Example sentences of "[noun sg] i be [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said to go shopping the next day in case I was being watched . |
| 2 | Of course I 'm being most unfair , but that 's a reader 's prerogative . |
| 3 | He sighed , intimating what a bore I was being . |
| 4 | By nine that same evening I was being begged to go and get them ! |
| 5 | Last night , Thomas said : ‘ One minute I was being talked of as a Pounds 3 million player , the next I was in Crystal Palace 's reserves . |
| 6 | As soon as I 'd closed , sorry , slammed the door , I realized what a prize idiot I was being , so I returned ‘ toot sweet ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ And , if that was n't enough , even while I 'm realising what an idiot I 'm being to grow so infuriated that you and Lubor Ondrus appear to be in each other 's pockets , you , who have no fear whatsoever of my dog — indeed have that day taken him walking — now seem to be taking him over too ! |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | If I have n't the slightest idea what the hell I 'm being nagged about , how the hell can I possibly do anything about it ? |
| 10 | that 's the perfect time and I had this sort of doubt in my mind erm then I was fortunate I learnt a co a very good scripted presentation for getting referred leads and once I started to actually ask , cos that 's all it comes down to , erm then I was getting three , four , in the end I was being quite clever and saying look if you just restrict them to three then I 'll give them the same good service I reckon I 've given you this service |
| 11 | At the exalted level of Olympic competition that might be true , although I find it hard to attribute the concept of ‘ needing ’ to Carl Lewis , who , and no doubt I am being unfair , always looks to me like the lead actor in a Disney film entitled The Fastest Kid on Earth . |
| 12 | I stopped eating , wondering what new surprise I was being presented with . |
| 13 | ‘ It is not Sidacai 's death I am being asked for , but his life , ’ he said . |
| 14 | All the time I am being repeatedly cloned as copies of myself multiply to pursue their separate lives in the many worlds into which my world is continually splitting . |
| 15 | I do n't recall , well in fact I 'm being sarcastic because I know for a , we know that it was n't in the manifesto for nineteen ninety two . |