Example sentences of "i [be] [v-ing] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Time , right , I am moving the amendment the reference back and I 'm handing those papers to the Chief Executive and I 'm gon na ask the Chief Executive to get someone independent to do this because you ca n't get away from the numbers that the numbers I 've get someone independent I 'll ask for that . |
| 2 | Personally , I am hoping the trip will also provide me with an insight into relief and development work as I pray about my future . |
| 3 | I am hoping the atmosphere will lift tired legs . ’ |
| 4 | And if you will be good enough to let me go on , you will see how I am monitoring the environment of the infant in order to see precisely what effect it has . |
| 5 | Peter Cole , chairman of Bramshill Parish Council , in whose bailiwick the town would have fallen , said : ‘ I might have an extra beer today , but I am saving the champagne for another 21 days . |
| 6 | The piece starts quite confidently as a " narrative with an elaborated setting " ( I am using the terminology of Labov and Waletsky , 1967 ) . |
| 7 | I have written elsewhere ( Bolton , 1982 ) that the basic skill of acting is : ‘ an ability to engage with something outside oneself using an ‘ as if ’ mental set to activate , sustain or intensify that engagement' and I go on to say , ‘ I am using the word ‘ engagement ’ as a central feature because it implies a relationship at an affective level between a person and the world outside him' ( p. 135 ) . |
| 8 | In the remainder of the discussion in this paper I am using the term ‘ psychic ’ in these senses , although it may seem , at times , in the descriptions of psychic phenomena that these processes are static and fixed . |
| 9 | But pragmatism , as I am using the term here , is a function of pedagogic mediation whereby the relationship between theory and practice , ideas and their actualization , can only be realized within the domain of application , that is , through the immediate activity of teaching . |
| 10 | The crucial difference between economic growth and development , as I am using the term here , is that development may include everything that is already included in economic growth plus criteria of distribution of the social product and democratic politics . |
| 11 | ‘ I am assuming the responsibility for all of my co-workers , both for those things I was aware of and for those things that I discovered in the last few days since the name of Olivetti began circulating . |
| 12 | ‘ While I am pursuing the offender I do not want blood on the streets . ’ |
| 13 | However , I am getting the business matters straightened out and I hope it wo n't be too long before I shall have more time to spend with you . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I am getting the strength in depth that I need , ’ added Perkins . |
| 15 | I am telling the truth . |
| 16 | Just in recent weeks we have had public reports of a cardiologist who has had to turn seriously ill patients away because of the budget system — I am telling the truth about the health — |
| 17 | I am referring the matter to your local collector of taxes for consideration of recovery proceedings . |
| 18 | ‘ I am referring the matter to the National Audit Office as a matter of urgency , ’ he said . |
| 19 | I am seeing the surgeon on Monday , and shall ask him what magic he employed . |
| 20 | ‘ Who says I am writing the story of my life ? |
| 21 | I am considering the acquisition of a small firm in the near future . |
| 22 | Judge William Hannah adjourned the case for social inquiry reports but said : ‘ I am considering the appropriateness of a recommendation that you should be deported from this country because of your activities . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Next time I am taking the air in the palace gardens , I shall send word to you , brother-in-law , ’ I said . |
| 24 | The police service themselves recognize that there has to be a a need for change that they have to be brought up to date er and er I think you 'll see when I a announce my decisions on the Sheahy report er that er I am taking the need to er reform the police service , very seriously indeed . |
| 25 | Whereas Scots generally write " colour " and Australians write " I know the answer " , Americans generally write " color " and Indians in many circumstances write " I am knowing the answer " . |
| 26 | Announcing his departure , Hickey commented : ‘ I am leaving the post at a natural time in Filmhouse 's history and on a personal level it enables me to take on a new challenge while moving to another area of the film industry . |
| 27 | ‘ There is no point ’ , she said , ‘ in you sitting in class doing nothing while I am teaching the rest of the form the two-times table and how to spell cat and rat and mouse . |
| 28 | ' I am sending the boy away , ’ he continued . |
| 29 | A succession of right-wing Hollywood personages , James Stewart , John Wayne and the like , were climbing onto a platform to bawl into a microphone , ‘ I am mounting the bandwagon of Tamas Eee Dooey . ’ |
| 30 | I am losing the thread . |