Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , my corresponding Ego fantasy is of losing my wits to such an extent that I am unable to work ; I am living in a filthy bedsit and the floor is strewn with pieces of paper that I am unable to make sense of , final demands which have not been paid , dirty clothes , plants which have fallen over , unwashed plates and mugs — and I am curled up in a foetal ball , wishing the world would go away ! |
| 2 | Many times I 'm called up by a local doctor and asked to do what is called a DV — a domiciliary visit to assess the mental state of an individual . |
| 3 | I 'm called back by a member of the Guardia Nacional . |
| 4 | I smoked for twenty seven years , and erm I 'm getting on to a year now since I stopped smoking and I feel a lot calmer , I hated being a victim to cigarettes ! |
| 5 | I 'm getting out for a pee in a minute , so I 'll get one out of the Land Rover if you throw the keys . ’ |
| 6 | I have a feeling now , as if I 'm walking around with a sign on my back saying ‘ Kick me ’ , or ‘ I 'm a prat ’ , the sort of horrible joke kids play on each other , because I feel as though that 's exactly how people treat me . |
| 7 | I do n't know what 's happening to me — I feel as if I 'm walking round in a dream . |
| 8 | I had a word with Harry , an' I 'm buyin' in as a junior partner … always providin' you 've no objections , that is . |
| 9 | So she said I 'm coming up in a fortnight 's time the fourteenth cos it 's David 's birthday that week |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm coming down for a night , ’ said Louise . |
| 11 | Yes I 'm coming down in a moment . |
| 12 | I 'm sitting up on a hillside looking down on Lollapalooza , by a ski lodge which is shut down for the summer . |
| 13 | So that 's why I 'm going around with a little machine and a microphone on |
| 14 | When I 've bought my sons their shirts I 'm going on to a good academic bookshop to get an item for myself — a book called something like Syntax and Significance : A Cognitive Approach . |
| 15 | Just wait here , I 'm going up for a bath first , you can |
| 16 | I 'm going down for a week from 10 May to see many of them . |
| 17 | I do n't know if I 'm going down with a cold or something . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm going out for a few minutes . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm going out for a bit . ’ |
| 20 | I 'm going out for a while . |
| 21 | She said , ‘ I 'm going out for a bit to see Dickie . ’ |
| 22 | If I 'm going out for a professional dinner , something formal , I will wear an evening dress . |
| 23 | If I 'm going out for a meal with friends , I wear Richards Shops-type suits that are flowing , or have a fluid look . |
| 24 | if I 'm going out for a meal I prefer to try something different , you can have a steak at home , I mean |
| 25 | I 'm going out for a minute anyway , . |
| 26 | I said to her , ‘ Look I 'm going out in a couple of weeks , you must tell me exactly what happened so I can tell the papers about it . ’ |
| 27 | But with his being tied up with a pension he gets twelve thousand pension as well . |
| 28 | Three weeks ago I was invited down to a meeting of water workers . |
| 29 | I was sent on with a minute to go and never touched the ball . |
| 30 | Actually the last time I was stood up on a platform and did this was in front of erm a S G T congress in Dieppe and I tell you I had to do it in French , and it was much more difficult so I 'm hoping this one will go smoothly , but I , what I 'd really like to do is begin with is offer you erm delegates and platform both , a very very warm welcome from the trade union movement in Portsmouth . |