Example sentences of "[pron] be [verb] [pron] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ But I 'll need some support if I am to give him the service he wants .
2 I am telling you the truth , Headmistress , ’ she said .
3 You may think I am exaggerating but I am telling you the truth as clearly as I remember it and I remember it very clearly .
4 I happen to have half a dozen , and there is one , just one , that I am allowing you the privilege of riding , because I think you are capable of coping with it .
5 In his covering letter he mentioned yet another title and gave the Wagnerian aspect an unexpected prominence : " I have written a pamphlet … which is to have the title " Music and Tragedy " , and I am sending you the beginning of it in manuscript .
6 I am giving him the chance to be his own publisher , ’ said Mr Maxwell .
7 In return for your resignation , I am offering you the opportunity to study a dreadful disease in a living laboratory .
8 I 'm telling you the truth ! ’
9 I 'm telling you the truth .
10 " I 'm telling you the truth . "
11 I 'm telling you the truth , ’ she said gently .
12 I 'm telling you the truth , ’ she persisted .
13 Ah , I 'm telling you the truth .
14 I 'm telling you the truth , ’ he said .
15 ‘ Do you have any reason whatsoever to doubt that I 'm telling you the truth — other than the fact that I 'm a singer ?
16 And that old man I 'm telling you the God 's truth , I watched him when I was coming school many a time , used to go to Anglesey with a rope in his pocket here .
17 And then a letter saying , you know it 's personalized saying , Dear Mrs Smith , thank you for your enquiry , I 'm sending you the information you requested and also thought that you might like to have a l a leaflet about our bridal box .
18 ‘ Well , I 'm giving her the benefit of the doubt , ’ said Loretta .
19 I 'm giving her the chance to show what she can do , ’ Lucy retorted , then left the table before tears of frustration could betray the bitter hurt raging within her .
20 I 'm giving you the chance to escape .
21 It said , " I 'm probably saying more than I should , but as I 'm giving you the information without you asking for It , I do n't think it 's covered by the rules .
22 ‘ And I 'm offering you the job as manager at a pound a week more than your present salary . ’
23 ‘ So I 'm taken back down and I 'm wondering what the hell 's going on .
24 I have reason to believe that if I were to ask you the time you would n't be able to accommodate me .
25 Someone 's telling you the answers and you 're thinking , Well okay it must be right knows what he 's doing he 's a teacher right okay I 'll put it down .
26 I mean , I think if someone is showing you the rainforest and he does n't stop every ten yards to show you something , then that 's not a good guide .
27 Well , it 's funny , I was telling Stephen , my boyfriend , about that , and I was telling him the question and he said
28 I was telling you the truth .
29 This paradox remained until early 1974 , when I was investigating what the behavior of matter in the vicinity of a black hole would be according to quantum mechanics .
30 And again perhaps to follow up a previous question and the question is this , that in the first draft of the statement of faith which was presented two years ago , there was a very clear statement which said that Christ died for our sin in connection with the cross and I was wondering what the reasoning was which took away that very specific meaning of the death of the Christ into a much more general and ambiguous one in the statement before us today .
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