Example sentences of "[verb] i be [being] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked at me hard , realized I was being honest , and did as I asked . |
| 2 | I do not think I am being cruel . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't think I 'm being treated fairly and I want to know what the hell is going on . ’ |
| 4 | I do n't think I 'm being pessimistic , just realistic about the fact that 's really hard to keep things together , with friends or lovers . |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't think I 'm being ridiculous . |
| 6 | And er I do n't think I 'm being too sort of general here if I sort of quote the place of the local preacher or the the person who 's leading our worship . |
| 7 | I hope you do n't think I 'm being enigmatic , by the way . |
| 8 | " Please do n't think I 'm being inquisitive . |
| 9 | But do n't think I 'm being complacent about this . |
| 10 | ‘ You know … please do n't think I 'm being funny ! — maybe Mr Hambro saw the Aurae Phiala ghost . |
| 11 | Do n't think I 'm being bitchy if I say that Stephen probably resents him as much as he admires him . |
| 12 | ‘ You might think I 'm being silly , but I feel he 'll blame Brett for everything that 's gone wrong for him , and come back looking for revenge . ’ |
| 13 | and with hindsight , although , do n't think I 'm being over critical , although you put forward eighty or so estimates for different schemes , with hindsight it 's clearly more prudent and fairer and accurate , more accurate to have a contingency fund is n't it ? , in the , in the budgetary cost |
| 14 | ‘ I do n't think I 'm being terribly personal . |
| 15 | I did n't think I was being very original any longer and I was basically administering . |
| 16 | Sprinting is my living , and I did n't think I was being paid enough to appear in Britain . |
| 17 | And I 'm sending all this lot off that did n't get sent off , and contacting I 'm being contacted about the place . |
| 18 | I realised I was being deceived , ’ he told the General Medical Council 's professional conduct committee . |
| 19 | ‘ I fully realised I was being firmly pushed out of your life when you went back to England . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ 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 ? ’ |
| 21 | Woo I 'm being careful . |
| 22 | It has to be in a jug in case Mother Clare comes in and thinks I 'm being treated like someone normal . |
| 23 | He told me he had heard I was being watched , and that someone was looking for Magwitch . |
| 24 | I expect I 'm being silly though , Hazel . |
| 25 | Of course , I realise I am being unfair and that they were mostly awfully lonely boys far from home . |
| 26 | I found I was being sent to some ghastly hole , miles from civilisation , on top of the Lincolnshire wolds , and as I trekked sullenly north , little did I know how the course of my life was about to be permanently changed . |
| 27 | I believed I was being useful to my country and conserving the monarchical system against republicanism . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I do n't feel I 'm being much use , ’ said Amiss . |
| 29 | Therefore , I decided that I had the clue to something that had long baffled me , that whereas Levis 's strict division of the world into sensuous particulars and more intellectual abstractions — I hope I 'm being fair to him , I 'm caricaturing and shortening _ whereas this was applicable to the modern period , it probably was n't to the period I decided , I think , roughly before the eighteenth century , and with this in mind I then turned to the mysterious last plays of Shakespeare that we 've been talking about earlier and tried to see whether the sense one gets in those plays of love , for example , not as simply a logical construction for talking about the way people behave in relation to each other , but as some kind of spiritual entity existing prior to the human subjects in the play , whether that sense could be in some degree confirmed and explained by an investigation of the general use of universals in the period and earlier . |
| 30 | Therefore , I decided that I had the clue to something that had long baffled me , that whereas Leavis 's strict division of the world into sensuous particulars and more intellectual abstractions — I hope I 'm being fair to him , I 'm caricaturing and shortening — whereas this was applicable to the modern period , it probably was n't to the period , I decided I think roughly before the eighteenth century . |