Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [verb] [pron] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The ‘ bad ’ characters in any story grab attention more easily than the ‘ good ’ because in them are realised our own temptations and foul qualities which we suppress in our daily lives . |
2 | I am enjoying my own attention ; a carpenter in a large mustard sweater , and a sweet-faced young lad with glasses . |
3 | I am getting my own way as usual . |
4 | From what you said , I did n't think that you were very settled , so I am sending you this note via Mum — I suppose you may go home to see the new baby , anyway ? |
5 | From an enemy I am becoming my own friend . |
6 | Now , I am discarding my former life . |
7 | The wind drops slightly as I am making myself another cup of tea and I like the idea of going out to watch the sun go down . |
8 | ‘ I have full responsibility for fund-raising and publicity and because I took on a new post it means I am introducing my own ideas in consultation with the directors and chairman . |
9 | ‘ No , I 've been all over the North , so I 'm leaving it this time . ’ |
10 | I 'm eating lots more fruit and I love fish , I love fish as well . |
11 | I I 'm buying my own race track ! |
12 | Well , I 'm happy to do that ; in fact I 'm seeing her this afternoon , and I 'll mention it . |
13 | And I 'm giving you this ultimatum : tomorrow night I come into this bed and if you try to stop me , you 'll end up next door for the remainder of your days . ’ |
14 | Remember , I 'm giving you this money because he has been a good boy . |
15 | I 'm forgetting everything these days , or is it nights , you can never tell stuck in these corridors . ’ |
16 | ‘ I 'm to tell you that dinner will be at eight , ’ Wendy passed the message cheerily . |
17 | I 'm bidding them all farewell . |
18 | You know I 'm debriefing you this afternoon ? |
19 | Yeah , no I 'm putting them that way on top of each other . |
20 | I 'm going my own way now . ’ |
21 | I find that I 'm questioning my own authority , which makes me think even more . |
22 | Surely in a way I 'm answering my own point , you would have to go beyond just having a set of words on paper which says we have a major exceptions policy . |
23 | And I 'm making my own way home . |
24 | ‘ I see myself as a guardian , although I 'm making my own marks with a herb garden and wild flower garden . ’ |
25 | I 'm doing it that way . |
26 | Exactly , that 's what I 'm doing , I 'm doing it that way , I 'm doing the basics , which will get the marks and I 'm doing , going back and adding extra little sods when I 've finished it oh God |
27 | Oh it would n't be me cos I 'm , I 'm doing it this year and I only thought of it too late |
28 | Yeah well I 'm , I 'm gon na try and get the final year lecture for Tuesday sorted actually on Saturday and erm it 's usually , it 's usually Guy but I think I 'm doing it this week , yeah , because I 've got quite a few to do on things like racist in the media and Guy 's mate Dennis has just written a book and he 's given me a manuscript of it and it 's about how racist psychology is which is |
29 | doing something else when I 'm doing my own work . |
30 | Look I 'm turning it that way . |