Example sentences of "i [be] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am , ’ said Linda , ‘ I been squashed all over and I ai n't got no breath left . |
| 2 | I been looking forward to this all day . |
| 3 | Nor have I been encouraged ever since to think there 's an exact science . |
| 4 | I been working here before some of 'em were born ! |
| 5 | ‘ The Captain and I are developing quite some expertise on the effects of explosives on metal . |
| 6 | My wife and I are looking forward to contact from your readers and eventually meeting some of our diving cousins from the ‘ Motherland ’ . |
| 7 | I had a WONDERFUL time and can only say that Malcolm and I are looking forward very much to many happy journeys in her at home and abroad in the future . |
| 8 | Tod and I are feeling so terrific that we 've joined a club and taken up tennis . |
| 9 | One thing that 's helping me through it , aside from my chats with Irene , is that Tod and I are feeling so damn good these days : physically . |
| 10 | That now you and I are forced apart , |
| 11 | ‘ Steve and I are going ashore . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ After the opera on Saturday night , you and I are going away together . |
| 13 | He 's convinced that my lover and I are waiting eagerly for that event , so he 's written a will that leaves me destitute . |
| 14 | I am thinking instead of antiracism as a much more limited project defined simply , even simplistically , by the desire to do away with racism . |
| 15 | I am thinking here of two distinct but linked operations which constitute racism as a discoursive practice . |
| 16 | I am thinking here of topics which still reflect our interests but might include more on , say , conservation , microscopy , taxonomic computing , and other new areas we might be moving towards . |
| 17 | You had to think of a method and the method was particularly difficult , I think , on the tank farm one where this is the sort of method that I am thinking here of how , how on earth am I going to build it on , on the hotel ? |
| 18 | I am thinking particularly of one of the Bushmen you knew who was so good at imitating a professor . |
| 19 | I am thinking particularly of repairs in schools and housing , which can generate some employment . |
| 20 | While he thinks about it , I am thinking too . |
| 21 | I am moving slowly now , as slowly as Summerchild moved when he came out of the darkness on that winter 's night . |
| 22 | It was published in America in 1974 , translated by Peter Kussi , who has revised his translation for the new edition of 1986 which I am discussing here . |
| 23 | What I am discussing here is the kind of recall which is part of studying , linking names to faces , remembering items on a shopping list or where you put your spectacles . |
| 24 | In parenthesis I should say that I am passing quickly over the significance of these four levels of understanding . |
| 25 | But I am jumping ahead of myself . |
| 26 | It was at last year 's parade that Elham gave him the idea when she said : ‘ I wish I could enjoy what I am experiencing here , but back in my mind there are too many innocent children left with no hopes and no future . |
| 27 | As I read , I am struck again by the laibon 's sense of being at the centre of the universe . |
| 28 | ‘ I am honoured even to be thought Inspector Rose 's Watson , ’ he said . |
| 29 | ‘ I am honoured indeed , Sir , ’ he said unctuously . |
| 30 | I have the sense to choose nutritious , healthy food , and I am lasting pretty well . |