Example sentences of "am [v-ing] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My parents still do n't know what course I am pursuing at a college of education . |
| 2 | I am allowing for the fact that , in a substantial number of cases , investigations could not be concluded , and many complaints were withdrawn . |
| 3 | Suddenly , Stairway to Paradise is echoing through the theatre and I am stepping into the spotlight sliding faster and faster . |
| 4 | As I am drawing to a close , as I can find no further connections or criticisms of these two books however obvious or unobvious they may be , I would like to leave you with an appropriate quote from one of my books . |
| 5 | What I am suggesting for an understanding of the workings of television generic fiction and its associated forms of subjectivity ( or , indeed , of narrative cinema and its subjectivity ) , is that it may be more fruitful if we approach it as an historical development of the complex , theoretical genre of novelistic discourse rather than as a collection of autonomous elementary , historical genres . |
| 6 | I am copulating with the blacksmith . ’ ’ |
| 7 | Josnau a di chop — I am eating at the moment |
| 8 | Inevitably , I am elaborating after the event in intellectual terms . |
| 9 | I am puzzling over the dot matrix display board that 's trying to tell me what trains are coming my way . |
| 10 | Perhaps , if I am strong , then I am scheming like a man ? |
| 11 | An alkali will obviously have to be introduced to neutralise the acid and I am toying with the idea of lime in one form or another . |
| 12 | I am , at present I am applying for a job on the |
| 13 | I am applying for the post of … |
| 14 | Partly I am mesmerised by its spinach-green tanks and cowling , its red pulleys , dogs and levers , its greasy leather belts , its twitching , glittering blades , stink of hot oil , petrol , exhaust … and partly I am praying for the chance that something — I 've no idea what , but just something — may go wrong … so that I , Jimbo , the firstborn , may step into the breach and save the day . |
| 15 | She told The Universe , the Catholic weekly : ‘ I am praying for the family and I feel very sorry for them . |
| 16 | I am praying to the God of Laughter for unconditional mercy . |
| 17 | I am dallying on the brink , and for an ex-smoker , the brink is a perilous place to be ; for an ex-smoker of the left , it is more perilous still . |
| 18 | ‘ Well , that 's an artful way to get me to wait on you , ’ interrupted Sally-Anne frankly , ‘ and I suppose , since you are so cunning , and I am dying for a drink , you might have your way — perhaps a bonus on my wages might be an idea , seeing that I shall be doing this out of hours . ’ |
| 19 | I like to think that I am laughing at the idea , which has as real a set of consequences as bombs in a Tom and Jerry cartoon . |
| 20 | I am laughing in the darkness . |
| 21 | But if I , with the very same eyes and brain , am walking through a forest at dusk , I may well fail to distinguish almost any dull-coloured insect from the twigs that abound everywhere . |
| 22 | I am ordering for the week . ’ |
| 23 | I am searching for a pattern . |
| 24 | In summary , I am looking for a jacket which is wind and water proof , breathable , looks respectable enough to turn up at the office in , and offers conspicuity . |
| 25 | I am looking for a man . ’ |
| 26 | I 'm a 27 year old male on kidney dialysis and am looking for a computer to use at home with the long-term objective of working in computer programming . |
| 27 | A very authoritative voice shouted : " Joe , I must come in because I am looking for a wing commander . |
| 28 | ‘ Yes , I am looking for a receptionist . |
| 29 | I am looking at a photograph of an adult dunnock , so small in comparison to its monstrous foster-child that it has to perch on its back in order to feed it . |
| 30 | What a queasy period those inter-war years now seem ( I am looking at the chicken curry ) , the old hatreds and prejudices simmering and bubbling nicely with all the dark , irrational fears surfacing in a way that rational people like Cohn-Casson believed had long ago been rendered obsolete by the evolutionary nature of society . |