Example sentences of "i [be] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 31 | Hi , this is the first time I am posting to the list . |
| 32 | I think I am beginning to be very much afraid of what Raynor is taking me to . |
| 33 | The experience of being on Iona is nothing less than magical and I am moved to tears . |
| 34 | As I watch , I am quickening to the single thought that this man , for these few moments , is probably running faster than any other man one earth . |
| 35 | I should also like to know what I am to say to Oatridge , St. Kentigerns and other people who are involved at a practical level . |
| 36 | It would be interesting to know whether Petrey really does hold the views I am attributing to him , and whether he thinks that speech act theories of semantics are therefore based on a fundamental error . |
| 37 | Those who pursue comparisons of the kind I am referring to are likely to be impressed by the staying-power of a literary preoccupation to which a variety of temperaments and compulsions has been attracted , and could well be inclined to believe that Pechorin 's duel and indifference may have been among the precedents that weighed , a century later , with a woman bent on contriving her appointment with destiny . |
| 38 | But the disobedience I am referring to here is of a very particular kind . |
| 39 | I am referring to Dr. Bach Flower Remedies , a mixed distillation of which I had been prescribed and acquired at Bristol . |
| 40 | I am referring to a level of promiscuity which even the most liberal heterosexual would regard as immoral . |
| 41 | When I refer to the ‘ Popular Purgatory ’ I am referring to the Purgatory which is most widely known — the place referred to in Roman Catholic teaching and which is said to be arrived at after death . |
| 42 | I am referring to the work of the Council of Europe ( see Trim et al . |
| 43 | The letter I am referring to now at the moment is a particular token instance of letter as a lexical item , a general conceptual type , a codified abstraction . |
| 44 | I did actually get over to work for them in 1968–70 and 1971 , but this story I am referring to was in 1967 when I was just paying a visit and was given a bed for the night in the hostel . |
| 45 | By ‘ accepted meaning ’ I am referring to one accepted by participants in the phenomena — it is clearly constituted for Barthes as an interpretation against which he is speaking . |
| 46 | By wishes I am referring to the internal directions and aspirations that people have for their own professional lives and development : their preferences , their ambitions , their chosen career path , their enthusiasms and above all their values . |
| 47 | I am referring to their EMI recording of Nicholas Maw 's great work Odyssey . |
| 48 | The three small inner-city communities that we studied in this way would have been assumed by traditional scholars to be homogeneous in language , and the fine-grained but systematic variation I am referring to here would not have been thought possible . |
| 49 | When I say " The oldest tree in the park is an oak " , I am referring to the the tall tree of rich foliage standing half-way between the eastern gate and children 's playing ground . |
| 50 | My children will have already guessed that I am referring to a brandade . |
| 51 | " I am referring to this . " |
| 52 | ‘ Forgive me , my lord , but the matter I am referring to is in the second file . |
| 53 | What I am referring to is elementary structural-functionalist sociology , in which modernization is seen as a process of structural differentiation ( Ausdifferenzierung ) . |
| 54 | ‘ My friend : I am referring to you . |
| 55 | ‘ I am referring to that foolish note you wrote me , ’ Theda said , winding her hair into a plait as she spoke , her voice deliberately cool over the tremors inside her . |
| 56 | I am referring to the machine tool industry , which is a key industry now suffering and struggling to keep seventh place in the world . |
| 57 | The incident I am referring to is the government 's plan to shrink and disband many major regiments throughout Britain . |
| 58 | That is I think that when I refer to and when I refer to I am referring to the same thing |
| 59 | I AM referring to the letter in last week 's ISN from the enlightened Glenman ( ha ha ) . |
| 60 | The type of abortion I am referring to is induced and I believe that the woman should be given the right to be able to choose whether she needs one , rather than certain religious leaders or laws . |