Example sentences of "i [be] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mark & I are driving south on Thursday , and as today 's an Edinburgh holiday , it will mean a 2–day working week for one ! |
| 2 | Sedgemore said : ‘ I joined first class rugby late but I am enjoying life with Cardiff . |
| 3 | Before I had completed a question about whether he would like to be Chancellor , MacGregor broke in to say with a smile , as he had to : ‘ But I am enjoying being at transport . |
| 4 | I am slicing bread for tea when Jancey arrives . |
| 5 | But I must stop , for I am turning Word into numbers not into flesh . |
| 6 | The starting salary is competitive , and I am acquiring experience in courts all the time . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ And what would I be doing peering down drains ? |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm not , but I 'm sending Curnow to Carbis Bay to talk to the old man . |
| 9 | Sarah : I 'm fixing mine into rows — some have holes and some have flat . |
| 10 | ‘ Then the lion looked up and said ‘ I do n't know about you , mate , but I 'm saying grace before meals . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm having dinner with Giles Carnaby . |
| 12 | I mean , these were people I was listening to when I was kid , and then suddenly I 'm having dinner with Carl Perkins ! |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm having dinner with Jeff , ’ she said . |
| 14 | Well I said what you looking at you skinny thing , and she just , how dare you speak to me like that , and I just who the hell you looking at you ugly thing , I 'm going to Espania tomorrow , cos I 'm going holiday to El Spania , right then |
| 15 | I 'm spending week after week after week . |
| 16 | all on Tuesday , because I 'm to stand victory on Tuesday er and it gives us chance then to get some more er er erm , reproaching done on the equipment |
| 17 | I could see that if I were to give way to retroscendence the average supermarket gondola , stuck with myriad products like a hedgehog with spines , would become a mystic test-bed able through its thousand portals to suck me into individual sagas so complex , so durable , that I would perhaps never reemerge . |
| 18 | SUMMERCHILD : Actually , I do feel a little as if I were coming face to face with my past in some kind of way . |
| 19 | I was to see Loch of Strathbeg . |
| 20 | Because I was born twin to Grainne … because the Royal Line must never divide … |
| 21 | When I was taught chemistry at Regent 's Street Polytechnic in the later 1930s , we 16-year-olds were treated as adults , not incompetents , and were expected to achieve titrations accurate to 1 per cent or less from the moment we began quantitative analysis : for were we not addressed by our splendid lecturers as ‘ Mr ’ ? |
| 22 | ‘ I was given sanctuary in England in return for information about the Luciferi . ’ |
| 23 | And recently I was served breakfast in New York by a waiter called Gareth Evans . |
| 24 | As I said at the beginning I think one should be wary about using the word natural , because sometimes people use it you know to promote something you know like on advertising you know it 's natural , must be good for you , but at the same time there are certain things that are natural that are very bad for you like death and if I were to say you know death is natural , nobody would think I was advocating suicide of course not . |
| 25 | Fuck her I was drinking stout on Saturday night and normally do n't do it because we 've simply no money ! on the vodka and say it was n't even enough to buy a carry out but do n't say it unless she says she was here ! |
| 26 | Well , towards the end of 1990 I was appointed artist in residence at the Tate Gallery in Liverpool . |
| 27 | In the latter part of 1943 I was appointed Archdeacon of Rangoon , in which capacity I was enabled to visit groups of Anglo-Burman Anglicans and others who had settled in various Indian centres . |
| 28 | I felt as if I was taking part in history and the results were spectacular . |
| 29 | Sir , — This correspondence ( ‘ Call for fresh air , not tea … answered by the taxman ’ , p 7 ) reminds me of an occasion some years ago when I was playing hockey for Ilford against Old Loughtonians . |
| 30 | Sometime during 1950 , I think before the summer , before the dresses were made , I was taken north to Burnley and into the sheds . |