Example sentences of "i [be] making " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is not just a point I am making in passing . |
| 2 | ‘ I am making every effort to avoid the inn being sold , ’ he said . |
| 3 | To loose them off together , scatter-gun fashion : Stavrogin says ‘ I am making this statement , incidentally , to prove I am in full possession of my mental faculties and understand my position ’ ; ‘ I want to forgive myself , this is my chief aim , my whole aim ’ ; ‘ I want everyone to look at me ’ ; ‘ I fall back on this as my last resource ’ ; ‘ The thing about me then was I felt bored with life , sick and tired of it ’ ; ‘ I am seeking boundless suffering ’ ; ‘ I took it into my head to mutilate my life somehow ’ ( not necessarily the same thing as seeking suffering , any more than seeking suffering need entail accepting it ) . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , yes , I must admit , ’ replies management , ‘ that I am making a good thing out of this , the best break we have had for years — you see , my methods of production are so cheap and efficient . ’ |
| 5 | This is emphatically not the claim I am making here . |
| 6 | The wind drops slightly as I am making myself another cup of tea and I like the idea of going out to watch the sun go down . |
| 7 | I tell them I am making a good living , that I can support a child , that I want a baby more than anything , but they refuse . ’ |
| 8 | The point I am making is that , from the viewpoint of scholarship , fundamentalism is dead , but it wo n't lie down at the grass roots level . |
| 9 | ‘ I am making us coffee . |
| 10 | I am making a speech tomorrow about film makers and journalists and the absolute obligation both of us have to express the truth about the complexity of the world . ’ |
| 11 | When the interviewer , Mr Jeremy Paxman , said he could not be serious Mr Ashdown replied : ‘ I am making very a serious comparison . |
| 12 | Even more relevant to the point I am making is the sudden realisation that this , as the name implies , is really a United Kingdom : a composite and diverse , not a monolithic structure And above all the discovery that there are parts of the UK which share with them a history of colonial or quasi-colonial exploitation , and where people speak of development problems in a language they understand . |
| 13 | The non-trivial point I am making is that the difference is not in the presence of an additional reason for action , but in the existence of a pre-emptive reason . |
| 14 | Importantly for the point I am making about the study of television genre , Todorov closes his summary of propositions thus : |
| 15 | The point I am making , here , is tentative and preliminary : it is simply that , unlike cinema which is still a ‘ specialized activity ’ , television 's relation to the everyday seems more determining than its relation to fantasy . |
| 16 | The point I am making now is that , even if we look on the dark side and assume that individual man is fundamentally selfish , our conscious foresight — our capacity to simulate the future in imagination — could save us from the worst selfish excesses of the blind replicators . |
| 17 | Eschewing the considerable underlying complexities in the points that I am making , I would argue that there is a fundamental difference between ‘ understanding information ’ and ‘ understanding the full potential value of information ’ : . |
| 18 | The point I am making here is that when you tackle a big job you need the necessary resources to complete it . |
| 19 | She said : ‘ I think I am making a mistake about Liz Taylor ’ ( her name for you , not mine ) . |
| 20 | ‘ Do you think I am making a mistake ? ’ |
| 21 | The point I am making is that pedagogic research calls for the independent appraisal of ideas as a precondition to their application . |
| 22 | I am making the assumption that Kirov will be able to fill in some of the blanks once we come up with a workable number … probably no more than three . |
| 23 | I am making a very simple point : that the material conditions of our lives and of our characters ' lives shape , to a large extent , the way those lives progress . |
| 24 | I am making some , I 'm happy to report . |
| 25 | ‘ I will bring the shoes I am making for you now , the ones with the amethysts as decoration and I will expect payment for the work I 've done , mind . |
| 26 | ‘ It might just be , ’ Hari said sharply , ‘ that I am making something a little bit different , giving personal attention to what the ladies require in a way that a big factory could not do . ’ |
| 27 | The point I am making here is based on an observation by Stanley Cavell ( 1979 , p. 460 ) and repeated by him in many contexts : ‘ a human being could not fail to know , confronting me , that I am a human being ’ . |
| 28 | I 'm not keeping him on the hop , but I am making a joke of things . |
| 29 | I do n't suppose she will understand this , or the connection I am making , tentatively , with Claudia 's fate . |
| 30 | A common response to the claim that I am making about observation , supported by the kinds of examples I have utilized , is that observers viewing the same scene from the same place see the same thing but interpret what they see differently . |