Example sentences of "i [modal v] be [v-ing] my [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must be losing my head , she thought . |
| 2 | I must be losing my touch . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Maybe this year is just a bit too early for me , but I should be reaching my peak in the two or three years after that — who knows ? ’ |
| 4 | I read when I should be doing my homework . |
| 5 | ‘ Mandy , I might be losing my job , and you 're contemplating the intrigue of bad-tempered men . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I 'll be telling my guy to come with a shotgun . |
| 7 | And I 'll be chancing my luck … at the Ferret Road Show.Back in a minute . |
| 8 | I 'll be bringing my DJ . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ But if I do n't sit in my seat , I 'll be leaving my wife and my wife 's mother on their own . ’ |
| 10 | Any suggestions on where to get the book book because now once again the Dillons I 'll be getting my plane ticket ready to go home and then I also wrote a cheque with this one , one book store out at er erm , I forget the name of it , but it 's out at er Finchley Road , it 's supposed to specialize in |
| 11 | If I do n't go , I 'll be breaking my promise . |
| 12 | You 'll still be working up at the farm and I 'll be having my midday meals up there , same as I do now . |
| 13 | That 's what he 's doing in the kitchen washing the , cos Paul says if you 're back late I 'll be having my dinner before you come , I says okay . |
| 14 | ‘ My feet are killing me ; I 'll be making my way back , ’ I said , sitting down suddenly . |
| 15 | I 'll be booking my ticket when I 'm ready . ’ |
| 16 | Sack this tadger immediately — or I 'll be cancelling my order for Sounds . |
| 17 | Sack this tadger immediately — or I 'll be cancelling my order for Sounds . |
| 18 | I 'm not gon na tell you cos I 'll be showing my age then . |
| 19 | I 'll be keeping my eye on future developments in piezoelectric inkjet technology . |
| 20 | Then I 'll be reviewing my future again , ’ says Adam . |
| 21 | I feel like I can be contributed towards for I must admit that , I do feel as though I could be pulling my weight a bit , especially when Chris worries about money . |
| 22 | And then I 'd be wearing my cap back to front for a day or so . |
| 23 | However , thought she , it would be right to take the children , which I did — thus proving , not for the first the last time , I 'd be wasting my time applying for the Mensa test . |
| 24 | I 'd be wasting my time — and yours ! ’ she added bitterly . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've a feeling I 'd be wasting my time . |
| 26 | When I graduated in Economic and Social History from Bristol in 1982 I had no idea that I would be earning my living as a thatcher , one of the few women working in that field , some eight years later . |
| 27 | I would be wasting my time , unless some theory had been proposed rendering the weight of earlobes important , such as a theory connecting the size of earlobes with the incidence of cancer in some way . |
| 28 | There were no decent men on my own horizons and I already feared that I would be spending my life alone . |
| 29 | An integral part of any theory of personhood concerns inner states of all kinds , and I shall be centring my discussion on indigenous ideas relating to some inner states important to the Chewong , an understanding of which , I shall argue , is necessary in order to understand their interpersonal behaviour and associated values . |
| 30 | But if I tell her the truth and insist upon it , I shall be disobeying my husband and causing his mother unnecessary worry , she reflected , and was forced to accept that having made a cross for her back , she would have to bear it . |