Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [verb] [pron] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am writing you a joint letter this time , as I forget who I sent my last card to . |
| 2 | Dear Miss Mitchell , On the instructions of my client , Mr Marius Steen , I am sending you the enclosed letter . |
| 3 | Well on , I do it the right way , because I do n't always feel that I am doing it the right way . |
| 4 | ‘ It might just be , ’ Hari said sharply , ‘ that I am making something a little bit different , giving personal attention to what the ladies require in a way that a big factory could not do . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Bowe has always said that I am the man he wants more than anybody and now that I am giving him the perfect opportunity , he is shying away from it . |
| 6 | I am afraid I am giving you a great deal of trouble . ’ |
| 7 | I 'm reading him the Greek myths at bedtime and I just hope when we get to Oedipus the penny will drop . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm promising you a gracious occasion , so try to behave with a bit of savoir faire . |
| 9 | yeah , you know and I 'm taking them a few things . |
| 10 | I 'm writing it the same as she writes her book . |
| 11 | Cuddling Flossie close , Robert said : ‘ I 'm feeding her a little bit at a time and she is looking much better already . ’ |
| 12 | You probably would n't appreciate a shape up exercise video Mrs B , so I 'm sending you a spare copy of Donald Norfolk 's book , Think Well , Feel Great . |
| 13 | To demonstrate my concern , I 'm sending you a complimentary copy of Microsoft Works 3 for MS-DOS . |
| 14 | No , I 'm bur I 'm buying you a new pack of condoms . |
| 15 | We d Okay we do n't know , we want to ask them we w So if you are an MP in North Yorkshire and er you think I 'm giving you a hard time and I know you sneakily listen to this programme , I know you listen . |
| 16 | So I 'm offering you a good wage , girl ! |
| 17 | Because I 'm making you a fantastic offer . |
| 18 | I 'm doing it a funny way this time . |
| 19 | It was as if I were doing him a big favour . |
| 20 | Thank you very much indeed for the smelly duck — or should I say scented , it is such a nice smell ! — and for the pretty scarf which , you may be surprised to hear , Mark admired when I was wearing it the other day though he had n't realized it was new and from you ! |
| 21 | I was teaching them the fine art of drinking Tequila Slammers , one of the fastest ways of getting spifflicated known to man . |
| 22 | In the Anglo-Italian Cup , group A , the other game being played in this country tonight as I was telling you a short while ago , Bolton nil , Brescia one , the goal scorer after three . |
| 23 | Saying er , I was telling it the other day , she said you could spend all that money on and she said , we went to see this horse , it was years ago before they got their own , she said the horse had just had its foal and it was like he 'd spent a thousand pound on the , the actual stallion yeah and it come out |
| 24 | Erm I 'm , I admit er that that was one I just bolted simply because I was taking it the wrong way round , I thought we had identified what was the priority , life insurance , P H I and pensions and was summarizing it whereas I should 've realized we 're doing that page towards the priority |
| 25 | I was expecting you a little bit earlier actually , I think perhaps you got the times wrong I was |
| 26 | ‘ I felt as though I was announcing it the whole time : by the way I watched you , and talked to you , and could hardly manage not to touch you — stroke your head , brush your arm , hold your hand … . |
| 27 | On that morning I was giving them the latest news of Nigel . |
| 28 | Although unladen with any climbing gear — even the daysack was being carried by Singi — I was finding it a hard struggle to make upward progress in the thin , cold air ; surprisingly more so than on Mera Peak when ice-axe , crampons and heavy climbing boots had been used . |
| 29 | Of course , in thinking like this , I was doing him a great injustice : the change was not so much in him , as in the way I saw him . |
| 30 | I was doing it the other day yes . |