Example sentences of "i [be] writing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Understandable had I been writing this in August , but as it is still March it looks as if we are in for another drought this summer . |
| 2 | I am writing to you about the case of Im Su-Kyong , who was arrested for ten years for attending a peace march from North Korea to South Korea . |
| 3 | I am writing as I 'm puzzled as to why you have released Kim Hyun-hui who planted a bomb on a plane and killed 115 people but have imprisoned a girl for taking part in a peace march . |
| 4 | I am writing in reply to all the letters you have printed over the past few months about Steffi Graf . |
| 5 | I am writing to express my views about the Graf/Seles situation . |
| 6 | I am writing to you to ask if it is possible to obtain drawings , designs and or working instructions for making what is known as a Steamer Chair . |
| 7 | I am writing to warn other dog owners of the potential hazard of the rape plant ( you 'll have noticed the bright yellow flowers now covering so many fields ) . |
| 8 | Kermode sees this change — which is at the heart of what I am writing about — as having radical implications for letters , comparable to such things as the advent , first of printing and then of cheap paper ; the bourgeoisie 's greater leisure for private reading ; and the abandonment by circulating libraries of the three-volume novel , which had been the favoured vehicle for fiction during much of the nineteenth century : Kermode exaggerates a little , I think ; nothing in the establishment of university English is as important as the innovations in culture and technology which established the book in its modern form . |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't want it known here [ i.e. at Magdalen ] that I am writing ‘ pomes ’ [ sic ] . ’ |
| 10 | That 's why I am writing to ask you to take part in a great campaign : for universal child immunisation . |
| 11 | That is why I am writing to ask for your support . |
| 12 | It is for refugees in Britain that I am writing to ask for your help . |
| 13 | I am writing to tell you what those few minutes of destruction will now mean and to ask for your urgent help to stop this needless forest massacre before it is too late . |
| 14 | But if you have the gift of sight , please close your eyes … and I feel confident you will extend a helping hand to those on whose behalf I am writing to you . |
| 15 | I AM writing this some six months later . |
| 16 | My mother I can hardly see save as she is now while I am writing . |
| 17 | I am writing with open eyes |
| 18 | I remember he rang me once — he could be very amusing — and said , ‘ I am writing a Theme and Variations . |
| 19 | Another is why I am writing in this composition book . |
| 20 | I am writing this partly to get it clear in my head and to help me make up my mind . |
| 21 | I am writing in response to your recent article The profession of chemistry by W. Fritsche ( Chem . |
| 22 | I am writing to you about your father . |
| 23 | The reason I am writing to Mamma is to show her that I know my duty and that I am with the deepest respect her devoted son . ’ |
| 24 | I am writing to confirm that we would like to film a short sequence for our Project Video English Language teaching video programme in your restaurant on Tuesday 13 June . |
| 25 | I am writing to confirm that we would like to film a short sequence for our Project Video English language teaching video programme in your shop on Tuesday 13 June . |
| 26 | I am writing to confirm that we are engaging you as Production Assistant on our Project Video English language teaching video production . |
| 27 | I am writing to confirm the arrangements for filming inside the Big Ben Clock Tower next Wednesday , June 7th . |
| 28 | I am writing to confirm our booking for filming at the Old Royal Observatory on Wednesday 7 June from 9.00 to 11.00 am . |
| 29 | I am writing to ask if it might be possible for Oxford University Press to make use of the following tracks in a non-broadcast educational video . |
| 30 | I am writing to ask if it might be possible for Oxford University Press to make use of the following tracks in a non-broadcast educational video . |