Example sentences of "[pron] be [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Negative , extremist , in them are fused sectarian party orthodoxy and individual self-deliverance . |
| 2 | As for me , I am drinking bad coffee , gazing at the rain and cautiously pondering my imminent return to the glamorous world of Highland rock'n'roll . |
| 3 | ( I should stress that I am using human size as an imaginary example : I do not know how many genetic loci and alleles are really at work in this case . ) |
| 4 | I am getting psychiatric help , I have a supporting family and good friends and I 'm no longer ashamed . |
| 5 | I stroke Timmy 's forehead more and more lightly , until I am stroking empty air . |
| 6 | ’ I am taking evasive action ’ . |
| 7 | Suppose I am taking prescribed medication ? |
| 8 | If I reply that in choosing between flavours it does not matter whether or not I confound a present taste with remembered sight and touch , whether I respond to reality or to illusion , I am renouncing rational discourse altogether . |
| 9 | To loose them off together , scatter-gun fashion : Stavrogin says ‘ I am making this statement , incidentally , to prove I am in full possession of my mental faculties and understand my position ’ ; ‘ I want to forgive myself , this is my chief aim , my whole aim ’ ; ‘ I want everyone to look at me ’ ; ‘ I fall back on this as my last resource ’ ; ‘ The thing about me then was I felt bored with life , sick and tired of it ’ ; ‘ I am seeking boundless suffering ’ ; ‘ I took it into my head to mutilate my life somehow ’ ( not necessarily the same thing as seeking suffering , any more than seeking suffering need entail accepting it ) . |
| 10 | I am investigating alternative day care provision for elderly adults with learning difficulties . |
| 11 | It is ignored for cast after cast , using a new crust each time of course , but I am not surprised for I am having great difficulty keeping the line from bowing , for the current is slightly faster between the crust and the bank . |
| 12 | I am making good progress — slow but sure — and have now graduated on to walking sticks , although I feel very wobbly on these having had the crutches for a month . |
| 13 | I am giving poor Father the benefit of the doubt . |
| 14 | Philip Hughes , chairman of Logica Holdings and another member of the Alvey committee , said ‘ I am showing great patience at the moment … the matter is at Prime Ministerial level . |
| 15 | Your new orders will also confirm that I am to assume overall charge of the investigation . |
| 16 | Having no real computing knowledge I am finding Practical PC an altogether most excellent monthly . |
| 17 | ‘ Has someone been spreading malicious gossip ? ’ he asked innocently , and reached for her hand . |
| 18 | ‘ Someone been smoking whacky baccy again ? ’ |
| 19 | Number Two : If I borrow anything from you , will I be receiving stolen property ? |
| 20 | But I 'm watching Teenage Hero Turtles . |
| 21 | I 'm called full time Youth Evangelist and work for the Pembury Free Church . |
| 22 | The Citizen 's Advice Bureau has got a pro forma which if a person goes in and says I think I ought to be getting , I think I , I do n't think I 'm getting sufficient income support or I 'm going to apply for income support . |
| 23 | I 'm taking early retirement . ’ |
| 24 | I 'm gulping hot coffee and pulling on my coat ; my bag 's sitting on the reception desk in the hotel lobby and Andy 's standing , hunched and blinking and bleary-eyed , watching me stuff toast into my mouth and slurp coffee from a handle-free mug . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm gathering local colour . ’ |
| 26 | Now what you want to do in the privacy of your own home in terms of art is one thing , but if I 'm using public money I really need to be able to justify it . |
| 27 | John Dunne Show , Radio 2 , I 'm plugging opening night . |
| 28 | We insist the conceptual design , and I 'm underlining conceptual design , is the responsibility of the function and section engineers , who have bottom line responsibility for each project . |
| 29 | I 'm paying top dollar and I expect the best . |
| 30 | And while I 'm talking Labour running , I notice that the original seconder if this motion was one Councillor , the former arch cash-cutter of Social Services |