Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [v-ing] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My wife and I are leaving Venice next week . |
| 2 | I am understudying George Birkitt , who , when I last saw him , was looking as fit as a flea . ’ |
| 3 | How do I best practise it and know that I am loving God ? " |
| 4 | I would like to say how very much I am enjoying Mary Thomson 's new series . |
| 5 | By the way , I am chasing Mike Gash about the meeting we were hoping to hold to discuss our proposed coastal study . |
| 6 | ‘ I swim , ride and I am learning Braille . |
| 7 | Fortunately , your software will remind you of this — when I am using DesignaKnit , it always reminds me if I need to save data . |
| 8 | My two and a quarter petrol 1981 SWB would have needed an expensive conversion to run on unleaded petrol so I am using Carbonflo instead . |
| 9 | Some people say I am using Heidi , but this is her battle too . |
| 10 | I am assuming Hydro Aluminium Metals , with its strong commitment to the environment , will want to be associated with an informative document promoting sustainable development . |
| 11 | ‘ Here I am facing Liverpool in my first game as a fully-fledged Coventry player , so if I can put one over them , it will be the end of a perfect week . ’ |
| 12 | I am reading Michael Tippett 's autobiography ( which he calls ‘ Twentieth Century Blues ’ ) . |
| 13 | I am reading Freud . |
| 14 | Yes I am seeing Jessie tonight Ollie yo , I do n't know why you want to know that . |
| 15 | LADY DAVERS : I am taking Pamela . |
| 16 | ‘ And now ’ , she went on , ‘ I am hearing Norman again . |
| 17 | I am expecting Crilly and he is late . |
| 18 | I am meeting Enya and the Ryans somewhere near her carefully guarded Killiney residence on a silvery wet and foggy autumn day . |
| 19 | BECAUSE I AM INTERVIEWING DUDLEY MOORE to talk about his piano playing and his tour of the country with the BBC Concert Orchestra and his jazz trio , I ask him a question about his piano playing . |
| 20 | I am giving Gittel-plus-nine much too easy a time . |
| 21 | Although in November 1926 he could still refer quite positively to " this freemasonary of humanists , this international body of people who can exchange passwords such as Latin verses and the sentences of Plato " , his underlying assessment of Europe , particularly European culture , was becoming decidedly more critical : " I am judging Europe ; it is my sole preoccupation . |
| 22 | I am saying Mr Major , as Prime Minister , if someone in my position is saying I believe , I believe , there is the best opportunity here for lasting peace , by which I mean a total cessation of violence , the least I expect is that you should listen to what I have to say . |
| 23 | ‘ I am not representing CND , I am not representing the Vatican , I am representing Tottenham and I think many other people as well . ’ |
| 24 | Among the new English writers , I am backing Aldous Huxley and she 's backing Evelyn Waugh . |
| 25 | First , I am directing Leicestershire county council to establish a statutory and legally chaired inquiry whose terms of reference will be to inquire into management responses to complaints or other prima facie evidence of abuse , malpractice or other related matters in Leicestershire children 's homes between 1973 and 1986 ; and any other relevant management and personnel management matters during that period or subsequently . |
| 26 | That 's where I 'm meeting Sabrina . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm meeting Daphne for lunch in D. H. Evans . ’ |
| 28 | Er and then I 'm meeting Diane at your mum 's . |
| 29 | I 'm meeting Pete . ’ |
| 30 | I 'm meeting Lucy off the train later on anyway , and if you want to know the truth ’ — he looked about him with rolling eyes — ‘ I 'm completely pissed off with the whole of this bloody set-up . |