Example sentences of "[am/are] [v-ing] [conj] [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 I am writing as I disagree with various comments made in an article entitled A Pair of Glasses … by Linda Lewis , as I feel that it gave Indian Glassfish a very negative press .
2 ‘ I want to make it absolutely clear , ’ said Angalo slowly , as a great feathery head nabbled in the water a few inches away , ‘ that if you 're suggesting that we ride on a geese — ‘
3 ‘ You 're suggesting that I go to him ? ’ she 'd hissed .
4 Almost , but erm one could certainly arrive at a situation of the sort you 're imagining that we want to be sure that when we look at some very exotic phenomena in the past of the universe , which has no parallel on earth , erm or in our vicinity , how can we be sure that the laws of physics that we 've deduced on earth really apply ?
5 If you 're wondering whether it sounds like a thirty year-old Strat , the answer is an obvious ‘ no ’ .
6 I 'm not saying that there 's any strict word answers to these questions , but these are the questions we 're asking when we think about what 's erm accidental and what 's essential to someone .
7 ‘ Now we 're saying that there has to be a complete ban on overtime and that they should resist moral blackmail . ’
8 But we 're saying if you look at , right , these two factors , one is the you 've got land reform er on absolute egal du n no what you call it grounds , the other is that you 're getting the peasants to do it themselves
9 I do n't , I do n't I mean I do n't quite agree with what you 're saying cos you seem to be saying whatever party 's in power in local government it 's gon na be exactly the same
10 I said you overtime you 're moaning cos you got ta do , oh yeah we 're always
11 I just have to put it on when we 're talking and it goes on the tape you see
12 Jobs with the bigger practices have practically dried up , so we 're finding that we have to be much more flexible in the type of experience we 'll accept — a year working on a site for Wimpey , for example . ’
13 No , not now , our schedules are perfect with that they 're planning cos I spoke to the other day
14 It appears that the dads who are already paying are the one 's who are paying and nobody seems to chasing after the others .
15 According to Bernard Asbell , author of The Book Of You , wedded couples do n't feel the need to look into each other 's eyes when they are speaking because they feel at ease with each other .
16 Ms Khudiakova herself may , from time to time during the week of the show , model some of the 20 outfits — a red silk skirt patterned with the heads of workers who look as if they are marching when you walk in it , a red evening dress decorated with a swath of flowers reminiscent of the relief on a pavilion in Moscow 's Stalin-era Exhibition of Economic Achievements .
17 In a letter to Hopkins on the Southampton situation dated 10 August 1911 , he wrote " all the reforms the Southampton people are asking for we discussed at the Executive Meeting before the strike took place and we were all agreed that certain alterations had to take place , but when women and children are starving in one port and there is money locked up in Southampton I think it is one of the most cruel tragedies imaginable " .
18 ‘ You can not always guarantee that you will always be in control of what you are doing as we live in a culture that is soaked in violence , and so it seems to think that violence is acceptable , even normal . ’
19 However , now that it is necessary to identify the functions the judges are performing when they sit as visitors in cases which are concerned with the question whether people are fit and proper persons to become or remain barristers , we must for the first time examine their function in that context alone .
20 I said what really bugs me is when I 'm driving and you come from behind somebody and then somebody overtakes you and .
21 Yes of course yeah , but the , you know , we , we have to , I have to make a report and I have to recommend so I 'm recommending that we forget about the three-way stuff .
22 ‘ , ‘ I 'm obsessing when I want to be impacting . ’
23 All the time we are learning whether we want to or not .
24 Unfortunately many modern anthropologists are very vague as to which of these different objections they are making when they object to ‘ evolutionism ’ in general .
25 What I am feeling as I listen to this is a strange movement in the undergrowth immediately in front of me ; a smile spreading inside my beard …
26 My mother 's ears are burning and she squirms in her seat .
27 There was an offer in the letter if my memory 's correct but it did n't actually specify what their offer was and really I think what the Council want to do is exactly what they are offering because we have to be minded all the time that the that er applicant does not own all the land and , and certainly it is , is , is the wish I think of this Council , I believe unanimously , and , and I think a lot of the residents , that we do somehow acquire a pedestrian link .
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