Example sentences of "i [be] [v-ing] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've found it difficult to work , have n't made any friends and I am dreading next year . |
| 2 | Sir : I am writing first to congratulate you all on an excellent magazine , I have been reading Computer magazines for the last 10 years and can honestly say that Practical PC is the most informative and enjoyable one to date . |
| 3 | People going and collecting and I 'm hoping first prize winner 's there . |
| 4 | Sorry , that was , I 'm sorry , you 've spo I 'm sorry you 've spoken , I 'm just commenting will you be quiet please , I 'm taking next speaker . |
| 5 | One with wounds to his leg , I 'm administering first aid ’ |
| 6 | This this is what I 'm saying last time that if you 'll work through it , understand it , Oh yeah I can do that , |
| 7 | When I found out that we had been placed next to each other in class with all my friends around I went , ‘ Oh no , I 'm sitting next to Grant ’ . |
| 8 | And I 'm sitting next to you right . |
| 9 | There 's no way I 'm sitting next |
| 10 | Now I 'm having second thoughts . |
| 11 | Not surprisingly I 'm having second thoughts — ’ |
| 12 | Now then , I like the new look — ’ Sarella had had her hair cropped ‘ — and was thinking of putting you in for the ingénue , but I 'm having second thoughts . ’ |
| 13 | I 'm going first |
| 14 | I 'm going first ! |
| 15 | I 'm going next door . |
| 16 | Yeah because I 'm doing second year abnormal from two til three so you might be able to catch me at three |
| 17 | I forget what I 'm doing next |
| 18 | Michael , I 'm starting first . |
| 19 | I 'm starting first ! |
| 20 | Well they 've wanted a mid-field player and a good striker , now people well write letters to local press informing them of this , but they do n't seem to be prepared to do this , they , the managers want to do their own thing as far as I can see they think the people on the terraces do n't know anything , but Jim and I were saying last night they wanted a mid-field player for ages now all this season , a ball winner , they have n't had one since Willie used to play and |
| 21 | I was refusing second helpings of food , asking unfailingly for small helpings , and skipping optional meals like tea or Sunday breakfast . |
| 22 | I was breathing and I could hear sort of I was thinking first of all it was coming from , you know somewhere outside like somebody |
| 23 | I was trying last year to try to see if I could get a erm an Indian , you know when we sort of do looking at Asia |
| 24 | I was playing last night Got ta learn this album I used to have ages and ages ago fucking . |
| 25 | Now , my theory that I was proposing last week about preferential parental investment in sexy sons or little boys who showed phallic behaviour , is a consequence of the Trivers Willard principle , because basically what it says is that little boys who advertised , as it were , in their childhood , evidence of their own adult reproductive success by precocious sexuality towards the women of the family and aggression towards the males , might be rewarded by preferential parental investment , a Trivers Willard effect in other words , and if , when they grew up , those oedipal sexy sons were in fact more reproductively successful , then the result would be a kind of self-perpetuating cycle of parental investment in oedipal sons who then grew up to be more reproductively successful than non-oedipal sons and , and so on . |
| 26 | You knew before you shut your door in my face last night that I was having second thoughts ! ’ |
| 27 | COLBERT : I was sitting next to Bob Mcknight , and five seconds before it happened I said to Bob , the only person who can fuck this up is Tom Carroll . |
| 28 | I was sitting next to Professor St John Goth , who 's a long established member of the Circle , and often lectures at our meetings . |
| 29 | I was sitting next to Alex chatting . |
| 30 | I was sitting next to Mrs Gorman , and as usual Mrs Gorman was being very bright and amusing . |