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Example sentences of "i [be] doing " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	How long had I been doing this without a break ?
2	Well what have I been doing ?
3	Henry and I are doing it , as the resident textile rescue-squad .
4	Ian and I are doing what any neighbouring colleagues would do in similar circumstances — and this helping-out is bearing fruit .
5	‘ 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 . ’
6	‘ My husband and my children are Welsh , and my guests here appreciate what I am doing .
7	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 .
8	‘ I am doing — ’ Raskolnikov began reluctantly and grimly .
9	There is , of course , nothing to prevent an academic from criticizing professionalism , which is indeed what I am doing now .
10	‘ I am doing this in the interest of the great majority of our people , ’ she said .
11	I am doing this because I think I ought to and am in the position to do so . ’
12	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 .
13	It is better if I wait until the morning when I can see what I am doing . ’
14	‘ You must be the one to tell me I am doing the right thing . ’
15	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 ’ .
16	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 . ’
17	For now I want to devote my all to what I am doing now .
18	I am doing that more and more now when I am stretched and I think I am improving in that area . ’
19	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 ’ .
20	She was thinking , I am doing something terrible and stupid , I am destroying myself even more , I am weakening myself , I am breaking .
21	I try not to think about it ; I just block it all out and concentrate on what I am doing in the ring .
22	You can control the amount of ‘ sink ’ by either pulling up , as I am doing here , or pushing down on the boom .
23	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 .
24	I am doing the firm no harm by tipping you off like this because Kovacs recommends you to buy a clock from them that will not simply tell you the time .
25	A question to ask yourself is this : ‘ What is more important , the job that I am doing or myself ? ’
26	That means not just searching for subject matter , but constantly reevaluating what I am doing and why .
27	My dealer says I am doing all the right things and that it 's fairly usual to lose fish with a new tank .
28	I will become so deeply interested in whatever I am doing … in whatever is going on around me … my mind will become completely distracted away from myself .
29	I will be able to give my whole undivided attention to whatever I am doing … to the complete exclusion of everything else .
30	When I first began the work that I am doing now , I decided to keep an open mind about the topic ; but , as time has progressed , I have been able to record details of fact , time and place given to me by my patients which have later been checked and confirmed and found to be wholly accurate .