Example sentences of "[conj] i am [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have a battle to win and would ask only that I am given the chance to do so without intrusion in my private life . |
| 2 | By the time we get to the jarv tracks I am over it , putting it down to a poor night 's sleep and a wearing day that have combined so that I am feeling the cold more than I normally do . |
| 3 | Rain pours down the window panes of my London flat and I am reading the letters of black political prisoners in the country I was born in . |
| 4 | Instead we are now saying , ‘ I know this diet and exercise plan is working for me ’ , ‘ this time I am going to reach my weight and inch goal ’ , ‘ because I never feel hungry and I am eating the foods I enjoy , I do n't even feel as though I 'm dieting ’ . |
| 5 | And Petrarch lived quite near here in Avignon , and I am seeing the same cypresses and oleanders … |
| 6 | And I am disturbing the veils , she thought . |
| 7 | This production is set in 1951 and I am playing the mistress the way Coward intended when he wrote the comedy . ’ |
| 8 | And I am going into the light and I am going into time , and if I am to save the world , then I shall have served the world , and if I do not save the world , then at least I shall have tried . |
| 9 | If I set out to do something now , I will do it and I wo n't worry if I am making the right impression — if I fit in . |
| 10 | I do n't know if I am doing the right thing , but I want to make her feel safe . |
| 11 | Peter Cole , chairman of Bramshill Parish Council , in whose bailiwick the town would have fallen , said : ‘ I might have an extra beer today , but I am saving the champagne for another 21 days . |
| 12 | But I am defending the fact that there is an |
| 13 | The reason why I consulted my brief was because I am to visit the Young Vic shortly and I was not certain whether the hon. Gentleman would appear on the stage or in the audience on that occasion . |
| 14 | ‘ There is no point ’ , she said , ‘ in you sitting in class doing nothing while I am teaching the rest of the form the two-times table and how to spell cat and rat and mouse . |
| 15 | ‘ While I am pursuing the offender I do not want blood on the streets . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ When I am finishing the book . |
| 17 | But pragmatism , as I am using the term here , is a function of pedagogic mediation whereby the relationship between theory and practice , ideas and their actualization , can only be realized within the domain of application , that is , through the immediate activity of teaching . |
| 18 | The crucial difference between economic growth and development , as I am using the term here , is that development may include everything that is already included in economic growth plus criteria of distribution of the social product and democratic politics . |
| 19 | Even as I am recounting the edited version , it occurs to me that Fairfax has probably been doing the same thing . |
| 20 | Then it happens to another dancer and , as I am watching the same pattern of recovery , the man next to me throws his arms into the air , totters forward and begins to experience apparently involuntary spasms . |
| 21 | Taylor said : ‘ The FA have always been good employers to all the previous managers who have suffered as I am suffering the kind of criticism that is about . |
| 22 | ‘ I think what I 'm asking for a pair of shoes is fair enough though I am keeping the prices low as an incentive for my customers to come back for more . ’ |
| 23 | So please keep our friendship as strong as ever , though I am losing the power to give it outward expression . |