Example sentences of "[pron] be [v-ing] [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It were bad where erm Have I been talking in that thing all time ? |
| 2 | When asked whether a general hostage settlement was close Pérez de Cuéllar said in Tehran that " I am moving in that direction " . |
| 3 | It all makes me even more angry at the injustice of the situation , and then I worry that I am passing on that anger when I 'm with the boys . ’ |
| 4 | These Societies were in opposition to the differentiation and autonomization model of modernity that I am using in this paper . |
| 5 | As a mother I am looking at this girl . |
| 6 | If I am writing on this side of the paper I can not at the same moment be writing on the other side . |
| 7 | Another is why I am writing in this composition book . |
| 8 | Nadia : I am from the General Union of Palestinian Women and it 's good that I am participating in this meeting at this time because I am having major problems with the British Feminist Movement and the Western feminist line . |
| 9 | I should like to make it clear from the outset that I am participating in this conference not as an expert on any aspect of the teaching of languages , but rather as someone whose primary concern is with the structure of language and , more generally , the nature of cognitive processes . |
| 10 | I am bashing on all speed with the job . |
| 11 | The point I am labouring at such length is that there is a large and complicated repertoire of non-verbal behaviour without which it is impossible to communicate meanings through the medium of spoken words and although it is tempting to regard this non-lexical repertoire as something which can be painlessly removed without any significant loss of meaning , the experience of reconstructing talk from a medium in which the representation of this aspect of speech is so poor is a salutary reminder of its importance . |
| 12 | I am doing that more and more now when I am stretched and I think I am improving in that area . ’ |
| 13 | But the case is different of course in modes of language use which are non-reciprocal , of which what I am doing at this moment is an obvious example . |
| 14 | A paying consumer at least feels he or she can say , ‘ I am paying for this service . |
| 15 | For instance , when I am sitting on this chair , how do you want me to appear ? etc. , etc . ’ |
| 16 | It will be so long as I am sitting in this office . ’ |
| 17 | I hope that it will come about under the Portuguese presidency , and I am working towards that end ; but it must be an end that does not discriminate against Scottish farmers or British farmers generally . |
| 18 | I am working on another case . |
| 19 | But I am going in that direction . |
| 20 | I 'm hoping in some way we can stop it happening again . |
| 21 | I 'm thinking about this thing , new what sort of representative sample , where they get the whole thing random , I think they just go and knock at doors , take out every so many names off the list |
| 22 | Whilst I 'm thinking of that notice the way I into the middle of the plate . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm building towards another firing , but it 's slow … getting things right … not getting in my own way . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm listening to some music . |
| 25 | No we 're not , I 'm listening to some music |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm looking for this girl . |
| 27 | Oh it 's not a case of putting the world to rights I 'm looking for this bacon |
| 28 | I 'm looking for another entrance . |
| 29 | And if every , everybody brings a friend then you 're looking at fifty people , and I 'm not looking at fifty people , I 'm looking at this lot . |
| 30 | The drawing packages I 'm looking at this month have more widespread practical use than the painting packages I reviewed last month . |