Example sentences of "i be [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ — and fact three , ’ she continued , ‘ is that , whatever you say or do , Peter and I are engaged and will remain engaged until we decide otherwise . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I am thinking that if all the Jews in the world come to the island it would into the water sink , ja ? ’ |
| 3 | There is nothing that the dog could do that could express the difference between the two thoughts : ‘ My master is at the door ’ and ‘ I am thinking that my master is at the door ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ I am thinking that maybe these gentlemen have been to one English Wine Shop , ’ said Dr Haidar , speaking in that slightly sanctimonious tone that Muslims sometimes adopt when discussing alcohol . |
| 5 | ‘ I am implying that it 's unnatural , and I want you to talk to your father . |
| 6 | Positive tests can be attributed to feedstuffs or medication , but Martin Pipe emphasised : ‘ I am implying that that is not the case . |
| 7 | At the time of writing I am involved , as I mentioned , in some surveys of visitors to the British Museum and I am hoping that we shall be able to get some schools who had had organized visits to the museum , to obtain essays about the visit from the children involved . |
| 8 | I am hoping that ‘ Oh Brother ’ or ‘ Teach In ’ will be about the ribber in the not too distant future ! |
| 9 | er and of course I 've known Walter for years but I do n't know his wife , I 've never met his wife and of course not being able to get out into the street now , I should get out for about two years after I lost my husband and then I got this er awful pain nobody knows unless they have it er this arthritis in my knees , you see , and erm and then I found that it was too much for me to er otherwise I used to walk up to the post box road and I used to count the steps , three hundred and something steps there and three hundred and something back , you see , and to the front door , you see , but I , I ca n't do it now but I have with help and I went out last year with er Mrs and er twice we went to Dulwich which I enjoyed and so did she and the last time we went to and er we had our lunch and we went to see my cousins at West Suffolk and and , and then came home again , you see , and that 's the only time I went out last year and usually I used to go to for a day and I am hoping that if I , I am hoping , well you can only hope , that I might perhaps go so out one Sunday , once , just once in the , you see , because er , th that 's when when you 're old you 've got to keep , you 've got to hope for something |
| 10 | ‘ Perhaps I am hoping that temper will sustain you through this ordeal . |
| 11 | I am hoping that you will observe that I have fetched in enough buckets of coal this afternoon to spare you having to carry them in tomorrow . |
| 12 | I am hoping that we will be able to use two of the students from the Course to be facilitators of these . |
| 13 | ‘ I have to find the money myself and they told me that the wackier the ideas , the better the response so I am hoping that my ideas come off . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I am hoping that the Labour Group leader comes back and says : ‘ Prove it . ’ |
| 15 | This means that there will be no restriction on the number of places available and I am hoping that as many parents as possible will come and so help to make a real occasion of it . |
| 16 | By saying this , I am accepting that Geraldine herself may well have engineered the engagement . |
| 17 | But then I might have a passenger whose company I am enjoying and do not want the intrusion . |
| 18 | ‘ I am honoured that you feel you can talk so freely in my presence , Chieh Hsia . ’ |
| 19 | I am baffled as to why ‘ New Britons ’ — particularly those ‘ too young to be yet imbued with the wisdom that comes with age ’ should be singled out . |
| 20 | The monitors alone are so loud that I am baffled as to how the crew operate without some type of semaphore system . |
| 21 | Similarly , by copy of this letter I am advising and that , sadly , no last minute places have become available . |
| 22 | I am learning that to narrow a woman 's focus and to make her faceless , as the fog does every day , turns her despite herself against the things she loves best . |
| 23 | The civilians appeared to be very interested in the kilt that I am wearing and , of course , the pipes seem to fascinate them . |
| 24 | I am recommending that we take her to the hospital immediately . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Methinks I am to be your chaperon — which means , I suppose , that I am to see that you conduct yourself properly and are accompanied suitably whenever you leave these apartments . |
| 26 | The response was overwhelming and I was able to raise over £1,000 which was added to other monies raised by the branch of J Sainsbury 's plc where I am employed and we were able to hand over to Terry Scott a cheque for £10,000 . |
| 27 | In the dreams I am sinking or searching or sacrificing . |
| 28 | ‘ If I am not successful in finding what I am looking for I shall return and tell you . ’ |
| 29 | So I said , ‘ Maria , I am experimenting and when I say ‘ experiment ’ I mean I want to see how it presents itself . |
| 30 | In conclusion , I am advocating that , as the whole-school approach grows in popularity as a positive response to children with special educational needs , it is important that schools , as organisations , and teachers , as individuals , reject the segregationist policy towards disruptive pupils which might appeal to some teachers and government policy makers . |