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Example sentences of "[verb] i [be] [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	I do n't think I am taking this line merely because I have been corrupted by a philosophical training and can not come off the fence .
2	I do n't think I 'm eating enough to actually make myself go .
3	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 .
4	‘ What do you think I 'm doing all this for ?
5	What the hell do you think I 'm doing all this for ?
6	‘ Do n't think I 'm doing this out of pity for you , ’ he called .
7	Now if I were to suggest to you that in some gay bars the ‘ lads ’ pop off to the toilets that number of times to indulge themselves , then you might think I was repeating lurid propaganda put about by the puritan league .
8	‘ Why should I force myself to pretend I 'm enjoying this ? ’
9	Then two years ago I realised I was going broke .
10	I realised I was missing half the jokes , so I mugged up from a textbook — and here I am , ready for more ! ’
11	Erm I thought that erm I , I mean I was getting some things that John has n't , has n't mentioned , erm when you mentioned the wife being there erm when you , when you were introducing the C C Q you then assumed that you would be coming back with recommendations
12	I think that would do the trick but preparing handou I mean I was doing those till two , this lot for you this mor I 'm absolutely y'know it 's quite hard work when you 're concurrently teaching all the time .
13	I mean I 'm finding that you know through it because I 'm sort of straining all the time I 'm getting terrible headaches and all of the
14	Oh yeah I mean I 'm saying two a day , but erm if you can get three a day , I 'd prefer it because
15	The Stephen They 're not all I mean I 'm saying that 's right but that some of them there are more than one answer to .
16	Well I 'm I 'm not some I would n't I would n't say that I mean I 'm saying that erm
17	‘ How did you know I was imagining that ?
18	Do you know I was thinking this the other day , do you think , say there was some girl like , let's just take Flick no , somebody , who do , who do , who do the people think 's real , who do the blokes always , yeah Flick they think is a real frump do n't they ?
19	He just looked at me as if to say ‘ how did you know I was doing that ? ’
20	You say how do you know I was doing forty miles an hour ?
21	He does n't know I 'm doing this .
22	Like I say I 'm getting some erm
23	Out drinking with a couple of female journalists ( in what was supposedly Hemingway 's favourite bar in Havana , if you must know ) , I mentioned I was writing this article and we all launched into our favourite New Age stories , like the one about the Immortalists , a group who take to its logical end the New Age philosophy of positive thinking and creating your own reality , and have decided they are going to live forever .
24	Please God let me be doing real work .
25	My dealer says I am doing all the right things and that it 's fairly usual to lose fish with a new tank .
26	Oh you mean if you , , I says I was getting that for years Berty .
27	He says I 'm writing these things to you about those who are trying to lead you astray .
28	Aye , she says I 'm feeling sick , well that 's er all your if your head is what you call it when you feel awful , you know I say if you 've been on the , on the drink you know when you get up and your head ooh , well that sets your stomach off , so his trouble 's coming from his head , on his stomach
29	Steve keeps saying he were he says I 'm having that tape recorder , I says you 're not she 's coming to take it back .
30	He says I 'm coming New Year 's Day , alright , he went down and he shut it , cos I went in the shop and I says er hang on I thought you was open New Year 's Day ?