Example sentences of "[be] [verb] i [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My long-suffering owl chauffeur said to me one day while he was yet again driving me to some venue I was going to give a talk at , ‘ You and that bird are costing me a bloody fortune ! ’ |
| 2 | Oh well now you 're asking me a tricky one . |
| 3 | ‘ Mister , you 're givin' me a hard time , you are , and just when I 'm thinking I 've met a real gent for a change . |
| 4 | they pay , they pay , they are paying me a little bit , I think it ought to go up in price a bit though myself |
| 5 | ‘ This magazine has been giving me a hard time . |
| 6 | He says , ‘ You 've been giving me the wrong club all week . ’ |
| 7 | And obviously Janet , you 'll be giving me the other one , so if you can take the time to look at it . |
| 8 | If you can procur [ sic ] me any porters for this , the finest and most perfect work I have yet attempted , you will be doing me a real kindness ; you are aware that neither pains or expense will be spared to render it complete . ’ |
| 9 | I 'll be absolutely open with you — we do have difficulties over cash , but when you see the business we 've got lined up … well , this time next year I 'll expect the bank to be standing me a slap-up lunch ! |
| 10 | Next thing you 'll be telling me the little cow 's summoned up the ‘ forces of Evil ’ . |
| 11 | But it seems to be hitting me a little bit more now , I 'm beginning to realise he 's never coming back . |
| 12 | I thought you were calling me the bearded wonder then . |
| 13 | That same day he told me , as if he were giving me a magnificent present , that he thought he could pull strings and have me posted with him . |
| 14 | And you were telling me the other clubs men men had |
| 15 | Yeah cos , my mates were telling me the other day what 's Gilly said ? |
| 16 | I know I 've been a bit stupid , but I 'm trying to get my act together and all Luke-do-it-all-Denner does is give me a hard time ! |
| 17 | It 's teaching me a little bit , you see . |
| 18 | Ceri ( 4.2 ) : My mum is buying me a new bathing suit . |
| 19 | This is doing me no good at all whereas it seems to be all me and my wife it 's but like we went to court , Mr and Mrs who were equally involved in it |
| 20 | I 'm fed up with waiting but out of town , it 's doing me no good all the way round there right round here some , there 's a home , she 'd have to take it |
| 21 | All of this is giving me a good opportunity to get up to speed quickly on AEA and the various issues we face . |
| 22 | He 's giving me a three-month methadone course , to bring me down gradual … . |
| 23 | ‘ What you 're doing , Eva , is handing me the old ‘ everyone 's a junkie ’ line , right ? |
| 24 | I 'm sorry , it 's taking me a long time cos I do n't know what to do . |
| 25 | James is telling me a secret |
| 26 | I said things is bothering me a little bit . |
| 27 | And he 's still , one bloke went bankrupt , and he only got amount off him , he 's telling me the other week , he 's , he 's still five thousand pounds owing to him , though , work he did twelve months ago |
| 28 | I mean technically we do have an entitlement to visits in that Janet was was reminding me the other day that that we said , when Deborah was here , that everybody was entitled to four visits a year . |
| 29 | Erm , I was erm , put on just for in ninety seventy three and your question that you 're asked was and from nineteen seventy three till three years ago erm I know took my causes , I trust , put my trust in the doctors and erm over all those years I did n't realize that it was actually the tablets that was causing me the mental illness . |
| 30 | Mat. , she had managed to give the impression authority was granting me a great favour . |