Example sentences of "i 'm [verb] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | For instance , in I 'm meeting my teacher , my would be translated by svoj or svoja ( depending on the gender of the following noun ) . |
2 | I 'm meeting your brother in half an hour . ’ |
3 | I 'm controlling my temper now and I 'm learning to walk away . |
4 | He goes , look , I 'm breaking its leg and he 's going precious , precious ! |
5 | ‘ I might have done , only I 'm expecting my brother to pin me , I do n't quite know when . |
6 | I 'm setting my cap at someone else , she thought , circling the room with her chin in the air . |
7 | I pretend Marie 's in front of me and I 'm brushing her hair like I used to . |
8 | She says I would like to go up to Manchester soon and I 'm hoping my car is on the road because the trains to Manchester are pretty costly compared to the price of the petrol in my car . |
9 | Please excuse me — I 'm off for a refill ’ , ‘ I 'm enjoying our chat , but I 've just seen someone whom I need to speak to urgently . ’ |
10 | ‘ Every game is a bonus for me at this stage of my career and I 'm enjoying my football . ’ |
11 | I 'm reading my way through all the daddy 's books . |
12 | Watch , I 'm reading my paper now . |
13 | so he said I did say I 'm bringing my wife , she said oh yeah how many times have I heard that before |
14 | I 'm bringing my friends |
15 | And I 'm bringing my friends . |
16 | ‘ I 'm building my working life around my family , ’ I could imagine them explaining to puzzled spouses . |
17 | Orgady , I 'm wearing your skates next week , okay ? |
18 | And then , because she could n't bear to quarrel with him the night before she left for a new life , she said , ‘ I 'm wearing your mother 's brooch , Fran . |
19 | I 'm wearing my jacket and my Drizabone but I still feel freezing . |
20 | So I 'm wearing my birthday things , you know ? |
21 | I 'm wearing me skirt tomorrow . |
22 | Your cheeks like damask , the soft white loveliness of your breasts , leading to the firm dark mountain peaks of your , Laura , now I 'm dreading which part of my body he will choose next on which to turn the great white beam of his fucking sincerity . |
23 | I find I 'm holding my breath . |
24 | When Harold Wilson put in Lord Hill of Luton to act as chairman of the BBC ( a Conservative who , as head of the Independent Television Authority had ‘ made sure that their treatment of news and current affairs does not offend the Establishment ’ , in the view of Richard Crossman ) , he remarked , ‘ Charlie Hill has already cleaned up ITV and he 'll do the same to the BBC now I 'm appointing him chairman . ’ |
25 | So I , I 'm pull your name and address out . |
26 | Oh dear , I thought , he reckons I 'm wheedling my way in , not for birthday greetings , but for contentious sexist matters — to grill him about tonight 's Lancashire cricket club annual meeting when the agenda is topped by a proposal that women should at long last be allowed full membership entitling them to mix with men in the pavilion . |
27 | ‘ The scene is wide open and I think I 'm reaching my peak now . |
28 | Say I 'm picking my nose |
29 | I 'm copying you lot y'know , I 'm taping you now |
30 | And erm I 'm swopping my car |