Example sentences of "i [modal v] be [v-ing] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may not impress you , but there 's a man I should be defending in court all day , and it 's nearly dawn . |
| 2 | In the meantime , please do n't hesitate to contact me if there is anything urgent that I should be doing in connection with Olympus . |
| 3 | ‘ You had them all the time — you trailed me round — you bloody filthy lying bastard — you poked my head into every shit-bin in Bristol — you led me up hill and down dale till my feet were dropping off — you made me steal some people 's boat — I could 've been got by the police — I might be festering in jail now — handcuffed — criminal — you do n't care , you 're criminal anyway — I would n't be surprised if you 'd murdered half a dozen innocent people and cut them up and kept their pieces stashed away in the hole where you 've been hiding my bag and my things and my money and my dreams … ’ |
| 4 | To think I imagined I might be falling in love with him ! she thought , as she went into the kitchen . |
| 5 | I think I might be falling in love , the words kept running through her brain . |
| 6 | You know what I 've got ta bloody do yeah , to bring this back yeah , they 've asked me yeah to get up at ten thirty in the morning and go to the school on Monday when I could be lying in bed . |
| 7 | I shall be suggesting in Part Two that the basic idea of ‘ good ’ and ‘ bad ’ , and of all value , arises similarly from what feels good or bad to us , and that here again this good and bad which is demoted to the role of what only feels so is ultimately the value which is really there in the world , besides which the good and bad of our social construction of reality is only a kind of useful fiction . |
| 8 | The position I shall be advocating in part two has certain affinities with aspects of each of these views , yet each seems unsatisfactory as it stands . |
| 9 | Even the weaker version — that the theories simply implied a relationship between low social class and crime — came later to be dismissed as an artefact of class-biased law enforcement ( however , the argument about the relationship between social class and crime is a complex one to which I shall be returning in Part Two ) . |
| 10 | ‘ He has been offered a player/coach position at Exeter City and that 's obviously interesting him but I will be getting in touch with him before I go on holiday to see what he 's doing . |
| 11 | Consequently , this is the direction I will be taking in Part Two . |