Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [adv] [v-ing] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ I 'm really trying sir , ’ was the boy 's response . |
| 32 | ‘ I 'm never taking medicine from you again . |
| 33 | I says , I 'm only doing morning tomorrow . |
| 34 | The painkillers , I 'm still getting pain a bit and the nurses |
| 35 | Well I 'm trying to I 'm still thinking integration that 's all . |
| 36 | I 'm still losing weight and getting weaker . |
| 37 | hang on four , five , hang on I 'm still going Shell |
| 38 | I 'm still doing sex education at schools and look like it 's changing a lot cos there 's a lot more to do there , a lot more emphasis on Aids , that 's why they 've got to ki , teach kids in primary school , we 've got to prevent them from getting a disease . |
| 39 | I 'M still awaiting news about the eventual buyer of Showerings , the cider company put on the market by owner Allied . |
| 40 | I I 'm still having trouble with this leg . |
| 41 | A lot of the operations now I do I think I can do better that I 'm now seeing detail that I never saw before with the naked eye . |
| 42 | Well I 've er turned the tape over after side one , which was my first lesson and I 'm now doing side two , which is this lesson and the idea is to look at the s way in which language is used . |
| 43 | and I 'm certainly wearing paint tonight , quite a bit of it because its very hot under here and you would n't want to see me without it , but that 's me saying that , I mean why do I ? , why do I ? , why are we all wearing make-up ? , do we actually think we look better ? , are we trying to disguise something ? , yes |
| 44 | Exactly 3.7 nanoseconds after play commences , I 'm usually hurling abuse at the game , the C64 , my fellow ZZAP ! reviewers and anything that moves within a ten-yard radius . |
| 45 | I know why my experienced colleague and I were both having trouble with the yarn looping at the edges . |
| 46 | It got rather nasty — at one point my sister and I were actually playing tug-of-war with a vase — and ended with us rowing about which of us was his favourite . |
| 47 | ‘ Every room here has been booked since a year ago , and I was dearly hoping Donna would screw up the nerve to send her packing , but Mrs Foster happened by , and Matthew 's fiancée recognised her . |
| 48 | So far from craving for crumpets I was firmly resisting repatriation and trying hard to stay where I was ; the kindness of friends enabled me to do so . |
| 49 | I was just trying work out when Robert left school and whether he would be the first lot , but he wo n't be . |
| 50 | There was never any budget and so I was just using stuff that I 'd already recorded here and there — hence the roughness of it . |
| 51 | I was just making conversation , ’ she answered with dignity ; and he tried to look chastened . |
| 52 | ROS : I was just making conversation . |
| 53 | I was just making supper when that stupid eunuch came along making a great commotion . ’ |
| 54 | I was just playing bass in my bedroom before I joined The Lost Pandas , ’ he says . |
| 55 | Erm it 's also the case that , particularly when abuse is of this sort of y'know like I was just describing y'know stroking , caressing , all that kind of things um it a lot of erm in some cases very confused feelings on the part of the people who 've been abused . |
| 56 | I was just killing time . |
| 57 | And I was reading , I was n't even doing anything , I was just sitting reading and the teacher walked in and I did n't hear him . |
| 58 | Um and erm I was just wondering y'know kind of erm often when I write questionnaires I like to go for a sort of more kind of rather less declarative statements . |
| 59 | ‘ Aw , I was just having fun , ’ said the dog . |
| 60 | And t' other week I were up there and I I was just asking woman just as a matter of interest love , I said , how much . |