Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] i be " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the lorries are unloaded I am aware of a disturbance . |
| 2 | Here I am told I 'm free , I 'm the equal of everyone , fair play is the name of the game . |
| 3 | I have also been told I am photogenic and I love anything to do with hair and make-up . |
| 4 | With one-upmanship , I told them it was near Lebanon , Smith County , Kansas , but since then have been told I am wrong . |
| 5 | Having been told I was special from a very young age , you believe everything is possible , but I also knew that you got nothing unless you worked hard . |
| 6 | I explained how it was that as a child I had been told I was an eidetiker but that it had meant nothing to me . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've been told I was many things in my life , but too hasty … |
| 8 | I needed to find out who I had been told I was before I could contradict it . |
| 9 | Now , that 's and example of functional group isomerism what I 'd like you to do now is to try and decide what these two things are called I 'm gon na put on the board and try and decide what you would call them in terms these general labels under structural isomerism . |
| 10 | By the time Don Black , lyricist of Tell Me On A Sunday and Aspects of Love , and one of the funniest men in the Western Bloc , came in to the studio to be interviewed I was a frothing heap . |
| 11 | After a week I claimed for reimbursement from my insurance company , only to be told I was not covered ! |
| 12 | C. I used to be told I was good at English . |
| 13 | Oh I ca n't be bothered I 'm going home in a minute . |
| 14 | I 'm told I 'm looking transitional — hope this means it 's not much longer . |
| 15 | I 'm told I 'm good at English but I do n't get very high marks . ’ |
| 16 | Er Lot number ninety two Lot number ninety two is the seal Lot number ninety two for thirty pounds , at thirty , thirty five , at thirty five pounds in white , thirty five only , forty , forty five fifty pounds , at fifty five , sixty , sixty five seventy I 'm offered I 'm offered seventy pounds on my right , seventy five eighty pounds eighty five ninety ninety five a hundred and ten twenty thirty forty one forty bid against you now one forty is here at one forty , all done ? |
| 17 | Lot number one one seven Lot number one one seven is the next to offer celadon jade er pendant another jade pendant for fifty pounds , at fifty , fifty five pounds at fifty five pounds , any more at fifty five pounds only , at fifty five , sixty sixty five seventy I 'm offered I 'm offered seventy to my left and I shall take seventy pounds , any more at seventy ? ? |
| 18 | For example , the written sentence My next destination is Finland and in particular Kuusamo , which is a town close to the Soviet border might be spoken I 'm off to Finland next . |
| 19 | I was told that the manager had gone to lunch , and when I asked for him to be bleeped I was told again that he had gone to lunch and that he had left his bleep at the switchboard — all in a tone that suggested that this was standard behaviour . |
| 20 | I let it be known I was n't really interested in going out again , and hoped they 'd get the message — that I was finished with it . ’ |
| 21 | Lot number forty one , the brass sticks there we are , we 've got one of them showing for you just one of them showing , I 've got a hundred and fifty offered for it , one fifty , sixty , seventy , eighty one ninety , two hundred I 'm bid I 'm offered two hundred pounds , anybody else at two hundred and selling at two hundred , two twenty , two forty going on ? |
| 22 | If this advice had been followed I 'm sure Mr Lee would not have been so worried . |
| 23 | The standing orders committee has been involved I 'm sorry , the standing orders committee has been informed that the central executive council has withdrawn motion two . |
| 24 | When Steer died she is reported to have said , ‘ Now he and Sickert are gone I 'm the only artist left ’ ! 13 She wanted to be seen at the top where she clearly felt she belonged , doing the same as the best , as well as the best . |
| 25 | When they were privatised I was on the Opposition Front Bench and did the job so well that I am no longer there . |
| 26 | I can legitimately say , ‘ I know ’ , and add in the same breath , ‘ but I am open to being shown I am wrong ’ . |
| 27 | Jimmy , 62 , said yesterday : ‘ I suppose it was rather strange being told I was being awarded the CBE while standing there in the altogether . |
| 28 | After all those years of being told I was fat , I had the evidence in front of me and I suddenly realised what everyone had been going on about . |
| 29 | Paintings erm have the power to take you back in time , I can look at a painting and remember something that 's happened yesterday or years and years ago and as a small child , looking at this painting I remembered as a small child seeing for the first time erm the sea dipping into er , sorry the sun dipping into , into the sea and being horrified I was convinced that the heat of the sun would boil the oceans and the world dry and it reminded me for an awful lot of my childhood and I 'm sure if I 'd seen this painting years ago it would of persuaded me otherwise , erm this is called In A Days Work Satisfaction in a days work , chosen not given , eating the laxed food , face turned to steer a sun , making cloth into a gown and giving colour to the side of a boat |
| 30 | While all the posed pictures were being taken I was edging round among the columnists saying , " Please , give us a break , do n't put in that it happened at Drummonds . |