Example sentences of "i [am/are] [adv] [v-ing] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 I plead , as I am also pleading to myself .
2 Thorfinn said , ‘ I am not dealing with your brother-in-law , or your son , or your nephew .
3 Yet , I am not writing about him for the above reasons , it 's rather on account of an unlikely weakness of his than for one of his many strengths .
4 But , equally , I am not reporting on my state of mind ( 20–21 , 26 , 36 , 41 , 44 , 47 , etc . ) .
5 The truth is I am not speaking to your father . ’
6 Now this Act will bind six thousand of us — I am not speaking in my own interest , I am well past the age — but this Act will empty the glens of the young active men — and how can they marry if they are in barracks and camps in England , or in France if you send them there — you say you will not …
7 The hon. Member for Stirling ( Mr. Forsyth ) — I am not complaining about him , so I do not apologise for not having given him notice that I should raise the point — uses the crest of the House of Commons on his parliamentary report .
8 I honestly do not see anything wrong with that , and I am not complaining about it .
9 He replied , ‘ Herr Karajan , do you imagine that I am not listening to what you are doing ?
10 ‘ He said ‘ it 's not bad , is it ’ , but I have seen it before at different levels and I am not looking at it too much at this stage .
11 I am not inferring from what I see that there is a sheep in the field ; I take myself simply to see that there is one .
12 There is the dispositional fact that I believe my name is what it is , which is a fact about me when I am not thinking of my name .
13 She is pleasant enough but how reliable I can not say and I am not depending on her for the birth .
14 Dozzell says : ‘ Ipswich is a great club , but I am not rushing into anything .
15 I am not laughing at you , Schatzie .
16 And then Jean said she 's gon na ask your daddy to get a banger , and you 're coming with us as I know this , I am not going with you .
17 I am not going on my own .
18 I am not going on it , said the Lapp , I am coming off it .
19 ‘ And I am not talking to him in the other room . ’
20 I am not coming to your room ! ’
21 It is necessary for us to settle on a royalty rate for overseas duplication of titles , and it is this I am now writing to you about .
22 It is necessary for us to settle on a royalty rate for overseas duplication of titles , and it is this I am now writing to you about .
23 I am now entering on my sixty-fourth [ ? ] year ; and bless God , I am still hearty and well …
24 Hence we form a naïve idea of it that does not correspond to reality at all ( 111 ) , based perhaps — I am now going beyond what Wittgenstein says — on some superficial resemblance between the grammar of ‘ I thought … ’ and ‘ I felt … ’ ( cf. 7 ) .
25 I am now going through my ‘ it does n't matter ’ stage .
26 I am only looking at them .
27 I am only asking for my costs of £5,500 as I had to employ a barrister myself .
28 ‘ Sometimes I am still thinking about it half an hour later .
29 I am still going through them and am constantly surprised by what I discover .
30 I am still waiting for what happened to Dylan to happen to me .
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