Example sentences of "[pron] be [verb] [adj] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yes , I am quitting this hell-hole and recommend you do the same . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I am writing this letter while being kept in after school . |
| 3 | ‘ But if I am to achieve such merit as wins fame , then my life has not been so unworthy an exchange for hers as I always feared ! ’ |
| 4 | I 'm dreading this term when that assessor |
| 5 | I 'm leaving this evening and you 're coming with me , even if I have to help you pack , but do n't bother with anything except the basics . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm getting all biker and twisted : you 'd better feed me . |
| 7 | The Durman body , actually , is in its best shape for years : I 've lost over half a stone on my How-To-Stop-Them-Laughing-On-The-Beach diet , I 'm taking more exercise and generally feeling better all round . |
| 8 | I 'm gulping hot coffee and pulling on my coat ; my bag 's sitting on the reception desk in the hotel lobby and Andy 's standing , hunched and blinking and bleary-eyed , watching me stuff toast into my mouth and slurp coffee from a handle-free mug . |
| 9 | and I 'm using this stuff cos it 's better . |
| 10 | I 'm paying top dollar and I expect the best . |
| 11 | This this is what I 'm saying last time that if you 'll work through it , understand it , Oh yeah I can do that , |
| 12 | I 'm having this afternoon if he 'd have come here . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm having fresh sausage and onion pie with fried potatoes and a green vegetable , ’ said Joe . |
| 14 | I think I 'm going some place but I ca n't remember where . |
| 15 | So instead of going this afternoon I 'm going this morning while Jim 's at home before he goes to work . |
| 16 | I 'm questioning this man because he might be able to help us . |
| 17 | I 'm making this point because I think that we can get really to verify |
| 18 | For example , you take some cheese back to a shop and say , ‘ I 'm returning this cheese because it 's mouldy and I 'd like a refund . ’ |
| 19 | Keep repeating , ‘ I 'm returning this cheese because it 's mouldy and I 'd like a refund . ’ |
| 20 | If I were to take this gun and shoot … who ? |
| 21 | I was watching that film and thinking of her . |
| 22 | ‘ I was wearing lime-green chiffon and my mother 's emeralds . |
| 23 | erm the minor awards or discretionary awards as they became and that 's erm , I was given this job and er that 's how it 's built up really over the years . |
| 24 | I got my just desserts from Dad , which made my Mom cry more than me , but all in all I was given enough love and affection to cushion me against all the hardships that were to come . |
| 25 | I am no less interested to observe that , for Eliot , who always seemed unhurried , ‘ there is plenty of time ’ could mean a period of not much more than three weeks for reading ( the Strachey book being pretty long ) , writing typing and dispatching : which , given the fact that Spender 's book had not arrived , that I was teaching all day and conducting some evening classes , I still consider a tight fit . |
| 26 | ‘ I was struggling this morning because there is a frightfully long speech it becomes a feat of memory and if memory was the only element involved in acting then Leslie Welch the memory man would have been the greatest actor in the world . |
| 27 | Out drinking with a couple of female journalists ( in what was supposedly Hemingway 's favourite bar in Havana , if you must know ) , I mentioned I was writing this article and we all launched into our favourite New Age stories , like the one about the Immortalists , a group who take to its logical end the New Age philosophy of positive thinking and creating your own reality , and have decided they are going to live forever . |
| 28 | And I was asked this week if it is possible to make up your own , rather than buy one of these metal affairs on wheels . |
| 29 | On the following morning , when I was attending another committee of the Cabinet , I was handed another message that the Prime Minister wished to see me … . |
| 30 | Said I was selling double glazing or something . |