Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [v-ing] [verb] some [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suppose that I am hoping to discuss some urgent problem with a friend , and ask , |
| 2 | ‘ I myself , ’ Miss Honey said , ‘ am probably far more bowled over by what you did than you are , and I am trying to find some reasonable explanation. ! ’ |
| 3 | I am going to hang some heavy wooded gates . |
| 4 | Gerstner told the IBM Corp meeting in Tampa , Florida that he does not intend to ‘ lay out a grand scheme ’ for the company : ‘ There has been a lot of speculation , ’ Reuter reports him saying , ‘ that I am going to unveil some great plan , ’ Gerstner said ; ‘ You will see actions , and our actions will speak for themselves , ’ but added that some actions will not emerge until 1994 ; he described it as not entirely accurate to describe IBM 's strategy as ‘ splitting it up into a bunch of little pieces , ’ and added that the dividend may change based on IBM 's performance and outlook ; ‘ We ca n't expect quick fixes , ’ Gerstner told more than 3,000 shareholders at the meeting , ‘ But I do dare to ask your patience , ’ he said ; his top priority is to get IBM 's layoffs completed and ‘ rightsize ’ the company — ‘ I want to get it behind us so we can say to those remaining , ‘ You are are our team , ’ ’ he said ; he acknowledged several times that IBM 's bureaucracy had hampered the company , and elsewhere it was reported that he has ordered managers to dispense with the customary slides and flip charts when they address him — ‘ IBM has changed but some would say not fast enough , ’ but ‘ We can bring IBM back , ’ Gerstner said . |
| 5 | But erm and I , I got my er microwave and I 'm trying to save some electric . |
| 6 | And , when I 've dealt with the doll , I 'm going to collect some nice wafer biscuits I just happen to have remembered the location of . |
| 7 | ‘ I used dried ones and I 'm going to put some frozen ones in at the last minute . ’ |
| 8 | I 'm going to put some more stuff down for those . |
| 9 | And if I want any colour I 'm going to get some black taps in the bath . |
| 10 | I do n't know how it is because I have n't heard it yet , but I 'm going to get some advance material any time now . ’ |
| 11 | Yeah , yeah I 'm going to make some new ones , I 've got plenty . |
| 12 | Still , I 'm going to make some more of the marmalade . |
| 13 | I 'm going to have some headed notepaper as soon as I can get the laser printer printing out things that I tell it to rather than printing out Courier Ten . |
| 14 | I 'm going to have some more of that medicine . |
| 15 | Just as I was starting to get some real braking action , an ominous dark line appeared across the runway which , from 50 to 60 metres , turned into an overgrown drainage dyke about seven feet wide by five or six feet deep . |
| 16 | I thought I was going to get some more , but I suppose nearly all the Owsla feel they 're very well off as they are . " |
| 17 | Unless you get this order right , you are going to bowl some amazing googlies ! |
| 18 | And eh , when you are going to give some solid . |
| 19 | Well if you 're going to ask some poor devil to clean er a carriage out is n't it fair to tell them what it is you mean by clean ? |
| 20 | Talk about your feelings with them and that will help you decide if you 're going to need some professional help to come through this experience which is very common and in which you can be helped , no matter what you may feel at the time . |
| 21 | She 's doing it on purpose , of course — I know she 's planning to do some more of her wretched putting practice . |
| 22 | I could tell , though , that she was beginning to have some uncomfortable suspicions — like the ones that were spreading the chill all through me . |
| 23 | Today , she was going to do some heavy-duty cleaning — stamp her seal on the place , and make it her own . |
| 24 | Sub-Divisional Officer Max Craggs said : ‘ We are looking to recruit some more Special Constables in Darlington . |
| 25 | Sub-divisional officer Max Craggs said : ‘ We are looking to recruit some more Special Constables in Darlington . |
| 26 | We are beginning to play some good stuff but I still think we can step u Arsenal were quickly off the mark , going ahead after only five minutes when a long David Seaman clearance found its way to Lee Dixon , whose early pass picked out Alan Smith . |
| 27 | AT LAST we are going to get some official action about electric plugs being fitted to goods before sale . |
| 28 | ‘ We are going to have some nice chicken salad . ’ |
| 29 | Next term we are planning to organise some weekly training , possibly at Balham , for as many of our existing students as can come . |
| 30 | With Wayne Rosing off to run FirstPerson , Dave Ditzel has been named acting head of Sun Microsystems Laboratories , an appointment it 'd be crazy not to make permanent : Ditzel , among his other credits , has been responsible for RISC and we 're expecting to see some interesting aspects of his handiwork soon ; Sun Labs , from whence Sun 's ideas flow , figures it 's handling the transfer of research to development better than practically anyone in the industry — the secret is moving the people with the project . |