Example sentences of "i [be] [v-ing] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My wife and I are staying at the Danieli , but she 's not been feeling well and urged me to take up the offer of an observer 's seat here . ’ |
| 2 | And now , on a clear morning , Graham Little and I are sitting at the bottom of the wall , fit and ready to go , and the wall is plastered with verglas . |
| 3 | Fairfax and I are sitting on the verandah at Folly Farm . |
| 4 | Mary saw the scribbled-over envelope , smiled and said , " Reggie and I are going to the Greenpeace demo tomorrow afternoon . " |
| 5 | I am thinking about the table that is |
| 6 | I am thinking of the child becoming part of a new family so that the new parents become the ‘ psychological parents ’ , and thus offer a sense of security , a sense of belonging , of being loved , until the child reaches adulthood and beyond . |
| 7 | Here I am thinking of the definition of race exclusively in terms of culture and identity which ties certain strands in antiracism to the position of some of the new right ideologues . |
| 8 | ‘ I am thinking of the children of Sarajevo , of Banja Luka , of the peoples of Bosnia , ’ he said . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | A colossal number of Housing Executive dwellings in my constituency are in urgent need of renovation — I am thinking of the housing estates at Tullycarnet , Ballybeen , Groomsport , Bangor and Holyrood . |
| 11 | I am proceeding in the belief that there is a unity in developmental mechanisms , and whilst the sea-urchin provided an excellent model , there are other examples to be considered . |
| 12 | I am resigning from the strike committee . |
| 13 | I am resigning from the Cabinet . |
| 14 | An alkali will obviously have to be introduced to neutralise the acid and I am toying with the idea of lime in one form or another . |
| 15 | I am puzzling over the dot matrix display board that 's trying to tell me what trains are coming my way . |
| 16 | I am copulating with the blacksmith . ’ ’ |
| 17 | I find I am competing with the Ann Summers ones now . ’ |
| 18 | Q When I am looking at the ingredients in a hair product what should I be looking for to identify it as a quality product ? |
| 19 | What a queasy period those inter-war years now seem ( I am looking at the chicken curry ) , the old hatreds and prejudices simmering and bubbling nicely with all the dark , irrational fears surfacing in a way that rational people like Cohn-Casson believed had long ago been rendered obsolete by the evolutionary nature of society . |
| 20 | " I am looking for the Reed Girl . " |
| 21 | Even now I am looking through the chapter on the ‘ law ’ again : the question of colonial robbery ( p. 62 ) , ‘ the alienation … of the surplus product from all pre-socialist forms ’ ( p. 62 ) , ‘ the taxation of private capitalist profit ’ ( p. 64 ) , the question of state loans ( pp. 64–65 ) , currency emission ( p. 65 ) , railway tariffs ( p. 70 ) , the monopoly of the banking system and the credit policy ( pp. 70–73 ) , home and foreign trade ( pp. 73–84 ) , the ‘ prices policy ’ ( sic pp. 84–89 ) , and so on and so forth , with further argument on the theme that socialism is fighting against capitalism and in order to win it must accumulate at the expense of the private economy — and the more the better — this is the entire content of the work . |
| 22 | With some 22,000 students moving around within our city , even if one felt that a nominal sum should be paid — here I am looking after the interests of the hon. Member for City of Durham ( Mr. Steinberg ) whose lovely daughter is now a constituent of mine ; I trust that she will be sensible and know where to put her cross — it is clearly administratively impossible to handle and , given the changes in student support , that small relief will be welcome . |
| 23 | I am prowling around the room flexing my fingers , while the hard men fade away with Rover . |
| 24 | I am ordering for the week . ’ |
| 25 | Hi , this is the first time I am posting to the list . |
| 26 | Josnau a di chop — I am eating at the moment |
| 27 | ‘ I am staying at the Queen 's Head , ’ he managed to say . |
| 28 | And now here I am getting off the train at Greenwich , as Summerchild did , instead of the next station down the line , as Jessel does . |
| 29 | I am referring to the machine tool industry , which is a key industry now suffering and struggling to keep seventh place in the world . |
| 30 | I am referring to the work of the Council of Europe ( see Trim et al . |