Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [v-ing] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am fondling her like a memory , in the way you stroke a cat : knowing it 's there , glad it 's purring , but letting thoughts wander like your fingers tickling the fur . |
| 2 | Back in Fr Butler 's home parish of St Lachtain in Freshford , Kilkenny , Fr Seamus Henry said : ‘ I have n't been in touch with John for some months but I am supporting him in a pastoral way . |
| 3 | No problem Mr Prospect , I 'm glad you feel that way however I am seeing you in a fortnight 's time , have a chat with him between then and now and when I see you next week I 'll ta or whenever the time 'll be , I 'll take his telephone number from you then . |
| 4 | I am taking you to the house of Robert Asshe , in Holborn . |
| 5 | ‘ I am taking you to the dressing-room where the ladies are gathered , they would be your best customers , I do n't doubt . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Joseph Shill , I am arresting you for the murder of your wife , Maria Shill , at Windsor , on 19th December . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Miles Engado , I am arresting you for the — ’ |
| 8 | However , at this moment I am addressing myself to the question of motive . |
| 9 | I am opening myself as a channel to the Light . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I am doing nothing of the sort . |
| 11 | I am doing them in a minute . |
| 12 | ‘ They pay me , ’ he says , before qualifying his statement : ‘ I am doing it for the love of my art . |
| 13 | I am trailing them along the line of their tea-breaks and their modest working lunches of packet soup followed by something you eat with mustard . |
| 14 | I am leading you along the path I had to tread to find the most suitable disease , for only in this way can I be sure that the reader understands the nature of the ultimate decision and the ludicrousness of any attempt to confuse it with my own stick and gloves or any prior misinformation regarding the state of my own health . |
| 15 | He thinks that I am selling her for the night . |
| 16 | Meantime I am treating it as a double murder . ’ |
| 17 | Should n't I be compensating someone for the loss of the Seren ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm expecting something from an old friend and I just remembered he only has this address for me . ’ |
| 19 | I 'm thinking we at the latest we can |
| 20 | It would be nice to imagine the reader , having ingested the reader , having ingested the above , musing , ‘ Oh , I never thought of that ’ — which is , after all , the response elicited by all cultural commentators — but I have no illusions that I 'm teaching anything to the individual or individuals responsible for the original design . |
| 21 | ‘ Tommy Cook , I 'm arresting you for the murder of Christopher Jabelman … ‘ |
| 22 | ‘ Iain MacPherson , I 'm arresting you for the … ‘ |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm ordering you off the Mills case with immediate effect . ’ |
| 24 | and it keeps on cutting out , that 's why I 'm stopping it by the way . |
| 25 | Bearing in mind that I 'm taking one in a fortnight 's time . |
| 26 | ‘ No , I 'm taking her to the doctor 's . ’ |
| 27 | So today I 'm taking them to a matinée . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Do n't forget , I 'm taking you to the Stadt Berlin . |
| 29 | I 'm taking you to the bank , ’ he muttered in her ear , his voice reverberating through her body . |
| 30 | I 'm taking you to the Jolly Farmers . |