Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [verb] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 He has several businesses in the district — a bobbin mill , a gunpowder factory , a cotton mill , and more — and what they have in common is that the people — usually women and children — who are unfortunate enough to be employed in them are driven as cruelly as possible and paid as little as possible .
2 I be relaxing now just when I yawn .
3 When not in use they my be tidied away forward and secured to the shroud anchorages .
4 Christ almighty I 'm trying as hard as I can !
5 Mr Faith adds : ‘ I 'm thinking ahead so that in 25 years ' time my daughter will say to her children ‘ Was n't grandad clever ?
6 what I 'm trying to help you practise , cos we 're not , we 're very good at asking closed questions in conversations but do n't very often recognize , but you know , we , we we we , we 'll zip backwards and forwards , and that 's okay , but I want you to do consciously is know what type of questions you 're asking because you can sometimes be hitting a brick wall and thinking I 'm getting anywhere here and it 's because you 're asking too many closed questions .
7 It 's dragging on , it 's been dragging on for a year , but I 'm getting there slowly and I feel a lot more confident than last time .
8 As a result of that I 'm learning more now than I ever have , even though I have less time in which to do so . ’
9 That but anyway that does n't ha hang on that that does n't approve what you 're saying , what I 'm saying as far as English is concerned that 's assessed underneath the attainment target writing
10 I always seem to get the wrong results even though I 'm working as hard as possible .
11 ‘ Well , considering I 'm working as hard as I am with all the stress involved , I think I 'm probably very fit . ’
12 Well that 's as far as I want to go with this , this particular topic , erm as is my practice I 'm ending now so that we can have questions .
13 I 'm waiting as patiently as I can but it 's getting a pain now .
14 And I 'm going as slow as I can go and I 'm just taking everything in , and I 'm unwinding , I 'm relaxing mentally and physically as I do it because that 's what I feel I need at the moment , and having that ability is good .
15 I 'm going as fast as I can , ’ cried Endill .
16 I 'm going as fast as I can . ’
17 It caught me with my hand I were going so well and all of a sudden
18 The men followed them and within a few moments lord Hulton and I were standing there just as before watching the tiny figures on the skyline , listening to the distant " Haow , haow ! "
19 Secondly , he must be ‘ absolutely assured that the High Command was in a position to furnish us with the necessary men and material for the continuance of the offensive , and that not by driblets , but on a large scale ’ Thirdly , the campaign should be halted the moment ‘ we ourselves were losing more heavily and becoming exhausted more rapidly than the enemy ’ .
20 But I was trembling so badly that it shook the knife out of my skin , and I could move again .
21 I was stopped all right but it was n't as simple as poor McQuaid made out .
22 I followed him down from 2,000 feet — put carb heat on — I was descending as quickly as the helicopter ; we managed to keep him visual .
23 I 've been , I was thinking today actually when I was walking up the road and I thought oh the is shut again .
24 I was received very cordially and given some names and phone numbers .
25 Meanwhile I noticed my friends paddling by smiling , laughing and waving at me as they obviously did not realise why I was screaming as loud as I possibly could .
26 My parents often mentioned their remorse , I was speaking so well before we went to the Russian Orthodox Easter Service .
27 I was sweating now even though it was getting cooler .
28 Fey was something they would tell me I had just invented , but it is something that never left me during the entire period I was an Instructor and sadly I was to learn very shortly after he left Kinloss that he did not survive very long on the squadron that he joined .
29 I did n't stay there long ; I was told very forcibly that the job had to be done and to get the hell out of his cabin .
30 I was going as carefully as I could because I had a 25-second cushion over Berger so I was able to slow down a bit and the pain eased .
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