Example sentences of "it [be] [adj] of me [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And would it be impolite of me to enquire exactly where you and the other officers have been for the last eight hours ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Would it be rude of me to ask who he was hiding it from ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ When we heard about poor Alain Gebrec being dead , I had a sudden vision of Dora looking furiously angry … you know how she sometimes glares at Dieter … and I thought for a moment … supposing it had been Dieter who 'd been killed … it might have been Dora who had … oh , I know it 's dreadful of me to think these things , but she hates him so much . ’ |
| 4 | Perhaps you think it 's foolish of me to want just a ‘ good morning ’ , but you have never loved a beautiful woman like yourself , as I do . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Well ma'am , there 's some scraps of food left over and … it 's bold of me to say so … but if it was going to be wasted I know my cousins would feel the benefit . |
| 6 | It is wrong of me to have hated you because you are white . |
| 7 | ‘ It was rash of me to promise when I 'm constantly so strapped for cash . ’ |
| 8 | All I could do was to mumble that I regretted not taking my degree , and , though I could see it was irritating of me to whine , to feel stale and bored was not such a trivial thing ; that though we might have the vote now , meals still had to be prepared and children looked after and since this kind of drudgery was despised by society as not being ‘ real work ’ , we were in the hideous position of being both exhausted and imprisoned by it and also looked down on for doing it ; that I had honestly tried to be the sort of wife Richard wanted — and the sort of wife I felt I ought to be — but it was like being in a kind of airless cell and I could only see Richard as a jailer ; that I saw myself becoming progressively more and more incapable of doing anything , not just mentally , but from some kind of paralysis of will . |
| 9 | It was stupid of me to try to marry you like that without explaining . |
| 10 | It was foolish of me to forget how news spreads in a village . ’ |
| 11 | You 've been such a good and loyal friend to me all these years , and I know it was wrong of me to ask something so demanding of you , but … ’ |
| 12 | That was my excuse to myself , although I knew it was wrong of me to leave only two unwounded men to guard the stockade . |
| 13 | ‘ And it was wrong of me to reject it out of hand . |
| 14 | It was wrong of me to come running to you . |
| 15 | It was wrong of me to write you such an angry note : please accept my apologies . |
| 16 | I decided it was unfair of me to say anything , and that if you wanted the trip so badly you probably did n't want me . |
| 17 | ‘ Perhaps it was unwise of me to keep my suspicions to myself . |
| 18 | Yes , it was silly of me to forget that you had been to Scotland often — one of those mental slips which I am increasingly prone to . |
| 19 | He said , ‘ It was careless of me to leave that one in the recorder . |