Example sentences of "i [be] writing a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 But by the summer I am writing a homosexual love-story which I preface with the following remark :
2 I 'm writing a long article about the horrors of the diet and exercise industry . ’ )
3 Well , I 'm writing a popular science book , at present .
4 ‘ It 's not as though I were writing a new book , ’ Elinor said crossly .
5 For instance , I was writing a new song and it was making sense and suddenly these words came into my head : Once there was two Mexican women/ran over the hill/ripped off their skin/and ate it up .
6 When Dr Richard Lawrence , the society 's secretary , learned that I was writing a Christian appraisal of paganism and the occult , he pointed out that Aetherius ' members fully revered Jesus , and were convinced of his virgin birth and resurrection .
7 Physically and erm emotionally writing can be very isolating and so , for example a few years ago , I was writing a huge piece on Africa about Africa and I found emotions growing that I actually did n't have names for , erm and it made it impossible to finish the piece I was working on , and then I , I went to see an Afro Asian exhibition of art and I saw portraying some of these paintings the same emotions and it , it did n't give me a name for the emotions but it , it made me feel an awful lot less isolated seeing that erm other people have also , have also felt this .
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