Example sentences of "i [be] doing be " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I am doing is leaving that literature to one side and considering factors that have been found to affect performance at work . |
| 2 | Erm but one of the things that I am doing is over the next quarter with , various people begin to review the cleaning schedules of what they actually do , whether we clean them on a on a more frequent basis rather than just responding that particular area . |
| 3 | I should be feeling disloyal to Fergus , I should certainly be wondering if what I am doing is right , and if I am going to be hurt . |
| 4 | But what I am doing is giving you the opportunity to prove me wrong . |
| 5 | It is a lovely play and I am sorry to be leaving , but this is a very strenuous role , and what I am doing is perfectly normal . |
| 6 | Basically what I am doing is I want them to reply . |
| 7 | What I am doing is for the youngsters . ’ |
| 8 | I know what I 'm doing is so wrong . |
| 9 | ‘ What I 'm doing is dragging pool up by the scruff of the neck : it 's gon na be shaken clean . ’ |
| 10 | So I 'm uncomfortable , but in the positive sense that I did n't go to no acting school , so all I 'm doing is being myself . ’ |
| 11 | What I 'm doing is n't good enough . |
| 12 | And in a sense it happens to be English language and English literature that I teach , but I do n't really think I 'm teaching that , what I 'm doing is helping people to think , hopefully , and have ideas and excite them about ideas and think about themselves and the way they live . |
| 13 | ‘ All I 'm doing is being part of the quiet revival of the traditional novel , in which the commonplace doings and feelings of ordinary people are charted : the kind of novel that , with all the noise made in the past 25 years about the blockbuster and the literary novel , has been shouted down . |
| 14 | ‘ Knowing what I 'm doing is something I 'm better at in retrospect , ’ she admitted . |
| 15 | And I 'm not threatening you ; what I 'm doing is making you an offer . |
| 16 | All I 'm doing is trading your debt for your time . ’ |
| 17 | What I 'm doing is getting stuck into erotic literature and pornography : the club has a fascinating , not to say incredible , collection , and I ca n't imagine the opportunity is likely to arise again . |
| 18 | Basically what I 'm doing is |
| 19 | All I 'm doing is protecting her — from you . ’ |
| 20 | I 'm doing is smoking and eating . |
| 21 | What I 'm doing is I 'm taking her out . |
| 22 | I did n't see you , er all I 'm doing is like stopping at the end of the drive to light a fag up or something , she 's |
| 23 | That 's all I 'm doing is n't it ? |
| 24 | And that is is is not what I get cos what I was doing is doing them meself and then |
| 25 | Er yes Chair , first of all the the last point first as it were , the erm Senior Inspector is quite correct what I was doing was allocating the nine seven figure that the County had proposed in H One , er that 's why it does n't add up add up to ten four , clearly I have n't done the calculations for ten four , but on the basis that erm there are seven hundred extra dwellings going into Ryedale , I think Mr Donson can work that one out . |
| 26 | Erm well just as you come , that 's the best I felt all afternoon and I , all I was doing was playing peepo with them through me jumper , cos I games |
| 27 | It was , in fact , just a peculiarly rich and extended example , and the kind of thing I was doing was in principle applicable to great numbers of texts . |
| 28 | And the kind of thing I was doing was in principle applicable to great numbers of texts . |
| 29 | And that meant a lot to me at the time because all the paintings I was doing were subjects from my childhood years . |
| 30 | He said the traditional exercises I was doing were unimportant in comparison with the meditative disciplines I was experiencing whilst making music . |