Example sentences of "i be [verb] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Nick Serota and I are lobbying to get a curator for the collection , ’ Mr Wheatley tells me . |
| 2 | ‘ Yes , ’ replies Craftsman Browne , ‘ but I 'm going to make the most of it — Geordie and I are going to hire a car and drive into the States to visit Yellowstone Park , getting back in time to spend a night in the Cadillacs Club in Medicine Hat … . ’ |
| 3 | On the bicycle , I am hoping to carry a microphone and tape-recorder , to make a commentary as I progress . |
| 4 | Now that I am retired , I find I am spending more and more time on voluntary charity work , for which I am very happy to take part , and I am hoping to make a start on making small wooden articles including picture and plate frames . |
| 5 | ‘ I have two years left of my contract , and I am hoping to have a benefit in 1995 . |
| 6 | I am looking to develop a television programme about women and their attitude and relationship with cars . |
| 7 | I am writing to ask a question about my local tennis club . |
| 8 | I am trying to document a Lotus 1-2-3 Release 2.4 spreadsheet which has many long and complicated formulas using my word processor — Word for Windows 2.0 . |
| 9 | I am trying to get a sighting of them eating cornflakes and drinking twelve — fourteen — sixteen nineteen bottles of wine . |
| 10 | Organiser Neil Storey said ‘ I am trying to find a word that goes beyond disappointed . |
| 11 | My own version goes something like this : ( a ) I am trying to comprehend a totality which might be called the " way of life " of the people under study ; ( b ) this " way of life " consists of the acting oui of an endlessly repeated social drama . |
| 12 | I AM trying to obtain a loan of £5,000 but loan companies appear to want interest of about £500 for each £1,000 borrowed . |
| 13 | My next effort was a ‘ coffee table ’ book on English Sporting Prints , also out of print , and , in my hundredth year I am trying to complete a Catalogue of English Sporting Prints c.1750–1880 , promised twenty years ago . |
| 14 | The first meeting takes place this week and I am asked to make a presentation to the Committee which was set up by the minister of finance . ’ |
| 15 | I am dying to make a sweater inspired by a new music centre in our house . |
| 16 | I am planning to do a sort of dance-drama with René Ahrenson in Spotlight . |
| 17 | I am planning to start a newsletter that will act as an information exchange and support forum for and by female and male survivors of childhood sexual abuse . |
| 18 | As part of my degree course I am required to make a study of the impact of the General Strike of 1926 on Alton and the surrounding area . |
| 19 | ‘ I am going to hire a car . |
| 20 | ‘ I am going to describe a girl to you . |
| 21 | ‘ I am going to take a shower , ’ Wexford said coldly . |
| 22 | I am going to take a risk and say what I think about local radio on the basis of my knowledge , personal knowledge , and these gentlemen can as it , as it were sort of say it 's , it 's not like that for them or whatever . |
| 23 | ‘ I am going to arrange a van to transport that fish to Berkeley so get it up on the bank . ’ |
| 24 | I was born a Catholic , and I am going to die a Catholic . |
| 25 | He said : ‘ I am going to enjoy a bit of a lie in , but I shall miss the customers because they made the job so interesting . ’ |
| 26 | I am going to install a pond . |
| 27 | The question we must answer is : ‘ If I am going to buy a plane , how much will it cost me and how can I get the money ? ’ |
| 28 | I had been doing you an injustice ; but I am going to make a will leaving you all I have . |
| 29 | ‘ Now , I am going to make a list of those present , ’ Perkins continued . |
| 30 | As I start painting the statue I realise I am going to have a problem . |