I am to take you to the count . |
| 8 | After Titania 's quatrains — the most artificial verse-form in drama , presupposing as it does that the speaker has four lines already prepared , with rhymes , confident of not being interrupted — Bottom 's prose truly belongs to the world of unromantic everyday appetites : Bottom may have been ‘ translated ’ in shape , but nothing can elevate him to verse and romance — apart , ironically enough , from his role as Pyramus , out of whose Pistol-like doggerel he is ever ready to step in order to explain the play : ‘ She is to enter now , and I am to spy her through the wall . |
| 9 | ‘ I am using it in yarn-dyed form for things like Tencel/rayon chambray for jackets and dresses . |
| 10 | The Maulvi of course selects a formal Arabic name , but the celebration I am telling you about involves choosing a name to call the child by . |
| 11 | I am telling you about this … to remind you that one can try to give an impression of anguish without aiming straight at the historic Garden of Gethsemane |
| 12 | But Calatin 's banqueting hall and the house in the forest had wavered and grown dim — ‘ as if I am seeing it through water , ’ thought Fergus — and there had been a great heaviness within him so that it was difficult to breathe . |
| 13 | No problem Mr Prospect , I 'm glad you feel that way however I am seeing you in a fortnight 's time , have a chat with him between then and now and when I see you next week I 'll ta or whenever the time 'll be , I 'll take his telephone number from you then . |
| 14 | In which case , it seems worth asking why I am considering them at all within the limited confines of this book . |
| 15 | " Since you do not want the maiden , I am taking her for myself , gracious princess ! " he called . |
| 16 | I am taking him to prison in my country . ’ |
| 17 | I am taking it for granted that if you used the term , even in minutes and reports , you must have meant something by it . |
| 18 | I am taking you to the house of Robert Asshe , in Holborn . |
| 19 | ‘ I am taking you to the dressing-room where the ladies are gathered , they would be your best customers , I do n't doubt . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I am taking you to Jaén , ’ he announced after a few miles . |
| 21 | I am taking you to my home , into the very bosom of my family . |
| 22 | It is not because I am comparing it with petrols either , as I have driven diesels for 12 years or so . |
| 23 | ‘ Joseph Shill , I am arresting you for the murder of your wife , Maria Shill , at Windsor , on 19th December . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Miles Engado , I am arresting you for the — ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | If I was setting an exam paper for summer it would be something I would think about putting in not that I am setting it in case you think I had n't . |
| 27 | I AM FILLING you with Love |
| 28 | In the hope that this will be agreeable to you I am sending you by post two copies of the agreement we would wish you to sign . |
| 29 | ‘ Dear friends — how honoured I am to have you at my party for another year , a very , very special year in many ways . |
| 30 | They sleep in the same room with each other , and look beautiful when I am putting them to bed , jumping and hopping about quite naked , rejoicing in the freedom of no clothes . |