Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [verb] i [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | lips I am missing I like this one . |
| 2 | It was curiosity , when I was sixteen at school I was told I had another sister at the same school . |
| 3 | I had never been able to do that , not with such unselfconscious pleasure , perhaps because deep down I had resented his existence which was preventing me doing all the marvellous things I had intended to do in the world . |
| 4 | When you close you been hearing me say this to you when we first started , I 'm sure that you , you know , you 're aware of it now , you should be , what did I say to you once you 've closed somebody ? |
| 5 | I came here to work and you are stopping me doing that . ’ |
| 6 | Oh , I can see you 're getting me baffled this morning |
| 7 | ‘ When I heard you were coming I made some discreet enquiries about you at the newspaper . |
| 8 | ‘ The tenant 's a friend and she 's letting me use this place while she researches a book in Italy . ’ |
| 9 | Fixing my eyes on them , I could n't help cursing Aisha , wishing she was dead , swearing by the Prophet Muhammad that I would have my revenge because it was she who was stopping me walking those streets and riding in those red buses to find work and a flat or a room of my own . |
| 10 | We were talking I think this is the thing about clawback , er this year our erm receipts taken into account are two point three eight million as opposed to last year er this is taken into account we drew four hundred and seventy five thousand , that 's a huge jump erm the government by in telling us we can send this er this er what I call minuscule carrot erm this year er the capital receipts from November last year until December next year erm a anyone had undoubtedly for most of that back in the in in the use er er a grant and I think it , as the government have actually kept extremely quiet on this subject , that seemed to be the scenario that seems most likely to happen . |
| 11 | It 's let me get this straight now |
| 12 | it 's completely anonymous number you know it 's only to be on that , said I 'll wipe it off then , you bloody well wo n't , I think he wants to tell people before he can say very wrong , could say something personal , if it was personal , no longer it , no you were n't personal to you , but I 'm quite happy to arrange it if you wish , no , no , no , no , no , , I should n't have to tell you not to take my points in full , there we go it 's driving me doing that in the factory having without people 's permission , I want to know , I ask permission if I 'd er wanted to as a without being asked to do it , I would of gone and seen personnel and asked , I would not of dreamed of doing it in a work 's situation unless I was asked , say anything personal I 'd turned it off not that it , apart from me and Stuart |
| 13 | He 's letting me do that is he ? |
| 14 | Similarly Fawn Hall , asked by North to alter memoranda to conceal his work for the contras , remembered feeling uneasy : ‘ but I believe in Colonel North , and I know that there must have been a good reason why he was asking me to do this , and I — I did as I was told . ’ |