Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 A lot of them are going out of the area , but I think er I 'd imagine that a large majority or a a large proportion certainly would wish to stay in .
2 Hamish and I are going over to the Island to see her next weekend .
3 Hi , After lengthy negotiations in private , Gav & I are going along to the Sunderland game together on Wednesday .
4 When Cousteau comes back with the divers and equipment , Van Gelder and I are going down with them to have a look at this plane .
5 ‘ Suzi and I are going back to her dance studio and she 's going to put me through the dance routine again . ’
6 But I am thinking back to the days before the war — the ‘ 39–45 war in Europe , that is — when a reporter was actually expected to know the place he was writing about .
7 And this gentleman in West Yorkshire would certainly have the blessing of many if he carried out his idea : ‘ Having taken early retirement , I am casting about for some way to supplement my pension .
8 ‘ Do you still think I am holding back on Surere ? ’
9 The success — I am looking out of the window at the thickly carpeted mountainside — comes from the knowledge of shared weakness , the weakness of both men and women in matters of sex and passion .
10 I am looking down on the world , but it does not stretch away over nebulous distant horizons .
11 I am catching up on George Orwell , too , and reading Solzhenitsyn .
12 Bob is away on a day 's painting course today , so I am catching up with my letters before the Christmas deluge .
13 We will get over it and I am getting on with the work in hand . ’
14 Gav is setting off from Oxford , I am setting off from West London .
15 –This is the fourth annual report which I have presented to the Village Association in the last five years and it is for me the most pleasing , not because I am standing down as chairman but because I feel that it is the most positive report that I have been able to give .
16 ‘ This is the fourth annual report which I have presented to the Village Association in the last five years and it is for me the most pleasing , not because I am standing down as chairman but because I feel that it is the most positive report that I have been able to give .
17 I am driving over from Merseyside , so if the lad from Warrington is reading this , perhaps he 'd like to cadge a lift .
18 He said I pays my poll tax he says and I am paying out of my savings he said now what the heck will I do when my bloody savings is gone .
19 Do n't remember going to bed , but I must have done because I am sitting up in Nigel 's parents ' bed writing my diary .
20 By the time I am sitting down to breakfast I ask myself , ‘ Where would I go ? ’ ’
21 You see the conclusion I am leading up to .
22 Now I am twittering on about buying a new workshop , equipping it with this or that kind of planer/thicknesser , getting this or that panel saw .
23 ‘ Because I am running out of money , ’ she added , and she crossed her fingers beneath the light blanket which Miss Mates had thrown over her earlier and asked God to forgive her for such dreadful lies , and so many of them .
24 I am walking back to my hotel after dinner with a Bucharest novelist and his family and being graciously escorted by him and his wife through the still evidently dangerous , silent streets .
25 At 7.30 I am walking out through the town in the direction of Lochy bridge then across Blarmhor .
26 I am going round about Whitsun , perhaps May 20th … ’
27 I am going round to Nigel 's in the morning .
28 ‘ You had better get yourself into the washhouse and clean yourself up , ’ she said , ‘ I am going round to the Post Office and let Sid Watkins know . ’
29 So when you got pass there Ju do n't forget you say I am going up to middle class !
30 Does this mean that as I am going up in the lift , I see it expanding ? ’
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