Example sentences of "i am [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ I am to take you to the count . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I am taking you to the house of Robert Asshe , in Holborn . |
| 5 | ‘ I am taking you to the dressing-room where the ladies are gathered , they would be your best customers , I do n't doubt . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Joseph Shill , I am arresting you for the murder of your wife , Maria Shill , at Windsor , on 19th December . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Miles Engado , I am arresting you for the — ’ |
| 8 | However , at this moment I am addressing myself to the question of motive . |
| 9 | ‘ I am doing nothing of the sort . |
| 10 | ‘ They pay me , ’ he says , before qualifying his statement : ‘ I am doing it for the love of my art . |
| 11 | I am trailing them along the line of their tea-breaks and their modest working lunches of packet soup followed by something you eat with mustard . |
| 12 | I am leading you along the path I had to tread to find the most suitable disease , for only in this way can I be sure that the reader understands the nature of the ultimate decision and the ludicrousness of any attempt to confuse it with my own stick and gloves or any prior misinformation regarding the state of my own health . |
| 13 | He thinks that I am selling her for the night . |