Example sentences of "i be being " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Onstage , ’ Fred reflects , ‘ he 's this outrageous lunatic camp person , but half an hour after the gig he 's back at the hotel reading Somerset Maugham and Rob and I are being disgusting to some barmaid completely off our head . ’ |
| 2 | Lesley and even Emma and I are being seen as lads , unfeminine , trying to be blokes . |
| 3 | ‘ Perhaps I am being selfish , ’ she writes . |
| 4 | He is also an inch or two taller than I am , Not even the most stupid policeman in the land could possibly mistake him for me in an identity parade , but I suppose I am being too optimistic in assuming that literary critics are likely to be more intelligent or perceptive than an ignorant cop . |
| 5 | ‘ And as for the idea that I am being some how manipulated all I can say is that I do n't know about the other girls but I have been in a similar industry — television , for the last couple of years and now I know how it works . |
| 6 | Now I am being besieged by offers of films in Hollywood and other areas . |
| 7 | When I am being helped into a bath of hot water , however , I draw in my breath and cry out for her : ‘ Mama ! |
| 8 | ‘ I am being realistic , I want the best for all of us . ’ |
| 9 | I have myself devised many staff plans over the years , and I do not believe I am being unduly boastful if I say that very few ever needed amendment . |
| 10 | But the reality is , ladies and gentlemen , I am being merciful . |
| 11 | In conversation with my French boyfriend the other day , he said , ‘ I am being quite Fred with you ’ . |
| 12 | I am being objective , not self-pitying , because quite honestly I am not much interested in men anyway . |
| 13 | Indeed every second customer is probably just like me , but the charade is going to be played out on the basis that I am being difficult . |
| 14 | They are enjoying themselves — I am being excluded/rejected/ abandoned/ignored . |
| 15 | Of course , I realise I am being unfair and that they were mostly awfully lonely boys far from home . |
| 16 | ‘ That is what I am being paid to find out . |
| 17 | It is not love when the concern is the fact that I am being inconvenienced , but it is when the concern is for the damage that is being done to my partner and our relationship . |
| 18 | I thought : I am being psychoanalysed . |
| 19 | He took it up and read : ‘ Many readers will probably have learned by now that I am being sued by Miss Hilary Robarts , the Acting Administrative Officer at Larksoken Power Station , for alleged libel arising from what I wrote in the May issue of the news-sheet . |
| 20 | Her core beliefs were ‘ I have no right to be alive ’ and , with somewhat convoluted logic , ‘ I am being forced to stay alive as a punishment for being born . ’ |
| 21 | Some weeks later , discussing the arts , she admitted the English sense of humour was difficult to understand initially , and only now could she laugh at my greeting of , ‘ Help , I am being bitten by a sanitary towel ! ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I am being very puzzled , my friend , ’ said the young Pakistani . |
| 23 | In the middle of a still most active social life I am being drawn into an absolute solitude in which I can not even entertain myself with the motions of the teleonomic mechanisms on stage or screen , and making love is equivalent to copulating with a perfectly lifelike mechanical doll . |
| 24 | ‘ I do n't like the fact that I am being pushed out in the cold . |
| 25 | I am being stabbed . |
| 26 | Livingston , who has vowed to clear his name after British athletics chiefs banned him for four years for drugs cheating , said : ‘ I am being imprisoned for something I have n't done . |
| 27 | I am being a trifle cunning in this , as I do not want you to forget me . |
| 28 | I am being punished for being an invalid and paying my national insurance contributions for 40 years . |
| 29 | ‘ I remember her card : ‘ I am being very attentively cared for by the hotel doctor , William Simpson . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I ca n't believe I am being blamed for a fight that went on in the stand behind us , and I hope video evidence will clearly back me up . ’ |