Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] i [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said he 'd been wanting to ring me all day but did n't want to interrupt my work . |
| 2 | I 'm going to find me some controls to fly this thing . ’ |
| 3 | Ah perhaps they 're going to give me some vitamins . |
| 4 | ‘ As a fund-raiser , you can never take no for an answer and no one was going to put me six feet under . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ You going to read me another story tonight , Mammy ? ’ |
| 6 | So , if it 's really going to cost me fifty pound the cubic metre to pour concrete and happen to have forty pound the cubic metre , then it 'll show up in the plan that mm , I 'm not doing to well here , because there was n't a big enough allowance . |
| 7 | Right , so , if it was going to cost me twenty pound a month for fifty thousand pounds worth of life cover , and I wanted to pay it annually , I 'd have to pay it twelve times , I 'd have to pay two hundred and forty pounds . |
| 8 | I was greatly relieved , both because this decision was going to save me endless work in revision and because I knew that if all my marks over the year were taken into account I should not have any problem in passing . |
| 9 | How are you going to get me some blood ? ’ |
| 10 | Oh , I 'll have to see wh she 's going to ring me this afternoon and say whether they can do it in the S C R. I 'm gon na try and persuade her that they can , because there are only forty people at this dinner and they 'll look stupid in the middle of the dining hall . |
| 11 | The arrival of Deacon Billingsley should have given me the satisfaction that my telephone call had been treated seriously , but I sensed this policeman was not going to offer me any satisfaction at all . |
| 12 | ‘ Are n't you going to offer me another drink ? ’ he asked . |
| 13 | The time was 9 a.m. , the sky was clear and blue , and nothing was going to stop me this time . |
| 14 | Well if I 'm going to read this er at all properly it 's going to take me all afternoon is n't it ? |
| 15 | But he is going to take me some day this week to some lovely woods he knows . |
| 16 | ‘ I can see that it 's going to take me some time to get an answer from the hospital , and I have yet to sort out this business of the air-conditioning . |
| 17 | It 's going to take me some time to type that list . |
| 18 | ‘ You 're going to tell me these nomes fly on them , right ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ He 's going to show me this museum he was telling me about . |
| 20 | I just hope i t 's not going to haunt me this year because I really would n't want that . ’ |
| 21 | He 's trying to kill me this fucker ! |
| 22 | ‘ Are you trying to tell me that Bella ; Bella ? — who according to you has slept with half of London — expects you to go through this … this disgusting pantomime in order to get a divorce ? |
| 23 | ‘ Are you trying to tell me that Ace blackmailed you into becoming his lover ? ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I assumed that because he might be busy working during the week he was being helpful in offering to visit me that afternoon . ’ |