Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [verb] i [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , the stressed housewife may take rights 3 and 7 and decide that : ‘ I have the right to suggest to my elderly mother-in-law that she enquire about the possibility of a home-help , as the demands she is making on me are wearing me out ’ . |
| 2 | Do n't have to talk about an just a good chat you know just I do n't want to I do n't want to talk about good people or all about that I do n't want to talk about that I want to talk I want to talk to that person out there who will feel now that it is them that I am I am appealing to I am appealing I now . |
| 3 | And if I 'm saying I really want to do less for the cracker bar now , because that was hard pushed . |
| 4 | Well I 'm saying I still do n't know , the figures that I 'm being given suggest that by Friday , erm or by Monday , we 'll have sufficient to meet the orders of . |
| 5 | And if want to check quickly in a car and I 'm driving I automatically put the hand |
| 6 | They pushed through the padded door , back towards the dining room , and Miranda confided , ‘ When I 'm really on the breadline and someone 's taking me out , I sometimes tell them I have n't any change for Madame Pipi — they give me something . |
| 7 | When I was appreached I immediately said of course . |
| 8 | " When I was recuperating I naturally questioned . |
| 9 | ‘ You wo n't remember , but all the time I was racing I also ran a construction business . ’ |
| 10 | Dear Boy , It must be very difficult for you sometimes I expect not having anyone and having to do all the shopping and cooking for yourself I know that when I was working I certainly could not have managed on my own , coming home tired and then making dinner your own dinner and then going upstairs to do some more work , what sort of life is that , though I know all about that because of course I did do that for three years almost , and I know how much happier I was when I knew there was someone waiting for me and having the dinner ready and keeping the house clean and all those things , or perhaps you people do n't think those things are important . |
| 11 | He said gon na try and last up to , I said well I 've got ta go so I 'll see how I go but I was shaking I just could n't ! |
| 12 | There was a point when I wondered if someone was having me on , but few people even knew I had written in . |
| 13 | Nobody is bring me down ( said with anger ) . |
| 14 | and , and that 's er it 's all the slowness which was doing me in . |
| 15 | With my new label of ‘ blind ’ came the object which was to stigmatize me more , a shiny new , long white cane . |
| 16 | ‘ You are to move me so that I may see the moon . ’ |
| 17 | Harriet , she begins to talk , feeling the wine in her head , and talking faster , you are telling me how you bought this pretty scenery for Mummy 's sake , partly . |
| 18 | He was bowing over her , and he was nonplussed when , smiling up into his face , she said , ‘ You are teasing me now , are n't you ? |
| 19 | And I was , Donald , I was so happy to get it back and read it and learn that you are missing me as much as I am missing you . |
| 20 | If you are asking me where the remedy lies , my answer is that I have told you before and I shall go on telling you , and you know perfectly well what it is , though everybody thinks that it is too difficult and that therefore there must be a different remedy . |
| 21 | You are making me very , very angry , ’ he broke in softly . |
| 22 | In a voice thick with sugar and lust he said , ‘ You are driving me wild . |
| 23 | In a kindly voice ( for which , later , he felt like smacking her ) , she said , ‘ I think you are mixing me up with the child our mother had in the late 1930s . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ You 're ordering me around again , if that 's what you mean , ’ she replied , ‘ and if you think I 'm going to trot obediently upstairs and take off all my clothes you must take me for a fool . ’ |
| 25 | You mean you 're leaving me here with that man while you enjoy yourself on the ski-slopes ? |
| 26 | Alex had thought , You 're throwing me away and trying to make yourself feel good about it . |
| 27 | ‘ You 're seeing me now ! ’ she said . |
| 28 | You 're annoying me now |
| 29 | Come on you blo , you 're boring me now ! |
| 30 | You 're setting me up . ’ |