Example sentences of "i [be] write [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I AM writing this foreword to the 1993 Year Book on my very first evening in the diocese after the announcement of my appointment yesterday .
2 I am writing this PC in the sizzling heat on the verandah of our thatched hut .
3 If Hyde returns while I am writing this confession , he will tear it to pieces to annoy me .
4 Although it is unlikely that Members will be asked to vote on conversion until some time in 1989 I am writing this letter to give an early indication of the main reasons for the recommendation .
5 Dear Guitarist I am writing this letter in the hope that I may save a lot of Gibson-lovers grief with their pickups .
6 I am writing this letter while being kept in after school .
7 I am writing this letter in a personal capacity , but as Chairman of the Education Committee and a member of the Membership & Recruitment Committee , perhaps I am well placed to comment on the debate on entry requirements .
8 It 's 8:15 on Friday morning , and I am writing this letter in Chambers ' car park .
9 I am writing this evening , I am just going to church .
10 This is one very powerful reason why I am writing this chapter .
11 I am writing these lines on the last day of 1986 , the deadline I set myself for reaching the Great Glen with my pen .
12 As I am writing these words , I have a persistent , low-pitched hum in my left ear .
13 I am writing these words on Wednesday 16 September 1992 .
14 I 'm writing this while memory is clear .
15 Look , Quite frankly , I mean I just do n't know why I 'm writing this column , OK ?
16 Because I 'm writing this column on my Texas TravelMate notebook computer .
17 I 'm writing this prose now in a domestic quiet broken only by a blackbird outside my window , and a car starting up and revving .
18 He says I 'm writing these things to you about those who are trying to lead you astray .
19 I find myself here and now — at my hotel window , the road below crowded with traffic , the fish market gone until tomorrow , the winter sun lighting the exercise book in which I 'm writing these events of nearly three years past — wanting to put down my pen , lean back and wonder at my arrogance , such stubborn obtuseness .
20 I was writing that sentence .
21 Bodo and I had been watching a bodysurfing video starring Mark Cunningham , but when Ace found out I was writing some articles about the North Shore he insisted on an immediate full-scale press conference .
22 At the same time as I was writing some correspondence ( including the note to you ) , I was attempting to organise the hand-over of certain severely disturbed patients to various colleagues who were to assume responsibility for them during the long vacation .
23 Out drinking with a couple of female journalists ( in what was supposedly Hemingway 's favourite bar in Havana , if you must know ) , I mentioned I was writing this article and we all launched into our favourite New Age stories , like the one about the Immortalists , a group who take to its logical end the New Age philosophy of positive thinking and creating your own reality , and have decided they are going to live forever .
24 Four years later , in 1962 , Brian Jackson ( who died while I was writing this book ) and Dennis Marsden added their persuasive voices to the growing chorus of those who were aware of the weaknesses rather than the strengths of the grammar school .
25 The ultimate warning over ouija comes from a high-ranking chaos magician who knew I was writing this book .
26 Just as I was writing this book I received a beautiful card from Sue Fuller whom I had met at the Town and Country Festival last year .
27 I would like to thank the following women for their support and encouragement as I was writing this piece : Anne Collins , Linda Stepulvage , Tricia Darragh and Lisa Hunt .
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