Example sentences of "[be] [pers pn] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And why , thought Adam , sleepless and sore in his damp cloak under the trees , why am I here to fret at it still ? |
| 2 | Am I being defiant , Anna thought now , pushing her metal cage of bottles down the aisle towards her allotted shelves , am I simply cocking a snook at Peter ? |
| 3 | She says , ‘ How am I going to get round all these people phoning me up saying , ‘ Why am I not getting calls , it 's all your fault ’ , you know , all the rest of it ’ , when they have n't diverted their telephone to the right extension number . |
| 4 | Am I not sending you ? ’ |
| 5 | Not only am I not prepared to have a semi-detached marriage , but I 'm convinced that if you really cared for me you would have no hesitation about placing my interests first , ’ had been his parting shot as he had left the apartment , slamming the front door loudly behind him . |
| 6 | So what am I doing here , why am I not tucked safely up in bed like most sane people and why is there no prospect of any further rest until we get to Burslem in Stoke , more than 60 miles away ? |
| 7 | Got to have that Dils doo dee doo doo doo I 'll go and change I 'm gon na let my hair go down am I not wearing a football shirt ? |
| 8 | Why am I not trying to go out |
| 9 | ‘ Am I not allowed to say buenas tardes ? ’ |
| 10 | Why am I not allowed to feel the same about something that means a great deal to me ? ’ she retorted fiercely . |
| 11 | That 's the way I feel , am I not allowed ? |
| 12 | Am I not to think aloud in your presence ? |
| 13 | You therefore , constantly and vigilantly , ask yourself , ‘ why am I not doing a priority task instead of this one ? ’ |
| 14 | Or am I not permitted to speak in my own house ? ’ |
| 15 | And only now , two years after my return , am I finally beginning to make sense of my experience there . |
| 16 | Am I also leaving a mark here ? |
| 17 | ‘ Am I also to have no happiness ? ’ |
| 18 | when you come and stay with me , she , anyway she , she would n't , well in the end I just said that 's it I 've had enough I switched the car off and grabbed hold of her I said , frogmarched her in the car I said come on , I 'm going to bed , Rudy 's ready for bed I said I want you with me , so that I can keep me eye on you if I have to sit up all bloody night , of course when she was with me I picked her up and got her strong again and I say you have to be worth it , you 're better off without him then she come round and then she 'd say I know I am I just go down |
| 19 | Am I still covered under BUPA ? |
| 20 | P.S. I work for the Inland Revenue — am I still allowed to be a punk ? |
| 21 | Am I , am I definitely doing it ? |
| 22 | Why am I always given the responsibility of looking after the microphones , I 've done this for years well think about this brother here , he made cheese for years and he did n't like the job one bit , now is n't that strange , do you know why ? |
| 23 | Glancing at the revealing pictures on the video boxes , I ask myself : am I really prepared to see a five-months pregnant woman get fucked doggie style ? |
| 24 | We have an Amstrad DMP 3160 printer , which seems fine to me , but occasionally I could do with some fancy fonts and am I really looking for DTP ? |
| 25 | Most of the scriptures we 'll be looking at today is very familiar with us we know them and some of them we may be able to recite without even looking at the words , but er , if we can try and get you to think a little bit about them , then we 've achieved something , if we can get you to think that , you know , well am I dozing or am I really awake as I should be , then we 'll achieve more , in verse eleven it speaks there about er , you people knowing the season , well what people are we talking about ? |
| 26 | ‘ Am I really forcing you into this ? ’ |
| 27 | Am I really going to wear these in public ? |
| 28 | Jesus , am I really going to say this ? |
| 29 | If I faintly wish Isabella had had some intellectual interests — and she could have been very funny about them — am I perhaps wrong ? |
| 30 | How am I possibly going to explain ? |