Example sentences of "[pron] i [be] doing " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You must be the one to tell me I am doing the right thing . ’ |
| 2 | People keep coming in and telling me I 'm doing wonderfully — but where 's the baby ? |
| 3 | ‘ Isabelle , if you wo n't do me I 'm doing meself . ’ |
| 4 | I I 'm doing a thousand mile a week ! |
| 5 | And erm but I mean I remember when I I was doing er work with the Open University now I was a sort of er tutor with them or counsellor with them and I think we used to say ten to fifteen hours work a week |
| 6 | Well I I was doing |
| 7 | Which I 'm doing . |
| 8 | ‘ My dear Juliet , how many more times do I have to tell you I 'm doing this because it interests me ? |
| 9 | Incidentally everything I 'm I 'm doing here whoops everything I 'm doing here with you all the two days here is in thought patterns . |
| 10 | It must have been something I was doing . |
| 11 | Because it 's something I 'm doing and I 've just recorded all our conversation here |
| 12 | It 's something I 'm doing at the moment . |
| 13 | was the er , one I , the one I 'm doing too well . |
| 14 | see instead of doing the one I 'm doing and just taking a little bit of money , I could go and start up another one |
| 15 | From the off he had me convinced that by helping him I was doing no more than carving out a new life for myself as a better citizen , a better human being . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'd told her I was doing contract construction work in the Middle East . |
| 17 | ‘ My husband and my children are Welsh , and my guests here appreciate what I am doing . |
| 18 | There is , of course , nothing to prevent an academic from criticizing professionalism , which is indeed what I am doing now . |
| 19 | It is better if I wait until the morning when I can see what I am doing . ’ |
| 20 | 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 ’ . |
| 21 | 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 . ’ |
| 22 | For now I want to devote my all to what I am doing now . |
| 23 | I try not to think about it ; I just block it all out and concentrate on what I am doing in the ring . |
| 24 | That means not just searching for subject matter , but constantly reevaluating what I am doing and why . |
| 25 | What I am doing at the moment — pretending to have given up while backsliding every chance I get — is marginally better than full-time smoking ; the trouble is that it runs every risk of turning into it . |
| 26 | I fully understand what I am doing but I can not stop . |
| 27 | I want to be able to sit with friends around a dinner table and not think about what I am doing . |
| 28 | ‘ What I am doing breaks all the rules . |
| 29 | One has to be very clear-headed to do what I am doing . |
| 30 | 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 . |