Example sentences of "what i be [verb] be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I am doing is leaving that literature to one side and considering factors that have been found to affect performance at work . |
| 2 | But what I am doing is giving you the opportunity to prove me wrong . |
| 3 | What I 'm doing is getting stuck into erotic literature and pornography : the club has a fascinating , not to say incredible , collection , and I ca n't imagine the opportunity is likely to arise again . |
| 4 | ‘ What I 'm doing is dragging pool up by the scruff of the neck : it 's gon na be shaken clean . ’ |
| 5 | And in a sense it happens to be English language and English literature that I teach , but I do n't really think I 'm teaching that , what I 'm doing is helping people to think , hopefully , and have ideas and excite them about ideas and think about themselves and the way they live . |
| 6 | And I 'm not threatening you ; what I 'm doing is making you an offer . |
| 7 | And that is is is not what I get cos what I was doing is doing them meself and then |
| 8 | Er yes Chair , first of all the the last point first as it were , the erm Senior Inspector is quite correct what I was doing was allocating the nine seven figure that the County had proposed in H One , er that 's why it does n't add up add up to ten four , clearly I have n't done the calculations for ten four , but on the basis that erm there are seven hundred extra dwellings going into Ryedale , I think Mr Donson can work that one out . |
| 9 | ‘ When I was talking to him , he had this habit of looking over my head and I wondered whether what I was saying was going in , but he was digesting it and seeing how he could turn it round to his way of doing things . |