Example sentences of "[verb] [that] [pron] [am/are] [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's not that I mind wasting my time , it 's just that I like to know that I 'm wasting my time . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Please believe me , this is my obstinacy — you are behaving honourably , honourably — I realise that I am jeopardising my chance of great happiness — but we know — both of us — there are times when the greatest danger has to be faced , the greatest risk taken because that small persistent voice will not allow us to escape our duty to ourselves . |
| 3 | I am sorry if the Minister finds it difficult to understand that , when I say ’ personally ’ in this respect , I mean that I am expressing my view and the view of my party . |
| 4 | Now the rate has halved because each of those estate agents has so many properties to sell that they are organising their own crowded sales . |
| 5 | The most frequently visible research is into the size and composition of the audience for specific programmes and commercial breaks , as a guide to the planner in selecting spot times and in evaluating what the schedule has achieved ; there is also research into the viewing patterns of the TV audience , to provide the basic data from which cumulative audiences and viewing frequencies can be calculated ; and research into audience behaviour and attention — when the research says that they are watching your commercial , what are they actually doing ? |
| 6 | My right hon. Friend says that we are to continue our tradition of offering a haven to refugees . |
| 7 | Certainly , you should make it clear by words or conduct that you are exercising your right to treat yourself as having been dismissed . |
| 8 | ‘ I can only repeat that you 're wasting your time with me . |
| 9 | After being responsible for your pet 's welfare for many years you may feel that you are repaying your pet 's love and loyalty by arranging for their death . |
| 10 | I might feel imagine now that I 'm a rather severe confessor , or a psychoanalyst faced with what I believe they call denial , or the flight into health ! — I might feel that you are concealing your deeper feelings from yourself . |
| 11 | Of course while they may be imagining that they are bending my ear and creating a good impression , they are also providing me with the kind of evidence I am looking for about the gendered and generational aspects of this kind of racism . |
| 12 | I quote from my account of it in a letter to Elizabeth , ten years later : it will be seen that I am answering her questions . |
| 13 | Monitoring rivals closely to copy good ideas and ensure that they are keeping their service in the forefront of developments |
| 14 | When you do get your orders back from HQ , you 'll see that you 're to withdraw your people and leave everything to us . |
| 15 | COOPERS & LYBRAND and Deloitte Haskins & Sells yesterday confirmed that they are to merge their UK practices to create the largest accountancy firm in the country with a fee income in excess of £413m . |
| 16 | You get to hear that I 'm sharing my house with a five-foot bombshell who can make a grown man go weak at a single glance , and you leap to the obvious conclusion . |
| 17 | This is usually recoupable , so the band should realize that they are spending their own money on tour , and not the record company 's . |
| 18 | Now the plot actual and fitted , right , so we try to explain the actual block of textile consumption as the blue line and to do that we are using our model with those fixed estimates , the incoming elasticity and the price elasticity . |
| 19 | However , I do n't see myself as a jack of all trades ; instead I believe that I am broadening my range of expertise while remaining a commercial lawyer . ’ |
| 20 | I find that I 'm questioning my own authority , which makes me think even more . |
| 21 | Certain tracks and off-course bookmakers must realise that they are rubbing our noses in the dirt . |
| 22 | If they face this honestly it is somehow less offensive than if they pretend that they are having their pets mutilated for ‘ the cat 's own good ’ . |
| 23 | Recently , US West and IBM have announced that they are to move their business headquarters to the United Kingdom . |
| 24 | Which may make her happy but means that I am losing my marbles , and Darius thinks I 've betrayed him , and Victor would swallow his cigar . |
| 25 | Using a variation ( possessive it 's ) means that you are asserting your right to your own language ; but you may well also alienate your reader , who might decide that , at least in her or his view , " you ca n't write properly " . |
| 26 | When you , when you think that they 're racking their brains and it |
| 27 | I just think that you 're wasting your time writing letters , making speeches , sending out all those pamphlets . |
| 28 | ‘ My friends think that I am losing my mind . |
| 29 | This is not to imply that they are exceeding their disciplinary mandate in examining topics which might be said to belong to some other discipline ; simply that their interests in doing so are different . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'd go so far as to say that you 're wasting your time even to think of applying for custody . ’ |