Example sentences of "be [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " I 'm not really selling anything , " she said hastily , " but if I am I 'll let you know . " |
| 2 | If you promise not to tell them where I am I 'll give you my mum 's address . |
| 3 | yeah when I get home I am I 'll just stick that in the there 's er a , a pie |
| 4 | no I 'm not no when I am I ca n't eat anything , if I was like that I just could n't bear to be even in the same room as anybody who 's eating , so no the urge of chocolate is possibly to do with fat |
| 5 | Well I suppose I am I shall phone Ruth and see . |
| 6 | I take it that I do n't like modern art and yet I can imagine that while being the same person that I am I might have liked modern art . |
| 7 | Mind , I suppose if I were the sort of person you obviously think I am I would have known about your predilection for pretty girls — and your low boredom threshold , ’ she said scathingly . |
| 8 | PAMELA : I wo n't take the money , indeed , sir , poor as I am I wo n't . |
| 9 | which I really am I 'd have brought over my |
| 10 | Even the interview system is not an ideal one — once again you 're having to sell yourself — and if you 're a character actor like I am I can not show myself without being somebody else . |
| 11 | I 'm not in a draught where I am I can assure you . |
| 12 | They are I would say , ninety percent semi- skilled . |
| 13 | The difficulties that sometimes occur is that erm universities are I would say with some justice do n't always accept that it is Government and Government departments , ministers and civil servants , who are best equipped to define the social needs . |
| 14 | I 'd just go and say , here are I ca n't ha , why ca n't I have any money ? |
| 15 | In fact I 'll change with the last record that I heard ; if I hear someone I really like on a record , or even at a gig before I play , then the chances are I 'll be playing some of his licks . |
| 16 | If it 's a one-off affair in some yard , the chances are I 'll probably never ever go there , I 'm really completely reliant … on his reaction . … ’ |
| 17 | If they learn who you are I 'll lose more business than I can afford . |
| 18 | here you are I 'll give you this look , this is a nice soft cloth , you can give it a rub with that oh dear |
| 19 | that 's right , and I thought well while the the pile 's there they wo n't know whose they are I 'll just . |
| 20 | You just forget it and you can have your apple tomorrow , I 'll save it for you , right , there you are I 'll put it back in there and you can have it tomorrow |
| 21 | Oh come on I 'll do it for you , well you 've got ta press so and so , here you are I 'll do it . |
| 22 | Cos if you are I 'll have to move mine . |
| 23 | Anyway Maggie says oh bugger it she says here you are I 'll pay for it so I give it her back as soon as I come home . |
| 24 | Here are I 'll show you getting it . . |
| 25 | My spelling is awful by the way so the chances are I wo n't spot any spelling mistakes , yeah ? |
| 26 | Erm we we are I will be er as brief as I possibly can be on this one . |
| 27 | Erm and without s sounding too pretentious about it I mean there are I can see this as being a sort of mission if you like . |
| 28 | Was I perhaps too busy noticing things that Dr Starkie was missing ( though what they might have been I ca n't for the moment think ) ? |
| 29 | That would have been I would say maybe August nineteen thirty eight . |
| 30 | If there had been I would n't have come here to work , and you know that fact quite well , so forget your so-called ‘ rights ’ , ’ she finished scornfully . |