Example sentences of "i [be] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Understandable had I been writing this in August , but as it is still March it looks as if we are in for another drought this summer . |
| 2 | Have I been breaking that ? |
| 3 | How long had I been doing this without a break ? |
| 4 | ‘ Only I been sufferin' 'orrible suspicions about endin' up gettin' me own throat cut . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ And how have I been spending this summer ? |
| 6 | Good gracious , ’ she breathed , ‘ if you really do believe that Rob and I are conducting some sultry little affair , do you think that either of us would be fool enough to use an office which adjoins yours ? ’ |
| 7 | The only problem is — Francisco and I are buying this villa from Mum and Dad . |
| 8 | Mrs Gracie and I are leaving those poor children — there is nothing we can do for them , after all — and going back to her house in Highbury . |
| 9 | ‘ Tatum and I are having marital problems , just as many other married couples do , ’ McEnroe said in a statement . |
| 10 | Eventually everyone leaves the room to shower and drink coffee and do all things that people usually do after intercourse — communally in this case — and Samantha and I are left alone . |
| 11 | It is for that very reason that I am moving this motion today as it gives us the opportunity to implement the rules of the union and at the same time would enable us to put into position , people who would be able to do all those things that are necessary to achieve what we require , recruitment , organization , paperwork , back-up service to full-time officials . |
| 12 | Speaking at Bramshott Common , while the TV crew were filming the reconstruction , Sergeant Nickol said : ‘ I am hoping this programme will bring forward something which we can positively work on . ’ |
| 13 | Mr Bradburn said yesterday : ‘ I am hoping this will die a death . |
| 14 | I am hoping this will improve my grasp of the key issues so that I can make a more direct contribution on this front in future . |
| 15 | It 's for him that I am accepting this honour . |
| 16 | At last I am holding six beautiful tickets , three for reservations , all meticulously written on . |
| 17 | He explained that his wife was a permanent invalid , unable to come to church , but said he : ‘ Since the day we got married we have shared everything we had and I am bringing this home to give to her . ’ ) |
| 18 | I am enjoying this trip . |
| 19 | I can not recall actually thinking to myself ‘ I am enjoying this . ’ |
| 20 | Just as I am drawing his attention to the point and beginning what I know will be a long and wearying discussion , Mirsal , who has been fighting the cabman about his fare outside , appears and lets loose such a torrent of thumbnail word portraits of the clerk 's family that , used as I am to his powers in this respect , I am struck dumb with admiration . |
| 21 | I am struck all of a heap . |
| 22 | Re-reading the paper which formed the background to this presentation , I am struck most of all by the difficulties there are in moving from a statement in critique — containing arguments about the weaknesses in our current models of design understanding , such as our failure to be able to define satisfactorily either design phenomena or design activity or to assert powerfully enough , and at the right levels , design 's wider social significance — to positive statements ; to being able to say this is the phenomena with which design is concerned , this is the nature of design activity , this , therefore , is the significance of design — epistemologically , socially , and practically . |
| 23 | In the past two weeks he has had to scrummage against Scotland 's World Cup looseheads , David Sole and David Milne : ‘ They certainly got the better of me but I like to think that I am learning all the time and that that will lead to my improvement ’ . |
| 24 | " I enjoy playing in Europe and still feel that I am learning all the time . |
| 25 | I am learning all the time and I feel I am ready to hit the big time . ’ |
| 26 | WHAT HAPPENS IF I AM ILL , HAVE AN ACCIDENT OR I AM MADE REDUNDANT ? |
| 27 | Q What happens if I am ill , have an accident or I am made redundant ? |
| 28 | ‘ I have n't actually fixed a time when I will return , it just depends when I am made some offers . ’ |
| 29 | The following day , in a temperature down around — 2O°C ( — -4°F ) , I am wearing loop-stitch socks and Lundhags , and he is wearing reindeer skin boots and grass . |
| 30 | I thought you would be interested to see some of the questions raised by Members so far , and I am enclosing these and the responses to them at this current stage of our thinking . |