Example sentences of "i am [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the novels I am thinking of he attributes certain ideas to certain characters and utters them in the prevailing manner of the novel , while also submitting them to question within it . |
| 2 | I am thinking of the death of Primo Levi , an autobiographer , and by certain standards an amateur ; of the threatened death of the novelist Salman Rushdie ; and of the discovery of the fascist sympathies formerly exhibited by the literary theorist Paul de Man . |
| 3 | ‘ Yes , ’ Sven Hjerson went on , ‘ it is in fact , I am thinking , that all those people who might have given that not very well balanced car the one push needed have also possible reasons for wishing the death of Lord Woodleigh . |
| 4 | ‘ I am thinking , ’ Sven Hjerson said , ‘ that Lady Woodleigh the new , is meaning someone else , not you , Miss Buckley . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I am thinking , Miss Abernethie , she is perhaps wondering , Like myself , why you were sent for to Naples in the middle of the new-engaged couple 's holiday . |
| 6 | It was this , I am thinking , that made Miss Jonathan realize that if the marriage she was about to enter into with a man much different from herself , and older also , would not go well , she would never from a Catholic be obtaining a divorce . |
| 7 | ‘ I am thinking of doing a little more writing now , but talk of retirement is nonsense . ’ |
| 8 | I am thinking about my spectacles lying on the desk before me as I write . |
| 9 | If we also consider thoughts about them qua spectacles , then we would say that I have not succeeded in thinking about them unless I am thinking about artefacts , thinking about items that can be worn on the nose , that aid vision , that are more-or-less breakable , that did not exist a thousand years ago , that this pair existed yesterday but did not exist in 1983 , and so on . |
| 10 | I am thinking of unfortunate scholars in foreign universities who can not ‘ hold down their jobs ’ unless they repeatedly publish articles each of which must say , or seem to say , something new about some literary work … |
| 11 | ‘ I am thinking of someone else . |
| 12 | ‘ I am thinking of making a change up front . |
| 13 | I am thinking of Masaryk and , obviously , Havel ? |
| 14 | I am thinking of prostitution , pornography , the commercialisation of cultural values . |
| 15 | Yet , at best , this is unreliable , as when I am thinking of your beautiful wife while discussing with you the state of the nation . |
| 16 | However , fuel economy is poor and as I am planning to drive to Morocco next year I am thinking of fitting a Ford V6 3.0 litre or 2.8 litre engine . |
| 17 | I am thinking of things like transfer ratios or perhaps 900 x 16 tyres will fit 7.50 x 16 wheel rims . |
| 18 | I am thinking of swapping the 2.6 litre petrol engine in my 1969 IIa LWB Safari for a Perkins 4203 diesel . |
| 19 | I am thinking of buying a SWB Land Rover but am unsure which engine to have fitted for both performance and economy . |
| 20 | This is now starting to burn oil and I am thinking of changing the engine to a diesel , The reasons for a diesel engine would be greater fuel economy and cheaper fuel as well as greater torque . |
| 21 | I am thinking of fitting a York six cylinder diesel with Bosch injection equipment and multiheater head to my 1986 110 , non-turbo 2.5 diesel . |
| 22 | I am thinking of purchasing a new Ninety Diesel Turbo hard top , is it possible to have it converted to take a full canvas tilt and who would undertake such a conversion ? |
| 23 | Whilst there are , perhaps , many things to be celebrated about the 1960s there are also many to be deplored : I am thinking , in particular , of the racist excesses of the mid to late sixties and beyond , which ran concurrently with eulogies of love and peace . |
| 24 | ‘ I am thinking that if all the Jews in the world come to the island it would into the water sink , ja ? ’ |
| 25 | I am thinking of all that walking again . |
| 26 | I am thinking of our annual Parish Picnic , when everybody comes — babies in prams , children , young couples , older folk of all ages . |
| 27 | I am thinking particularly of one of the Bushmen you knew who was so good at imitating a professor . |
| 28 | I am thinking of reverse-flow undergravel filtration using a Fluval 303 or 403 , filled with ceramic prefilter , carbon , and foam block or filter wool . |
| 29 | Conversely , national issues which were serious or even explosive before 1914 have receded : I am thinking of the famous ‘ Macedonian Question ’ , the Ukraine , or even the demand for the restoration of historic Poland . |
| 30 | This is the case of the Scandinavian countries — I am thinking of Finland and Iceland in particular — though the prevailing liberal ideology in those parts makes it embarrassing to admit to this form of intolerance . |