Example sentences of "[adv] i be [v-ing] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was weathering the winter and believed that if there was anything in my lung , then at the very worst I was holding it at bay . |
| 2 | I assured him I was only on a romantic , misty-eyed mission , though secretly I was wishing I 'd sent the birthday card instead to Winston Place . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm still finding my way around , but mostly I 'm enjoying it . ’ |
| 4 | Right I am saying it 's people that I 've spoken to . |
| 5 | So why put him under the pressure , she sa cos I said , I want to know what the long-term effect of me taking him out of this is , because , effectively I 'm taking him out of something of the system , knowing , he 's going to miss that . |
| 6 | But now he was cuddling me and whispering in my ear with helpless pleading , " Hold me — hold me — " Suddenly I was hugging him with all my strength ; our bodies were strung tight together and we were kissing each other 's cheeks with little frantic kisses — we could n't bear to draw apart even enough to find each other 's lips . |
| 7 | ’ And from , or nearly from , the outset there is the hint of a three-cornered relationship in which the future reader of the as yet unwritten Possessed joins novelist and narrator in a conspiracy to uphold the truth of the fiction : ‘ Altogether , when I describe conversations , even tête-à-tête conversations between two people — do n't worry : either I have hard facts , or perhaps I am inventing them myself — but in any case rest assured that everything is true . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Perhaps I 'm doing you an injustice , ’ he said , swinging his legs over the side of the bed , his back to her . |
| 9 | Unfortunately my driving licence has an old address on so I am sending you a copy of my vehicle registration form which does include my present address . |
| 10 | So I am asking you to stay on in Rome until her recovery is complete . ’ |
| 11 | So I 'm telling you Mr that I 'm not unemployed because according to the Government figures I am not . |
| 12 | And so I 'm thinking it 's Sally says keeping moaning , go to the doctors . |
| 13 | So I expanded to thirty percent on the , they had a Metroset in those days , and I said , you know , this is not likely to work so I 'm sending it out getting handset phototype , so I did . |
| 14 | I 'm going to be still working in the City , of course , and so I 'm hoping we can live somewhere near London . ’ |
| 15 | He 's a Jack Russell so I 'm hoping he might do something about the rodent problem at Low Birk Hatt . |
| 16 | So I 'm kicking him under the table ! |
| 17 | So I 'm cutting them all off , put them in some fresh water again . |
| 18 | So I 'm offering you a good wage , girl ! |
| 19 | and I had Mike ironing them while I was putting 'em up , I said right stand here and watch me hang this curtain , so I 'm showing him how to iron it , so while I 'm upstairs putting 'em up he 's ironing |
| 20 | So I 'm doing it : leaving . ’ |
| 21 | You turned round and said , do it in that one , so I 'm doing it in that one , then you changed to doing it in that one . |
| 22 | So I 'm saying we 're wa way off what the procedures are currently saying . |
| 23 | Remember what remember what you you 're the one that introduced the ninety niner to me so I 'm saying you should know about it . |
| 24 | So I 'm giving him a lie-in . |
| 25 | What I want to spend a few minutes on again this is something we 'll test tomorrow , right so I 'm giving you , training 's all about doing what do you think ? |
| 26 | Well what I 'll do is this is mine , Brenda to get so I 'm giving you |
| 27 | Yeah , they 've bought us them out and they were dirty a minute ago so I 'm putting them back . |
| 28 | I was work la last week and I erm I got ta scrub my nails after done everything anyway like every , like after I made the sandwiches , I scrub my nails after I 've been washing up , scrub my nails so I was scrubbing them all day Saturday , last week and it still did n't come out . |
| 29 | Later Mr Arbiter — a former radio reporter — said : ‘ The BBC crew wanted to do some filming so I was taking them round . |
| 30 | that 's er one of those upright ones in there she said yeah I thought Claire might be interested in that and so I was thinking it was like the ones we 've seen but it 's not , it 's completely round and it 's on erm like a stand like that , you know , it 's an upright |