Example sentences of "[conj] i be [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But where I am is in something of a dilemma , because if we do n't recruit anybody now it seems to me unlikely that we will actually manage to reduce our times , that would in tern would mean we 'd actually want more staff next year erm , so I have set out a series of options . |
| 2 | My beer was to be in a posh hotel where I was being treated for my birthday , and after the heaven of getting out of a T-shirt that was generating its own new species of life in the arm pits , and into a hot bath , I looked forward to discussing the day eagerly with my companion . |
| 3 | ‘ It was several months before the truth finally dawned on me that although I was being entirely faithful to her she had no inhibitions about sleeping with other men for kicks . ’ |
| 4 | Or if someone says What are you doing ? we can just answer Eating a mango instead of I am eating a mango because we know that I am is understood and does not have to be said . |
| 5 | All that I have , and all that I am is now yours , I invest it in you , it is yours . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't like the fact that I am being pushed out in the cold . |
| 11 | I believe that I am being asked a question on my meeting yesterday with the UKIAS executive council , and I have no doubt that other hon. Members have tabled questions . |
| 12 | Can I can I just raise a question er to r to clarify the point before I answer your question that I are am I are we to assume that in response to Mr , erm it 's on the record that there 's a er a request to add , clear expression of local preference I by local planning authorities ? |
| 13 | If I stick up for myself he either ignores me or suggests that I 'm being impertinent and that I risk losing my job by being out-spoken . |
| 14 | I know that I 'm being unfair to you and to Virginia , but what I feel for you — what I have always felt for you — has made a weakling of me . " |
| 15 | I want to hope that I 'm being melodramatic and everything will settle back to the way it used to be , before all this ghastliness , but I doubt it . |
| 16 | I was up there three days campaigning , objecting to this that I 'm being charged and believe me for those three days I stood right in Queen Street , just outside the offices there , and at no , any time during , at any particular time of day , you could have come along to me , and there were still one thousand five hundred people standing there , rain , hail , sleet or blow . |
| 17 | Huge issue th th the Scottish Opera and the cultural organizations do n't , do n't think that I 'm being very left-wing when I made my points Peter . |
| 18 | Well I 'm saying I still do n't know , the figures that I 'm being given suggest that by Friday , erm or by Monday , we 'll have sufficient to meet the orders of . |
| 19 | Not that I 'm being nasty |
| 20 | You see this is the thing that worries me because , you know , when I stand up and say I like what John Dreyfus did and I think his looks very good and I maintain the traditions of the Oxford University Press , I can suddenly feel that I 'm being typecast as being in the English tradition of typography as a revered art and the Morrisonian thing and the whole thing separate from , you know , a culture within a culture and a separate thing . |
| 21 | Touch wood , that attitude has continued now that I 'm being more positive and less of a wimp . |
| 22 | It was n't that I was being purposely unfriendly , it was just that I had decided that my best chance of survival lay in my being as unobtrusive as possible . |
| 23 | Not being paid was n't a problem ; what was however was that I was being used for the donkey work without any consultation on the artistic side of it , And that was important to me . |
| 24 | Angie Bowie : ‘ I never realized and had never been involved in who did what , but I suppose that amounts to , if one wants to look at it from Ken 's point of view , being the fly in the ointment , or of one wants to look at it from a real point of view as , in terms of property settlement and management , that I was being David 's manager at that particular time , because it was possible for me to advise him to do something about the things that really troubled him artistically . |
| 25 | I felt that I was being turned inside out . |
| 26 | I thought that I was being stupid , so I gave it up . |
| 27 | I felt as if my soul was filling with honey and manna and that I was being brought to a mystic feast . |
| 28 | I felt that I was being used as training fodder for this black policeman . |
| 29 | I helped myself to some of the raw still-warm liver he was offering , realizing that I was being especially honoured as a guest . |
| 30 | I asked to see a breakdown of the price quoted to me and found that I was being charged four times more than the normal retail price for curtain tape and hooks and was quoted for more material than I needed . |