Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [v-ing] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's estimated that one in seven of the part-time workforce has some kind of caring responsibilities , and many of them are attempting to maintain a full-time or at least a part-time job , while carrying those responsibilities . |
| 2 | My girlfriend and I are trying to compile a new guidebook for the Clwyd area and would appreciate details of any new route information your readers might have . |
| 3 | Clarissa and I are going to have a tiny foot-up till he arrives . ’ |
| 4 | I am hoping to compile a short book of poems on dogs — I was wondering if any readers might like to send me any ? |
| 5 | I am hoping to buy a 4–5 year old Ninety diesel . |
| 6 | With limited resources I am striving to build a ruthless goal-scoring machine . |
| 7 | ‘ Now I am trying to buy a flat for Katya there . |
| 8 | I am intending to build a third pond , with dimensions 20′ × 6′ × 2′6″ . |
| 9 | Although it probably sounds odd that I am suggesting negotiating a written agreement with your teenager , psychologists have been using business-style contracts to resolve family conflicts for some years now . |
| 10 | Although I 've trained and worked in this area since 1982 I am having to learn a whole new dimension that is multi-cultural . |
| 11 | Now I am studying to get a British qualification to continue the work I did at home . |
| 12 | In what follows I am going to use a general procedure for reading texts to examine specific features of racist discourse to be found in ‘ Fighting talk ’ and ‘ The last laugh ’ and to suggest a series of questions which they raise as an agenda for further research and debate . |
| 13 | I think I am going to have a pleasant walk , all the rain of yesterday evening has gone and a very fresh smell hangs in the air . |
| 14 | I feel as though I am starting to write a new story in the book of Giorgio Armani . ’ |
| 15 | I 'll make sure May and June top up , because I 'm expecting to have a bad month in July , but because I 'm expecting to have a good month , I might as well go on holiday myself . |
| 16 | I 'll make sure May and June top up , because I 'm expecting to have a bad month in July , but because I 'm expecting to have a good month , I might as well go on holiday myself . |
| 17 | East Londoner Williams is certainly not ruing his decision to move back to Selhurst Park , saying : ‘ It 's familiar territory as far as I 'm concerned , I had two good years here with Charlton and I 'm hoping to spend a good few more here with Palace . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm trying to control a wild urge to pick you up and carry you to my bedroom . ’ |
| 19 | I 'm trying to make a gradual move from being Charlene from next door to being Kylie . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm trying to get a little privacy , ’ she murmured , going over to the far side of the boat where she would be hidden from view . |
| 21 | I 'm looking to develop a National Series for Trail Quest competitions by 1993 . |
| 22 | And I 'm beginning to get a wee bit worried about it , you know ? |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm beginning to find a few clues . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Bernard gave me four new tyres for my own car as payment but kept saying , ‘ I 'm going to open a big factory one day and have you as works ' manager ’ . ’ |
| 25 | Let's take this example here I 've got a carbon chain there and I 'm going to put a methile group there and I 'm going to put a methile group there two , three that . |
| 26 | Let's take this example here I 've got a carbon chain there and I 'm going to put a methile group there and I 'm going to put a methile group there two , three that . |
| 27 | I 'm going to see a wee lassie tonight ; maybe she 's not as pretty as Helen , but after I have a word with her , then maybe , just maybe , she 'll let you put that cock of yours into action . |
| 28 | ‘ You know , Frank , ’ she said , ‘ I 'm going to take a great delight in telling her , much more so than facing up to the big boy himself , because she it is who has paved the way for all this . ’ |
| 29 | I 'm going to take a deep breath everytime I see something and just hope you can make things work properly . |
| 30 | I 'm going to do a wee demonstration on how to do it now . |