Example sentences of "i [verb] be [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I advocate is exuding an aura of femaleness . |
| 2 | See I 've been getting a kind of rash on my face |
| 3 | The part of the convent in which I lived was called the noviceship . |
| 4 | What I propose is to examine the impact of notions of racial hierarchy , racial exclusion , and racial vulnerability and availability on non-blacks who held , resisted , explored , or altered those notions . |
| 5 | He bragged to friends : ‘ All I want is to kill a copper . |
| 6 | Nicholas Vernage told a friend : ‘ All I want is to kill a copper ’ , an Old Bailey jury heard . |
| 7 | Mr Nutting added : ‘ Grenfell admitted that in his presence Vernage had often said ‘ All I want is to kill a copper ’ . |
| 8 | Chilling words of knife maniac : All I want is to kill a cop |
| 9 | All I want is to show the world that Charles was not hallucinating . ’ |
| 10 | Lewis said yesterday : ‘ The last thing I want is to get the title outside the ring . |
| 11 | I 'd been made a lance-corporal just before we left and had been put in charge of a group of boys . |
| 12 | I had n't been thinking of stress or shock , I 'd been nursing a hangover . |
| 13 | Only to wish that I 'd been born a boy . ’ |
| 14 | In the end , just to save myself from socking him one , I had to pretend I 'd been using the term ironically . |
| 15 | I 'd been given a date for the baby to arrive but that came and went , but then I woke up in the early hours of the following Friday . |
| 16 | I 'd been given a pair of lime green webbed gloves as a wedding present by Roger , my surfing guru in Newquay . |
| 17 | I do n't think I could have handled it if I 'd been given a sentence . |
| 18 | I 'd been given a hint that something like this could be on the cards when I was first approached . ’ |
| 19 | He throws me out anyway , a bad influence , a bad example , coming from the kind of home I did , I should know better , I 'd been given every chance . |
| 20 | if I 'd been given the choice , erm you know if they 'd said you know okay you 're next , you going I 'd have said no thanks , send somebody else , but er |
| 21 | I 'd been taking a bucket of slack to the washhouse where all the women were gathered gossiping . |
| 22 | So I do n't You know whilst I would have normally if I 'd been teaching a class done about five or six examples of that , that 's all you 're gon na get . |
| 23 | Everything in bilingual Canada was written in both English and French and I realized that since my arrival I 'd been reading the French quite easily . |
| 24 | ‘ But then you discovered how , for two years , I 'd been concealing the knowledge of your son from you , ’ Ashley broke in harshly , ‘ and telling me went out of the window . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'd been to have a bun and a squint at Mrs Y 's telly , or , to put it another way , Inspector , doing a pastoral visit to a sick member of the congregation . ’ |
| 26 | I 'd been widowed a year when we met . |
| 27 | I went through a period of depression erm I 'd been attending the doctor I 'd been told that I was suffering from various illnesses , but nothing helped . |
| 28 | But all the time I 'd been attending the doctor I 'd been told , first of all it was gall stones |
| 29 | I sat up feeling strangely light-headed and carefree ; maybe I 'd not had much sleep , but at least I had beaten the organist , at least I 'd been spared the Magnificat on an empty stomach . |
| 30 | On the handshake it was only when I got notified that I 'd been awarded the gold badge , I realized I never got my hand back that day . |