Example sentences of "i 'm [be] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
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| 1 | Yeah yeah I went , well eventually but like you say it was long wh it was a long while before I actually did get to sleep but got there eventually I 'm been to solicitor today Annie . |
| 2 | I 'm been blue sorry . |
| 3 | Erm I 'm of er I 'm been asked your |
| 4 | I 'm are n't I ? |
| 5 | saying is that , all I 'm is erm why do n't you erm ke do n't think of the money because how valuable is she to you ? |
| 6 | Well , well no , no because it was then about , that 's what I 'm is , then four o'clock you see , so I mean I knew I would n't make it anyway that 's why I thought I 'd better ring cos the job that we finished was half past three so I thought well even if I come home I shall be late even if I do n't get changed and washed or anything . |
| 7 | So I said , I 'm sorry , no I 'm is it , the law officer , spur of the moment , I mean , I did n't know I was gon na finish up there . |
| 8 | Well I erm , I was , I was burgled about a year ago and I 'm am ex er , I 'm a retired criminal lawyer , and , but I , I felt that if I lived in the States and trained in the States and I carried a gun then and I felt very vulnerable in not having a gun because he , I was in my own home and he fist me with a knife |
| 9 | I 'm being allowed onto her ecologically correct territory , and no one there will know how we kissed and almost , as good as , made love … but I will and she will . |
| 10 | ‘ You think I 'm being selfish . |
| 11 | Of course I 'm being most unfair , but that 's a reader 's prerogative . |
| 12 | I know I 'm shouting , but I do n't care if I 'm being naughty . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm being polite . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm being careful , ’ Erika said , in a voice which meant that Rosa could mind her own business . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm being poisoned by my saucepans , ’ she whispered darkly . |
| 16 | ‘ You think I 'm being carried away by enthusiasm . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Obviously I 'm being polluted by an American . ’ |
| 18 | When Maggie had perched herself on one she said , Does this mean I 'm being interviewed ? ’ |
| 19 | I 'm being given an epidural . |
| 20 | I 'm being led — on some dark way . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Sorry , I 'm being stupid , it 's just as if you might be too kind , too — you know — ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I think I 'm being direct . |
| 23 | I know it sounds as if I 'm being clever , but I felt then we 'd won . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm being followed by friends in a Land Rover . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I need a solicitor — well Legal Aid — I mean I 'm being done for — you know — interfering with my daughter — incest they call it do n't they ? ’ |
| 26 | I 've got all day and I 'm being paid . ’ |
| 27 | The air seems to dry up — I ca n't breathe — I 'm being bounced , beaten up by nothing . |
| 28 | The thing that 's flying towards me is multicoloured — I 'm being beaten up by colours — grass-green violet scarlet beige BANG rust indigo lime BANG ! rose-pink slate-grey flame-orange BANG BANG ! — and the colours have got my face . |
| 29 | I 'm being beaten up by a jumbled-up rainbow-coloured ME . |
| 30 | You can clasp the arm of the nearest gawping workmate and express your tearful relief , saying , ‘ Thank God you 've arrived , chaps , I 'm being held prisoner ! ’ |