Example sentences of "am [v-ing] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or if someone says What are you doing ? we can just answer Eating a mango instead of I am eating a mango because we know that I am is understood and does not have to be said . |
| 2 | I am using a range of paints produced in Australia by Art Spectrum which includes colours with names like Tasman blue , Flinders blue violet , Australian leaf green and Pilbora red , designed for use in the southern hemisphere . |
| 3 | You see , I am using a quote here , they are so openly aggressive and surly … |
| 4 | I am using a pitching wedge in these photos and I suggest you do , too . |
| 5 | Now I am not , of course , challenging the excellence that God requires from us all but I am challenging a tendency to overthrow the radical message of incarnation . |
| 6 | This excited Boy ; he thought , I am acquiring a library . |
| 7 | She thought , I am becoming a recluse . |
| 8 | In my dream , I am slicing a cake with Mary Wollstonecraft . |
| 9 | I have a problem , I am dressing a doll for a ‘ Name the Doll ’ competition for our local committee of Cancer Relief and Cancer Research . |
| 10 | In case you think that I am advocating a policy of lunatic aggression , no , I am not . |
| 11 | ‘ It may interest you to know that I , too , am developing a theory , Doctor . |
| 12 | I am chairing a meeting of the duchy council on 29 January and I plan to visit the county palatine on 7 March . |
| 13 | As a complete an utter novice I am seeking a publication that will explain to me in more or less layman 's terms how my computer works and what I should/could be doing with it ! |
| 14 | He has never seen 4-month-old daughter Jennifer but has written : ‘ I am seeking a reconciliation for all our sakes . ’ |
| 15 | I find that I am writing a kind of completely sterile account of their life . |
| 16 | ‘ I am writing a treatise , have been for years , on the maintenance of the king 's peace in London . |
| 17 | I am writing a textbook for mixed ability classes in comprehensive schools based on this model . |
| 18 | I contacted him because he had been a friend of the novelist and playwright , Patrick Hamilton , about whom I am writing a book . |
| 19 | I AM writing a book on the history of the famous cricket team , The Invalids , founded by Sir John Squire after the First World War , which provided the original of the team of literary gents in A.G. Macdonell 's novel England , Their England . |
| 20 | I too am writing a book about this period … it will be more accurate than this one , I assure you . ’ |
| 21 | I am writing a book on the subject . ’ |
| 22 | I am writing a lot in my diary in mid and late May , but nowhere do I make any direct mention of the 13th . |
| 23 | I remember he rang me once — he could be very amusing — and said , ‘ I am writing a Theme and Variations . |
| 24 | ‘ All they 'll know is that I am escorting a companion who is totally irresistible , and they 'll fall for you as I have . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ So I am imagining a bone ? ’ |
| 26 | However , she continued to write and then Meehan himself sent the first of many letters , beginning , ‘ Dear Mr Kennedy , I am serving a Life imprisonment for a horrible murder in which I was never involved . ’ |
| 27 | HAVING recently seen cricket being played by disabled persons in New Zealand , I am establishing a cricket association for the disabled in Somerset . |
| 28 | I am enclosing a copy of the script for the section on Health . |
| 29 | I am enclosing a copy of the final version of the script for Project Video . |
| 30 | I am enclosing a copy of the script for the Animals section of our Project Video English language teaching video programme . |