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For me, however, the color will never be the primary consideration, unless I am constructing a table tableau.

From New York Times • Aug. 6, 2021

So stay tuned, because the education first budget that I am constructing will be designed to provide us the opportunity to truly change lives moving forward.

From Washington Times • Jan. 14, 2020

I still see those branching sentence diagrams in my head when I am constructing subordinate clauses.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 7, 2019

To assure its safety and construct it Page 82in the modern style, although it was quite sufficiently strong before, I am constructing cavaliers which are to serve as buttresses for it.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 07 of 55 1588-1591 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Robertson, James Alexander

"I am constructing a superiority for myself," he said once.

From Casa Braccio, Volumes 1 and 2 by Castaigne, J. André