Example sentences of "am [verb] to do be " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I am seeking to do is to outline a model of language use . |
| 2 | What I am seeking to do is to go and support Conservative candidates up and down the country and I 'm supporting many of them during this local election campaign . |
| 3 | And erm he actually , he , he started off and , and was very nervous but the summing up of it was , was brilliant erm and I , I would n't put it across as well as what he did but the principle of it was that he , he suddenly turned round and said right I have now changed my job , right , you are now looking at the new managing director of Friends Provident , he says , and the first thing I am going to do is I 'm cutting all your wages to eighty five pounds a week , what are you going to do about it ? |
| 4 | What I am trying to do is identify genetic potential long before the birth of the infant , and therefore long before he has been affected by his environment . |
| 5 | And before you , you have that update what I am trying to do is to list all of the recommendations we obtained in respect of the report and they are actually three - one , to three - twenty and then we put paragraph two on each of those recommendations to bring you up to date on what the service is doing . |
| 6 | What I am trying to do is to , is to question the wisdom of introducing more rules and regulations and every time I try and raise this issue , whether it be in standing committee or on the floor of the house , quite understandably the chairman or the speaker , deputy speaker in your case , raises the point that in fact I 'm going outside the rules and regulations and the result is you can never challenge the whole principle because every time one tries to challenge it one gets up and that 's the disease I 'm afraid we 've now er facing in this country . |
| 7 | Though what I am trying to do is just explore all these possible lines of thoughts erm in a political way , alright , but they do n't work out neatly and these critics got quite excited about so I thought I ought to point them out to you but you 're quite right in pointing out that they do n't work out neatly , O K. So we 've got to , where have we got to with George ? |
| 8 | ‘ I just show the prisoners a picture of an aborted baby and I say to them if I had done that to a baby I deserve to be here , but what I am trying to do is prevent it happening . ’ |