Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [verb] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 A year or two later , expanding on her analysis , Iris Murdoch dubbed the journalistic novel ‘ loose and cheerful ’ , adding gaily that she was inclined to start writing a novel in the hope that ‘ a lot of people who are not me are going to come into existence in some wonderful way ’ — though frustrated , sometimes , by the prevailing theoretical power of her own philosophical mind .
2 And all of them are having to deal with innovation in some way or other .
3 THE Great North Run is nearly upon us , and I am writing to ask for help in finding a runner who is prepared to run for DIAL UK , the National Association of Information and Advice Lines .
4 The contrast I am trying to draw between courage on the one hand , and isug or tapang on the other , is similar to that between guilt and shame .
5 Because they Hyflo has 4 outlets , and I am trying to keep within budget , I would make do with 4 plates with a gap of a few inches between them — the overall effect should be total bottom filtration as there would be some sideways suction across the gravel in the gaps .
6 I have two barns I am planning to diversify into horse/pony accommodation .
7 I am planning to go on holiday for six weeks .
8 I am fasting to live in solidarity with all who suffer and are persecuted because they have committed themselves to social justice .
9 I am going to call upon Councillor to move .
10 My next step is to decide what I am going to use to pre-bait with over the next three weeks .
11 I am going to go into town more , on my night off , and just hang around where I 'm told the prostitutes stand .
12 I have got two children and I 'm hoping to go to college when my youngest daughter is three cos I ca n't get her , ca n't go until she is three cos the creche wo n't take them until they 're out of nappies and three year old .
13 I 'm trying to talk to nanny .
14 When , one , one of the changes I 'm trying to do at night is , is to make the nature reserve more attractive to all species .
15 The point I 'm trying to get at sir is that erm it is none of it is in none of our interests , either the planning authorities or even of the developers , that if we were to erm find a strategic sites policy appropriate for this alteration , it 's in none of our interests that it should be confusing to the public or to the development industry as to how rare a thing this should be and how tightly directed it should be in geographical terms .
16 er , so I 've a , is n't it , it 's a case of no news is possibly good news again , erm , I 'm trying to get in touch with the National Co-Organiser for Carl and John without er any success erm , I know he was going to the erm , the British Section just erm , he was gon na check on them and what actions were forthcoming but er , I have n't heard about that erm , I dare say there 's some on the way erm , the erm , the other few points were erm Jackie 's talk last month she mentioned that erm she was gon na give sort of the more forms sort of side presentation and stuff at their centre in North London , I 've got ta date for that now , it 's erm the eighteenth of March , which is a Wednesday so eh , I 'll certainly be going , if anybody else is interested that 's er , that 's the date er , it 's , it 's not entirely to do with but it , it has a link in , erm we were mentioning campaigns last month , I believe there 's a fourth coming one on , indigenous peoples , which , er , it 's , it 's all sort of triggered off by erm the er five hundredth anniversary of Columbus discovering the Americas erm , the erm cast and the whole of all the sort of the Region and Action networks and the Americas are , erm gon na have a big link in with that campaign so , erm , I , I 'd really like to see us sort of getting involved with that , yes , and , I mean , I 'll be involved to an extent anyway , cos some of the actions that I 'll getting will be sort of addressing the issue of indigenous people 's but erm , erm , they if , if nobody else is wiling to take it on , I 'll , I 'll , I 'd certainly be prepared to erm , sort of co-ordinate that campaign , erm , having said all that , erm I mentioned to a few people that erm , erm in the process of buying a house , so erm I could be moving in well hopefully as little as two months time so erm , I mean if er is as quite as it has been for the last few months , I probably wo n't have any problems , but erm , sod 's law it 's bound to pick up just as I 'm moving house
17 I 'm try I 'm I I I I 'm trying to stay with need and purpose .
18 Yeah , that 's when I 'm trying to stay in bed but I ca n't , on a Sunday .
19 ‘ And when will you get it into your head that it 's the project I 'm trying to keep in mind ?
20 I 'm beginning to feel under siege . ’
21 " Well , I 'm beginning to think about breakfast .
22 Erm , I 'm bound to say to Congress , that under normal circumstances , we do n't take additional supporting speakers on resolutions , er and the reasons for that is very obvious , it 's because of lack of time .
23 I 'M USHER KISSED BY JUDGE ZORRO
24 Erm okay I 'm going to talk about syntax mostly erm is everybody happy with the , the role that the assignment of structure plays in , in logics and semantics ?
25 I 'm going to talk to Father .
26 Yeah , I 'll have my one fifty there which I 'll have to , which I 'm going to take to town tomorrow night , because I took it out of my dad 's pocket , what he gives me
27 Yeah , I 'll have my one fifty there which I 'll have to , which I 'm going to take to town tomorrow night , because I took it out of my dad 's pocket , what he gives me
28 I 've got to decide what I 'm going to say to Mum and Dad — I 've got to picture them , feel what they always make me feel like and somehow change it … speak to them like speaking to a dream , make it my dream instead of their dream …
29 I I 'm going to say about back to this erm sump oil .
30 I 'm going to die of hunger otherwise . ’
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