Example sentences of "i [be] [verb] you " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am thinking you are not understanding the management of these people . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I am hoping you 'll agree to an interview for Der Spiegel . |
| 3 | ‘ I am holding you directly responsible for the decline in his health . |
| 4 | I am bringing you to la Principessa . ’ |
| 5 | I am inviting you to consider some of the steps which have been developed to promote the level and quantity of language skills which are needed to sustain and develop the social infrastructure in relation to the public services in a multi-lingual Britain . |
| 6 | A way round this hearsay evidence is for the officer to say ‘ The passenger Mr. Jones says he is not licensed to drive this car so I am reporting you ( the defendant ) for quitting a vehicle ’ etc . |
| 7 | That 's not what I am accusing you of . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ But , oh , Tilly … you do n't know how glad I am to see you . ’ |
| 9 | I ca n't tell you how pleased I am to see you ! |
| 10 | ‘ I was just thinking how glad I am to see you , ’ she said candidly . |
| 11 | ‘ I am to take you to the count . |
| 12 | Not that I am encouraging you , mind . |
| 13 | But I am forbidding you ever to attend another of those meetings . |
| 14 | A Firstly , I am assuming you have not damaged it in any way ? |
| 15 | ‘ You wonder why I am warning you , instead of rounding you all up ? |
| 16 | ‘ They like to say , death I am eating you . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | You want me to tell you something and I am telling you something . |
| 19 | ‘ I am telling you to shut up ! ’ the Trunchbull roared . |
| 20 | ‘ I am telling you the truth , Headmistress , ’ she said . |
| 21 | ‘ I ca n't think why I am telling you all this , ’ she said , embarrassed . |
| 22 | You may think I am exaggerating but I am telling you the truth as clearly as I remember it and I remember it very clearly . |
| 23 | They sent me to Cambridge for a couple of terms — that 's where I first realized I must run — I do n't want to blaspheme about one of your famous institutions so I sha n't tell you the name of my college though you 're longing to know — the girls in their bed-sitters , the cocoa-drinking , the tittle-tattle , the atmosphere of heartiness or domesticity in the combination-room — But , my dear , it must be getting late and here I am telling you things that you know as well as I do . ’ |
| 24 | 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 |
| 25 | ‘ I am telling you . |
| 26 | The blood , the gaping holes , the bone sticking out of flesh , the stench of burst intestines — I am telling you this only because the effect on me , a boy who had never seen even a peacefully dead body before that day , was one I should never have predicted . |
| 27 | Ellen 's is a true story ; perhaps it is even the reason why I am telling you Flaubert 's story instead . |
| 28 | ‘ That also is why I am telling you this . |
| 29 | ‘ I do n't know why I am telling you all this . ’ |
| 30 | I am telling you that last night I wanted you . |