Example sentences of "'m [v-ing] you [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Griffith Williams QC , for the defence , said : ‘ I 'm suggesting you saw the knife a week earlier . ’ |
| 2 | Also I think you 'd find that the erm er although , now I 'm suggesting you do this , but if you went through the Independent and you counted the erm number of different words the total vocabulary , I think you 'd find it 's many many many many many many many times bigger than the |
| 3 | So what I 'm suggesting you do is , decide roughly what your categories are going to be , and write at the top of the in pencil , or on the tabs themselves in pencil , as to what you , you want them to be . |
| 4 | I 'm helping you to clear up . |
| 5 | No , I 'm not , I 'm helping you understand |
| 6 | I 'm using you like a nursemaid . |
| 7 | All he said was , " I 'm keepin' you busy this mornin , young man . |
| 8 | I 'm ill , I 'm dying you know . |
| 9 | Really what I 'm wanting you to tell me is how normal is that and |
| 10 | I 'm not lying , I 'm not saying I 'm , I 'm addressing you know , a national convention , or I 'm going to see the Queen , or whatever , I 'm just saying I ca n't see you that day . |
| 11 | ‘ As your boss , I 'm ordering you to go home , ’ he cut her short . |
| 12 | At least , it 's the job I 'm paying you to do . ’ |
| 13 | They do when they came in , and they want the stall made like this , and they would say , you know , well you know , I 'm paying you to finish that off , you know , how , your next , your next priority to do is this , and they eventually told me what they wanted , and you know , you get on with it . |
| 14 | ‘ All I 'm forcing you to do is face reality . |
| 15 | But I 'm begging you to tell the panel how to do it please . |
| 16 | I got ta watch what I 'm doing you know these are starting to grow up . |
| 17 | I hand them around just letting people know what I 'm doing you know . |
| 18 | But not the same thing what I 'm doing you see . |
| 19 | ‘ Maybe you do know more than I 'm giving you credit for , Cardiff , ’ said Rohmer . |
| 20 | Now I 'm letting you have a look at the sea before we call on her . |
| 21 | Erm , so what I 'm saying you know , as we go through this stuff , you , you , if you , if you discover that you do n't like some of it , you know , you 're not supposed to . |
| 22 | Well that 's what I 'm saying you 've got ta |
| 23 | think of your lad 's name and I 'm saying you give it to erm tt erm oh yeah I remember , but he 'd already told me off . |
| 24 | Absolutely that 's what exactly I 'm asking you to listen about . |
| 25 | So Madam I 'm asking you to say that these circumstances , this is the sort of case that should never have come before the court , it should 've been sorted out between the parties themselves , with the aid of their solicitors , and that it 's only the overreaction of the police in this particular circumstance that brings him before the court here . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm asking you to take it for me — because you always have my full confidence as my personal assistant . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm asking you to do something for me . |
| 28 | You return the twins to me and I wo n't blame you one bit for failing , because all I 'm asking you to do is to try . |
| 29 | " Doctor , " she replied , " All I 'm asking you to do is find something to break my eggs . " |
| 30 | The only thing I 'm asking you to do is put them in the diary now . |