Example sentences of "what i [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Many of the men are black or half-caste descendants of freed Saharan slaves and I feel that what I am watching is not Islamic at root but a practice brought by their ancestors and grafted on to the religion . |
| 32 | Kermode sees this change — which is at the heart of what I am writing about — as having radical implications for letters , comparable to such things as the advent , first of printing and then of cheap paper ; the bourgeoisie 's greater leisure for private reading ; and the abandonment by circulating libraries of the three-volume novel , which had been the favoured vehicle for fiction during much of the nineteenth century : Kermode exaggerates a little , I think ; nothing in the establishment of university English is as important as the innovations in culture and technology which established the book in its modern form . |
| 33 | All the time you ought to be asking yourself : " why should anyone believe what I am writing ? " and " what have I noticed in the text or in background , contextual materials that makes me think this ? " |
| 34 | You might feel , you perhaps did feel , is it not astonishingly self-centred , is it not even offensively self-centred , this concern with his own greatness , his own importance , what I am writing now , what I shall achieve . |
| 35 | I have no compass to tell me what I am destined for ; and yet , when I look back , everything seems to fit as well together as if I 'd been following a benevolent daimon all along … |
| 36 | I know what I am become and so do you . ’ |
| 37 | It was at last year 's parade that Elham gave him the idea when she said : ‘ I wish I could enjoy what I am experiencing here , but back in my mind there are too many innocent children left with no hopes and no future . |
| 38 | That 's not what I am accusing you of . ’ |
| 39 | It is a book that I greatly admire , for in his own time its author succeeded in doing what I am struggling to do now . |
| 40 | I find myself turning to the first chapter of the Book of Genesis for an insight into what I am hinting at here . |
| 41 | I have a 48″×12″×18″ tank housing what I am led to believe is a Synodontis Schall Catfish of about six inches . |
| 42 | ‘ If I am not successful in finding what I am looking for I shall return and tell you . ’ |
| 43 | I believe you are exactly what I am looking for . |
| 44 | I see a man up on the hill , but when as the minutes pass he does not move it occurs to me that what I am looking at must be a stone . |
| 45 | I return to work on the spot with insights into what I am looking at and a clearer sense of intention . |
| 46 | He left when he was eighteen , presumably with the cry so often heard from those who look for instant wisdom in courses designed primarily to foster skills by which such discrimination may be attained : " the course can not give me what I am looking for " . |
| 47 | I do n't know what I am looking for , and I do n't find it . |
| 48 | No , what I am looking at are the first direct signals to reach me from the dark constellation of Serafin . |
| 49 | What I am seeking to do is to outline a model of language use . |
| 50 | However , I can tell the hon. Member for Banff and Buchan what I am seeking to achieve . |
| 51 | What I am seeking to do is to go and support Conservative candidates up and down the country and I 'm supporting many of them during this local election campaign . |
| 52 | ‘ I do not know what I am thinking . |
| 53 | There was a silence , and Taliesin felt Fael-Inis 's eyes boring into his mind again , and thought : of course he knows what I am thinking , and of course he knows what I am feeling . |
| 54 | What I am thinking ? ’ |
| 55 | He sees what I am thinking . |
| 56 | Now tell me what I am to do with you . |
| 57 | But greater than they is a sort of compulsion which comes on me , so that when I invent I scarcely know what I am inventing . |
| 58 | I ca n't believe what I am seeing . |
| 59 | Do you understand what I am trying to tell you , that I was filled with distaste for everything ? |
| 60 | What I am trying to do is identify genetic potential long before the birth of the infant , and therefore long before he has been affected by his environment . |