Example sentences of "[pers pn] [am/are] [v-ing] be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is them that I am appealing to somebody because of the erm the the th thought transference that I am using is feeling now compelled to pick up the phone O nine O four six four one six four one . |
| 2 | What I am doing is leaving that literature to one side and considering factors that have been found to affect performance at work . |
| 3 | But what I am doing is giving you the opportunity to prove me wrong . |
| 4 | So you mean everything I 'm saying is going on tape ? |
| 5 | ‘ What I 'm doing is dragging pool up by the scruff of the neck : it 's gon na be shaken clean . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | And I 'm not threatening you ; what I 'm doing is making you an offer . |
| 9 | All I 'm doing is trading your debt for your time . ’ |
| 10 | All I 'm doing is protecting her — from you . ’ |
| 11 | Because , remember , what you are doing is telling a story , It is a story in an atmosphere of suspense and romance but first and foremost it is a story and everything , descriptions of settings , action scenes , characters , intriguing background or intriguing interest in the heroine must be subordinated to that overriding need . |
| 12 | When you make an assertion , what you are doing is telling your reader something you think is true . |
| 13 | What you are doing is taking a mature view of the situation . |
| 14 | What you are doing is taking a mature view of the situation . |
| 15 | ‘ I warn you , major , you may think you are acting in the interests of your men , but all you are doing is ruining your own career . ’ |
| 16 | And yet all you are doing is reading a book . |
| 17 | What you are doing is giving away many of your best leaders . |
| 18 | All you are doing is hurting your own community . ’ |
| 19 | What you are doing is feeling the music so deeply that you are playing a 5/4 bar . |
| 20 | ‘ How can you stand there talking about bits of paper and profits and money … money , ’ she made the word into an excrescence , ‘ when what you are doing is playing with a human soul . |
| 21 | ‘ What you 're suggesting is degrading to me . |
| 22 | The light that 's coming out of the if if you 're shining a torch like this okay ? the light you 're shining is going away from you okay ? |
| 23 | I 'm here , the money you 're paying is going to the Treasury , not to your son ? |
| 24 | Fine er what we 're , what we 're saying to you basically is , right , and , and another thing you 're doing is proving that you 're capable of doing it , now if I was training you from cold , right , and you had n't done it |
| 25 | All you 're doing is causing us both a whole lot of inconvenience by this irrational behaviour . ’ |
| 26 | If you all disappeared together that would be , that is a fair criticism of the training department , but if it 's just the fact that all you 're doing is switching off then that 's O K because you ca n't help it anyway . |
| 27 | I just wondered what your response to it was , seeing as er what you 're doing is getting information to which you 're not entitled , and selling it for money to other people . |
| 28 | ‘ At a hundred feet , ’ he said , ‘ all you 're doing is warning him that you 're there . ’ |
| 29 | And all you 're doing is warning them that they will , the things will be there and we 'll make sure that if a emergency vehicle comes along erm |
| 30 | All you 're doing is taping normal conversations . |