Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [verb] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ I am enumerating the items that could stand against you should the will be contested , ’ said Mr Aycliffe patiently . |
| 3 | I am borrowing the conclusions and applying them to beavers , because beavers are more interesting and congenial to many people than worms . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | I am telling the police , of course , but nothing happen , they do n't arrest nobody . |
| 6 | Rain pours down the window panes of my London flat and I am reading the letters of black political prisoners in the country I was born in . |
| 7 | I am considering the police authority 's application for an additional 24 police posts for 1992-93 . |
| 8 | I am retracing the footsteps of the lost expedition , tracking them through their abandoned log from one wrong compass bearing to the next . |
| 9 | I am hearing the echoes again , thought Grainne , staring about her , her eyes huge and dilated . |
| 10 | I am meeting the manufacturers again early in March . |
| 11 | I am meeting the manufacturers again this Wednesday , and I shall ask what progress they have made . |
| 12 | Meanwhile I am exploring the edges of a continent where most of its people are clustered and , except in city and suburb , well scattered where settlement is at the mercy of geography , as indeed is the peroipatetic topographer , constantly on the lookout for some assembly of landscape elements that can be turned into pictures and — because of indoctrination by a European culture — pictures of a particular sort . |
| 13 | I am insuring the contents of my/our main home |
| 14 | ‘ I think what I 'm asking for a pair of shoes is fair enough though I am keeping the prices low as an incentive for my customers to come back for more . ’ |
| 15 | As Jenny Randles says in Abduction ( according to Mr Marr , the only really reliable guide to the spacenapping phenomenon ) , ‘ Of course I am making no assumptions about what it means to have been abducted [ by aliens ] , but if some researchers are correct many of you reading this book might have undergone an abduction experience without consciously realizing it . ’ |
| 16 | Q I am planning a 48″ x 15″ x 12″ marine tank and wish to use undergravel filtration . |
| 17 | I am giving no figures … |
| 18 | In answering this question , I am following the ideas of David Marr . |
| 19 | I am drafting the minutes he never drafted . |
| 20 | And I am disturbing the veils , she thought . |
| 21 | They 'll say I 'm harassing the travellers . ’ |
| 22 | I 'm expecting the boys for dinner tomorrow and looking forward to it . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm hoping the doctors 'll have broken the news about her husband and her daughter , sir , ’ said Camb as they crossed the black and white checkerboard foyer of the station . |
| 24 | I 'm hoping the police wo n't stop me . |
| 25 | What am I doing then , I 'm filling the shelves . |
| 26 | I 'm watching the lights and that , and then suddenly Marie says summat . |
| 27 | I 'm getting the toilets |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm taking no chances , ’ replied Mould . |
| 29 | " It may be dangerous and it may not , but I 'm taking no chances with it . |
| 30 | I 'm taking no chances . |