Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In today 's Washington , where ideology is a murmur of distant guns but technocrats have not quite recovered their old authority , the think-tanks seem at a loss ; many of them are cutting the size of their staffs . |
| 2 | So those who try to dismiss Jesus as being a good teacher , a religious leader , a prophet and no more — all of them are missing the truth . |
| 3 | These questions are being asked now not just by political theorists , although some of them are giving the most considered answers . |
| 4 | Which of them are offering the best value ? |
| 5 | Even more revealing , had I been asking the questions now ( the year of the miners ' strike ) , would have been the reaction to this one , suggested by Griffiths and Howson . |
| 6 | Time , right , I am moving the amendment the reference back and I 'm handing those papers to the Chief Executive and I 'm gon na ask the Chief Executive to get someone independent to do this because you ca n't get away from the numbers that the numbers I 've get someone independent I 'll ask for that . |
| 7 | Personally , I am hoping the trip will also provide me with an insight into relief and development work as I pray about my future . |
| 8 | I am hoping the atmosphere will lift tired legs . ’ |
| 9 | And if you will be good enough to let me go on , you will see how I am monitoring the environment of the infant in order to see precisely what effect it has . |
| 10 | ‘ I am enumerating the items that could stand against you should the will be contested , ’ said Mr Aycliffe patiently . |
| 11 | I am creating the perfect relationship inspired by the statement ‘ feel the fear and do it anyway . ’ |
| 12 | I am borrowing the conclusions and applying them to beavers , because beavers are more interesting and congenial to many people than worms . |
| 13 | Even as I am recounting the edited version , it occurs to me that Fairfax has probably been doing the same thing . |
| 14 | Peter Cole , chairman of Bramshill Parish Council , in whose bailiwick the town would have fallen , said : ‘ I might have an extra beer today , but I am saving the champagne for another 21 days . |
| 15 | I am emphasising the existential quality of dramatic playing here because it is in direct contrast to the expectations of acting behaviour to be found in some educational institutions . |
| 16 | I have written elsewhere ( Bolton , 1982 ) that the basic skill of acting is : ‘ an ability to engage with something outside oneself using an ‘ as if ’ mental set to activate , sustain or intensify that engagement' and I go on to say , ‘ I am using the word ‘ engagement ’ as a central feature because it implies a relationship at an affective level between a person and the world outside him' ( p. 135 ) . |
| 17 | In the remainder of the discussion in this paper I am using the term ‘ psychic ’ in these senses , although it may seem , at times , in the descriptions of psychic phenomena that these processes are static and fixed . |
| 18 | But pragmatism , as I am using the term here , is a function of pedagogic mediation whereby the relationship between theory and practice , ideas and their actualization , can only be realized within the domain of application , that is , through the immediate activity of teaching . |
| 19 | The piece starts quite confidently as a " narrative with an elaborated setting " ( I am using the terminology of Labov and Waletsky , 1967 ) . |
| 20 | The crucial difference between economic growth and development , as I am using the term here , is that development may include everything that is already included in economic growth plus criteria of distribution of the social product and democratic politics . |
| 21 | When finally a small boy was sent to ask him what he was up to , he replied : ‘ Here I am building the biggest , the best kiln Hua Xian has ever seen ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ I am assuming the responsibility for all of my co-workers , both for those things I was aware of and for those things that I discovered in the last few days since the name of Olivetti began circulating . |
| 23 | I am assuming the £6M will be raised if we carry on in 1988 as we did in 1987 , improving distribution of course and encouraging people but doing nothing to undermine what individuals , churches and committees do already . |
| 24 | Instead we are now saying , ‘ I know this diet and exercise plan is working for me ’ , ‘ this time I am going to reach my weight and inch goal ’ , ‘ because I never feel hungry and I am eating the foods I enjoy , I do n't even feel as though I 'm dieting ’ . |
| 25 | ‘ While I am pursuing the offender I do not want blood on the streets . ’ |
| 26 | However , I am getting the business matters straightened out and I hope it wo n't be too long before I shall have more time to spend with you . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I am getting the strength in depth that I need , ’ added Perkins . |
| 28 | And I 'm I 'm when I wrote to Marion I said , er I 'm ge I am getting the most terrible withdrawal symptoms ! |
| 29 | I am telling the police , of course , but nothing happen , they do n't arrest nobody . |
| 30 | I am telling the truth . |