Example sentences of "i [be] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | How long had I been doing this without a break ? |
| 2 | Well what have I been doing ? |
| 3 | Each day , when Tod and I are done with the Gazette , we take it back to the store . |
| 4 | Henry and I are doing it , as the resident textile rescue-squad . |
| 5 | Ian and I are doing what any neighbouring colleagues would do in similar circumstances — and this helping-out is bearing fruit . |
| 6 | ‘ To paint Darlington as a jobs blackspot is not just factually wrong , it is also very damaging to the work the council and I are doing to attract new investment . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I do n't consider myself an idiot and anyone who says I am does n't know what they 're talking about . |
| 8 | If I am to do what you asked , he wrote , you will have to co-operate . |
| 9 | I am staying for a few days at the Dale End Hotel while I explore the district , and I 'd like to know about the Brownies ' Bridge , as I am to do with Brownies . ’ |
| 10 | If I am to do better than merely throw up my hands and assert that Alison Kraemer was in some indefinable way ‘ the real , right thing ’ , then I would suggest that the distinguishing characteristic of her ascendancy was the way she denied you any possibility of mitigating it . |
| 11 | Now tell me what I am to do with you . |
| 12 | I am done with you ; you may lead your lives as you wish . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ My husband and my children are Welsh , and my guests here appreciate what I am doing . |
| 14 | If it really is the case that all I am doing when I have beliefs about the world is to have dispositions to behave , then it ought to make sense for me to think of my believing in those terms . |
| 15 | ‘ I am doing — ’ Raskolnikov began reluctantly and grimly . |
| 16 | There is , of course , nothing to prevent an academic from criticizing professionalism , which is indeed what I am doing now . |
| 17 | ‘ I am doing this in the interest of the great majority of our people , ’ she said . |
| 18 | I am doing this because I think I ought to and am in the position to do so . ’ |
| 19 | I am not rejecting the idea of Jesus being my representative — all I am doing at the moment is to point out some difficulties with it when it is considered as the central idea in the atonement theory . |
| 20 | It is better if I wait until the morning when I can see what I am doing . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ You must be the one to tell me I am doing the right thing . ’ |
| 22 | I wo n't say anything now , but when we come to the recapitulation you 'll know what I am doing , and we 'll see what you do ’ . |
| 23 | If I can wave to that group of kids and they go home and talk about it , fantastic , or if I can just sign a measly bit of paper for a kid and he 's so stunned he ca n't talk , that really brings home to me what I am doing it for : because it really makes me feel good . ’ |
| 24 | For now I want to devote my all to what I am doing now . |
| 25 | I am doing that more and more now when I am stretched and I think I am improving in that area . ’ |
| 26 | Tension can be created either by the sponsor 's subtle , superior position of detachment : ‘ I am only here to describe the problems ; you are the ones who will have to face them ’ , or , quite differently , a hint of ‘ I know more than I am going to tell ’ , or its cruder version : ‘ I am doing a good salesman 's job and you are going to fall for it ’ . |
| 27 | She was thinking , I am doing something terrible and stupid , I am destroying myself even more , I am weakening myself , I am breaking . |
| 28 | I try not to think about it ; I just block it all out and concentrate on what I am doing in the ring . |
| 29 | You can control the amount of ‘ sink ’ by either pulling up , as I am doing here , or pushing down on the boom . |
| 30 | Every time I have to strike my heart is in my mouth , and although I do not consciously hold back when I strike , I wonder if I am doing so without being aware of it . |