Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [v-ing] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Screen clinches : people assume that Craig and I are having an affair . |
| 2 | My wife and I are planning an extended trip to North Africa in our 1986 Range Rover Turbo D which has 50,000 miles on the clock . |
| 3 | ‘ I am transmitting an instruction subset to the computer on the communications satellite , ’ said the Thing . |
| 4 | I know that I am providing an unusual excuse for those dastards interested in luring some member of the opposite sex into a dark and confined space , but I would be glad to hear about experimental results . |
| 5 | ‘ I am bringing an action for $1,000,000 against a health spa , ’ she told the court . |
| 6 | I am re-opening an old fireplace and need to install a fireback . |
| 7 | In so far as I am using an expression , as distinct from attending to it , I am at home in it . |
| 8 | I am reading an extraordinary book about a man who was ‘ given away ’ by his mother at 2 weeks old , and managed to find her again in his thirties . |
| 9 | As I can not afford a new diesel engine I am considering an old slogger Perkins 4,236 . |
| 10 | I am issuing an order . |
| 11 | I am conducting an investigation ! ’ 'That 's as may be , but a man 's harem is his own affair . ’ |
| 12 | I am suggesting an arrangement which I believe might bring both of us a great deal of pleasure . |
| 13 | I am addressing an all-party committee , ’ Mark replied , feeling rather important as he uttered the words . |
| 14 | ‘ I do n't feel I am doing an Englishman out of a place in front of 54,000 in one of the great matches of the rugby calendar . |
| 15 | If I am a social worker , I am doing an injustice to my profession . |
| 16 | I am doing an art course , but I never go . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm off to the US next week and then I am doing an extended tour of the US and Canada . |
| 18 | ‘ This is an eggciting party ’ , ‘ I am feeling eggstatic ’ , ‘ I am having an eggcilerating time ’ , ‘ Do not eggagerate ’ . |
| 19 | I really do n't care if people think I am having an affair with her . |
| 20 | ‘ I really do n't care if people think I am having an affair with her . |
| 21 | I am making an eyeshade out of my hand . |
| 22 | NORMALLY I insist on using the names of people who contact me for help , but in this case I am making an exception . |
| 23 | This is particularly unfortunate because in deciding to set aside the demand the judge exercised a discretion , and on this appeal I am discharging an appellate jurisdiction and not hearing the matter afresh and exercising my own discretion : see In re Gilmartin ( A Bankrupt ) [ 1989 ] 1 W.L.R. 513 . |
| 24 | The audit , er , the the accounts your your offices will be assigned er , as of the twenty-third of December , of ninety-three , and , but we 're not able yet to conclude the audit as I 'm considering an objection which has been received from a member , on the matter of publicity . |
| 25 | And I 'll obviously be corrected on that if I 'm er I 'm getting an an affirmative nod from Mr Potter . |
| 26 | I 'm getting an automatic next time I go in there . |
| 27 | And let me tell you this : should you in any way try to get in touch with me , even go to the partners and ask for my whereabouts , I swear before God — ‘ He now raised his hand in a dramatic fashion and paused before he added , ‘ See , I 'm taking an oath . |
| 28 | You leave me just because I 'm eating an egg sandwich ! |
| 29 | Do n't think that because I 'm learning an absorbing and rather difficult trade I have no thoughts to spare for you . |
| 30 | It 's only when I 'm writing an article that I give it its proper name ! |