Example sentences of "i [verb] [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose the appeal to me has been making things happen and changing things and feeling quite British about it and proud of what in my very small way I have been able to do in this country and being able to export that abroad and make it a success there . |
| 2 | I find myself alone with the steward who tells me has been working on this line for the past twenty-five years . |
| 3 | What I advocate is exuding an aura of femaleness . |
| 4 | I see I 've been slipping up a bit . ’ |
| 5 | See I 've been getting a kind of rash on my face |
| 6 | He said , well you see I 've been smoking . |
| 7 | Well I mean I do I 've been doing aerobics a long time . |
| 8 | See I 've been coming for years with mouth ulcers . |
| 9 | I rub my face quick so she do n't see I 've been crying . |
| 10 | But I mean is gon na struggle cos he ai n't had many people for very long , has he ? |
| 11 | I mean were working with five at the minute , we 'll go to that place and double it up to say ten and by this time next , next year there 's not any reason why it should n't be more to sixteen |
| 12 | When I fight , I never think of being hurt — the one thing I fear is losing everything I 've worked for — the security for the future , for the kids and everything . |
| 13 | Another lady that I met was suffering from the elephant man 's disease ; her husband had recently died and she was expecting a baby . |
| 14 | And I got 's coming . |
| 15 | Friends and colleagues , most of you I expect are experiencing heavy increases in house and car insurance . |
| 16 | Saw three fellows at the end of Royce Wood , who I found were laying out the plan for an iron rail way from Manchester to London . |
| 17 | So everything I say is running |
| 18 | Those I mentioned are taking place currently at Sussex , yes . |
| 19 | The Emissary 's Illusochamber had also been free of bugging devices as I 'd found when I 'd been fiddling with my headband , activating a mini-ceptor in one of the jewels . |
| 20 | I did n't need a pee because I 'd been pissing on the Poles during the day , infecting them with my scent and power . |
| 21 | I 'd been expecting her to put up a stiff rearguard action , protesting that holidays were one thing and everyday life another , that she had only surrendered to me in a moment of weakness which she would regret for the rest of her life , and so on and so forth . |
| 22 | I 'd been expecting a great hall with a giant round table , towering turrets , a moat and a drawbridge , but , of course , it turned out to be a ruin . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'd been expecting for ages to hear you two were getting engaged . |
| 24 | I think I 'd been expecting something good when I reach the village — a bed for the night , perhaps — but the place was deserted . |
| 25 | And then I thought maybe I 'd been expecting too much . |
| 26 | I do n't know what I 'd been expecting . |
| 27 | I 'd been drawing since I was tiny — my grandfather is a very good artist , although he specialises in landscapes , and he 'd helped me enormously from the beginning . |
| 28 | ‘ The helicopter I 'd been watching suddenly veered to port and its rotor blades did n't look the same . |
| 29 | just that the punk I 'd been watching would hold open a car door for somebody else , the new top operator . |
| 30 | I 'd been jumping up and down like an eejit for a couple of minutes before the bloke next to me tapped me politely on the shoulder to point out the linesman and his flag . |