Example sentences of "i [be] [verb] [prep] [pron] the " in BNC.
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1 | I am listening to what the Lord God is saying ; he promises peace to us , his own people , if we do not go back to our foolish ways . |
2 | Response : I am listening to what the Lord God is saying ; he promises peace to us , his own people , if we do not go back to our foolish ways . |
3 | No , well I 'm I 'm saying to you the same sort of things , in general skills and abilities there are certain things that we required to put in the er numeracy the literacy er , to some degree attendance and punctuality , although we do n't have to do it on a subject specific basis erm we , everybody wants to know about he young , ho whether their youngsters are trying i.e. effort ha , whether they behave in lessons . |
4 | You imagine that if I were to catalogue for you the incidents of my life , and tell you all my memories , you would come to know me better . |
5 | I was looking at it the other day and I was thinking all the bits that are out now . |
6 | I was thinking of them the other night , well they er , five at least erm they were |
7 | You know I did , I was entranced by them the other day . |
8 | With a broad smile , he explained , ‘ When I was talking to him the other day , and I happened to mention that an old friend of my sister 's was coming to Ireland , and that I was going to show her round Dublin , and that we 'd agreed to meet here , and about how scatty … ’ |
9 | I was talking about it the other day and you go and it all comes , it hurts and , and it comes out and you ca n't even hold it down either cos it just comes in your mouth dribbles out the side . |
10 | A girl from another broken family ‘ used to sleep in the same bed as grandma — I was sleeping with her the night she was found dead the following morning . ’ |
11 | ‘ I was devastated by what the letter said because I never , never used steroids . |
12 | But I was told about it the night before I was released ! |
13 | But as I was going into it the sun came out , challenging the smell from the night lavatory . |
14 | Perhaps I was going about it the wrong way . |
15 | As I was saying to you the other day , laddie , because I was aiming to be a fighting man I would n't get married . |
16 | The hon. Gentleman makes a fair point , which is not very different from the point that I was making about what the governor of Brixton prison knew several months before those IRA terrorists broke out . |
17 | If I was left to it the first pint would go about |