Example sentences of "[adv] i be [v-ing] [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Perhaps I 'm waiting for you to ask me how I am . ’ |
| 2 | Perhaps I was going about it the wrong way . |
| 3 | So I am proposing with him to er undertake a fairly simple but comprehensive business of reading the bass clef , using the left hand , and introducing it into the kind of music that he already plays , and at the same time getting him to play other music as well , which he seems to be very happy . |
| 4 | the end of the last straw you see , so I went in the Co-Op and I felt really , really fed up , I said I oh I said I could cry I said because I 've tried so hard I said not for lending you money I said , I 'm not meant to have any sodding luck so got a couple of bits and I really could n't get me act together and on the Tuesday dad 's gone in hospital with that fit , so I was thinking of him a lot and I thought I do n't know dad , you know I 'm sure , I 'm sure that he were n't gon na come out when he went in there , I thought they were gon na bloody find something with you boy and that would be it , so I come home here and I ai n't done no work , so I started off for work , both sitting here bloody bawling cos this house looked like shit , spoke to me sister on the phone and er I felt a bit better so I thought oh I 'd start doing the tree , so I pulled it all to bits in here , got the polish and duster out , put all the bread and everything for Alan 's sandwiches , it 'd be about oh , about half past twelve and the bloody phone went it was mum , she said Lyn do you think you can come up to the hospital with me , cos I 've got no transport and so I said what 's up then mum ? |
| 5 | Well her mother was saying , they got engaged and , you know , there was drinks and her mother was saying oh the wedding 's gon na be in February , it 's gon na be a quick wedding and all this so I was talking to her , I said Cath I said when are you are getting married then ? |
| 6 | Thing is it is healthier and I mean this tablet lark now more I 'm thinking about it , right |
| 7 | And erm and the ne oh oh about two days later I 'm looking at them oh on the mantelpiece I better |
| 8 | No really I 'm waiting for it |
| 9 | Now I am writing to you to ask for your help , and I ca n't blame you if you do n't come . |
| 10 | In now I was reading about him pretty recently |
| 11 | now I was reading about him a few days ago |
| 12 | Well I was looking at you and I 'm snarling at you stop bloody messing like you always are messing . |
| 13 | Well I was talking to him about it , I said I reckon you 've spent the you 've spent quite a bit now so you might as well just go another get final . |
| 14 | I said well I 'm trying to I said this bloke what happens to be my oldest brother I said , and he wo n't even tow it for me ! |
| 15 | Well I 'm trying to I 'm still thinking integration that 's all . |
| 16 | ‘ Well I 'm coming with you , so you 'd better think of something . ’ |
| 17 | Well I 'm waiting for you . |
| 18 | Well I 'm going to I 'm going to have two things . |
| 19 | and er , and , and , he feels look , well I 'm caring with it now but some time |
| 20 | Here I am talking to you about myself — a thing I assure you I very very rarely do — while you are shrinking from making the slightest personal communication to me . |
| 21 | But when I looked down , I saw the board was all made of bones and wire ; and I screamed and you said , " Swim — everybody swim " ; and then I was looking for you everywhere and trying to drag you out of a hole in the bank . |
| 22 | So if I ca n't have you here , if you 're determined to leave Venice , then I 'm coming with you . |
| 23 | Then abruptly I was looking at him , seeing him , because he 'd put my dreams back on top of the bag and he 'd got his head stuck down on his knees and his shoulders were shaking . |
| 24 | And then there I was yelling at them , and it was n't anything they did , it 's not their fault what I did , and I feel so guilty towards them , I should n't be shouting at them . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ And there I was waiting for you , in such a state ever since Kukrit came back late from the airport and said he 'd missed you , ’ Jeremy replies , suggesting with automatic but irrelevant chivalry that they are lovers separated from their tryst with one another . |
| 26 | Once again I am writing to you on behalf of Pat McDonald , who is in Riyadh . |