Example sentences of "i [verb] [be] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean were working with five at the minute , we 'll go to that place and double it up to say ten and by this time next , next year there 's not any reason why it should n't be more to sixteen |
| 2 | She said , ‘ All I want is to speak to one of the doctors . ’ |
| 3 | I 'd been thinking about this all the way back to London . |
| 4 | I 'd been existing on two or three hours ' sleep a night . |
| 5 | During that week I felt the Lord speak to me and I knew that this is what I 'd been looking for all my life and I decided to follow Jesus . |
| 6 | The last dying patient I 'd been to visit in this hospital had been the caretaker of our Health Centre , in much pain from a carcinoma of the pancreas . |
| 7 | I 'd been writing a monthly column for Options as long as I 'd been writing at all . |
| 8 | ‘ I did n't even know of them until later on in my teens , after I 'd been recording for several years . |
| 9 | Well I mo moved because promotion was in the line for me , I was in the Royal Marine Police in island depot in Plymouth and er I 'd been put on plain clothes work and I 'd been doing acting sergeant you know when the sergeant was off sick and all that business and er I 'd put , been put in for this to move because we had a two bedroom bungalow but the twins were getting big and I realized that we 'd have to have another bedroom you know , very soon and er , this seemed an opportunity to get a house and also in Plymouth , that Plymouth was a naval town , you see , there was still those days there was still kind of a , a lower deck of sons , what they call lower deckers , in other words you know people in the lower deck of the navy , their sons did n't really have much , ever have much chance of getting into places like Dartmouth College or Cramwell to do as cadets , well the headmaster at Regent Street School had said to me that Keith was very keen on flying , he was aeroplane mad you see , and , he wanted to go in the Royal Air Force , well he said to me he said oh no put him in the Navy and as a chief art as an artificer , so I said oh no , I said if he goes in the Navy or the service I want him to go in the front door not like me the back door , I had ambition for him |
| 10 | I 'd been indulging in good heart exercise while sitting still . |
| 11 | The vasectomy dated from 1980 , when a girl I 'd been sleeping with told me she was embarazada . |
| 12 | I 'd been waiting for some opportunity to show off , to draw attention to myself . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'd been working on that right during training it was more of a natural reaction . ’ |
| 14 | They would n't understand how earth-shaking it was that I 'd been dreaming at last . |
| 15 | Well no before that , I mean I 'd been told before all this Pete business yesterday night , I was told Elliot fancied me and that was true you know ? |
| 16 | so I mean I 'd been dying for this pint all , all day sort of thing , I felt much better after that . |
| 17 | ‘ I felt I 'd been caught in some street scam . |
| 18 | I 'd been falling since nineteen |
| 19 | I tried to remember when I 'd been held like that before , and by whom . |
| 20 | I 'd been walking for 45 minutes when I was hailed by a local farmer who had seen me on the moonlit road . |
| 21 | My knowledge of this period of history is rather hazy so I am not going to make an issue of it either way , for the simple reason which I suspect is shared by many of you , that I do n't care . |
| 22 | so she said I , I went in and I said to Geraldine I 'm going I owe you any bloody money take the bugger out me wages , she says I ai n't having people that I like being stabbed like that by people like that , she said she ai n't worth the salt of the earth , she 's the salt of the earth she said with people like that pointing to Jenny and Jane , no way , she said and I 'm going with my mates , I turned round and the next thing Janet and Janet and Barbara in there , when we got up the pub at twelve o'clock , course we were all having sandwiches me and Pam got the , me and er Barb got there , then Pam come in then a few more come and erm then the plumber and all that come in with them and I said oh girls we never clocked out , so I said oh well I 'm gon na have to take my key back to Steve , burst out laughing , so I said oh no I said why do n't we have a key cracking competition so of course that 's what we did we all took our keys out of our bag and we went ready for she 's a jolly good ready , steady , fellow , for she 's go and we cracked these ruddy keys and shoved them up in the air |
| 23 | During the fifties ignorance about Black people was rife : I remember being asked on many occasions , as a child , if I had lived in the jungle , if my parents ate cat food or even people . |
| 24 | If you drive from er I remember being stopped by one of those men in the dark glasses erm if you drive from Maine into New Hampshire the speed limit in Maine is sixty five and the speed limit in New Hampshire is fifty five and you just cross a si er y there 's a signpost which says welcome to Maine or New Hampshire , whichever way you 're going , and the second you cross that line , theoretically , you have adjust to the different speed limit . |
| 25 | Less easy to identify were personality traits which I believe are carried by Briant Bodies Gamma and Delta . |
| 26 | My wife Pam has been for some time aware that I have been having an on-going relationship with Suzannah , who I believe is known to some of you . |
| 27 | Should I have been told before this ? |
| 28 | The very first RAF uniform I saw was worn by FIt Lt Wedgwood Benn DSO , DFC — father of Anthony Wedgwood Benn — MP who was the Member of Parliament for Leith when he visited my school . |
| 29 | So all I do is go through this , file that , oh yes , yes , file it and then you 've got your client files and everything , file everything , the pile goes down , some of it 's bin , binned . |
| 30 | ‘ You forget , Fran , that , as a Capricorn , everything I do is based on hard fact , not imagination . |