Example sentences of "i [verb] [be] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The part of the convent in which I lived was called the noviceship . |
| 2 | What I propose is to examine the impact of notions of racial hierarchy , racial exclusion , and racial vulnerability and availability on non-blacks who held , resisted , explored , or altered those notions . |
| 3 | All I want is to show the world that Charles was not hallucinating . ’ |
| 4 | Lewis said yesterday : ‘ The last thing I want is to get the title outside the ring . |
| 5 | In the end , just to save myself from socking him one , I had to pretend I 'd been using the term ironically . |
| 6 | if I 'd been given the choice , erm you know if they 'd said you know okay you 're next , you going I 'd have said no thanks , send somebody else , but er |
| 7 | Everything in bilingual Canada was written in both English and French and I realized that since my arrival I 'd been reading the French quite easily . |
| 8 | ‘ But then you discovered how , for two years , I 'd been concealing the knowledge of your son from you , ’ Ashley broke in harshly , ‘ and telling me went out of the window . |
| 9 | I went through a period of depression erm I 'd been attending the doctor I 'd been told that I was suffering from various illnesses , but nothing helped . |
| 10 | But all the time I 'd been attending the doctor I 'd been told , first of all it was gall stones |
| 11 | I sat up feeling strangely light-headed and carefree ; maybe I 'd not had much sleep , but at least I had beaten the organist , at least I 'd been spared the Magnificat on an empty stomach . |
| 12 | On the handshake it was only when I got notified that I 'd been awarded the gold badge , I realized I never got my hand back that day . |
| 13 | Oh I 'm really pleased about that , cos last time on a , I was really disappointed I 'd been refused the course cos I thought oh , it 'll be right up my street that , cos when I was teaching full time I was quite into these er computers at the beginning and the one that went |
| 14 | I collapsed back into the armchair , almost as exhausted as if I 'd been climbing the Eigernordwand . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'd been doing the course and the basic thing they teach you is to take care when you 're ventilating a fire in a confined space , because you could get a flash-over , ’ he explained . |
| 16 | I 'd been paying tax and national insurance for 12 years before I found myself having to make a claim and if I 'd been putting the money in a building society I 'd have had a lot more than I eventually got out of them . ’ |
| 17 | But I had been er made a mon I think I told you this before , a monitor and I used to dodge all these sort of things and erm I used to go after I 'd been putting the books out for the next lesson , I could go to the library and I used to sit down and read . |
| 18 | I 'd been told the baby was semi-posterior so I knew I had to turn her into a more comfortable position for birth . |
| 19 | ‘ Suppose I 'd been having the breakdown . |
| 20 | As ARM will I hope be leavening the church , so the church is meant to be like salt and light in the world . |
| 21 | The next thing I remember was seeing the face of a policeman above his yellow emergency jacket , who was reassuring me : I was all right . |
| 22 | On this occasion I personally moved from The Bun Shop to a pub I believe was called The Volunteer run by a well-known and aged bare-knuckle fighter from London 's East End called Joe Mullins . |
| 23 | There were hand-outs on ‘ Cruelty Free ’ cosmetics , positively promoting cosmetic companies who did not drip shampoo into rabbits ' eyes in what I knew was called the Draize Test for irritancy . |
| 24 | ‘ Then I was shocked to discover someone I knew was running the place . |
| 25 | The first thing I do is check the stocks , followed by date returns and er , you know , erm , get that done , out of the way , and start looking at the , of the night , and what have you , setting that up , and maybe the late night process , hand over from the branch manager , walk round doing any detail he wants me to do , and hand over from late nights . |
| 26 | I want to sleep in my old room , so what I do is take the mattress and stick it back in my old room . |
| 27 | ‘ All I do is report the facts , Mr Calder . |
| 28 | ‘ What I do is follow the money and make sure the people who are spending it on my behalf are actually the right sort of people , and are doing the right sort of job . ’ |
| 29 | Just before we go we are going to hear a recording of a song that 's been referred to which I think is called the greatest love of all which I 'm told we 'll all know by heart er this time next year hmm erm anyway on that note if I may thank you very , very much indeed and I leave you with best wishes for a highly , highly successful birthday year . |
| 30 | His main use I think is to bolster the reader 's view of Eddie and is used by Miller to drive home Eddie 's feelings in case you do not know them already . |