Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I do n't mean I 'm bending them , but there were some , as I 've said many times , a lot of silly people refereeing in speedway , and thank goodness now , ninety nine per cent of them are being sensible and we 're seeing some good refereeing . |
| 2 | ‘ Onstage , ’ Fred reflects , ‘ he 's this outrageous lunatic camp person , but half an hour after the gig he 's back at the hotel reading Somerset Maugham and Rob and I are being disgusting to some barmaid completely off our head . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Perhaps I am being selfish , ’ she writes . |
| 4 | I am being polite about the way in which the Government have behaved when I say that they have dealt with our recommendations in a cavalier fashion . |
| 5 | I am being serious Paul ! |
| 6 | Either therefore I am being non-cooperative or I intend to convey something rather different : ( 34 ) Queen Victoria was made of iron The straightforward interpretation is that since Queen Victoria in fact lacked the definitional properties of iron , she merely had some of the incidental properties like hardness , resilience , non-flexibility or durability . |
| 7 | But the reality is , ladies and gentlemen , I am being merciful . |
| 8 | They are enjoying themselves — I am being excluded/rejected/ abandoned/ignored . |
| 9 | I do not think I am being cruel . |
| 10 | I know I am being stupid and the last thing I want to be is a possessive mother . |
| 11 | ‘ In my opinion , I am being sensible . |
| 12 | I am being objective , not self-pitying , because quite honestly I am not much interested in men anyway . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | " Oh yes , I know , " said Alice , and added , " Good-night , " and went downstairs , thinking , I am being silly . |
| 15 | ‘ I am being realistic , I want the best for all of us . ’ |
| 16 | Of course , I realise I am being unfair and that they were mostly awfully lonely boys far from home . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | To avoid this happening to me , I am being careful to describe what I saw as exactly and carefully as possible . |
| 19 | I 'm been blue sorry . |
| 20 | Why do I have to conform , to feel real only when I 'm being normal ? |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | There 's humour and tensions , the blossoming masculine friendship and those wonderful , surprising moments at which Forsyth excels ( and which , in case you think I 'm being coy , seldom translate from screen ) . |
| 23 | And perhaps ( I 'm being vain ) it was something that happened when Caroline was going on in her silly woman-of-advanced-ideas way — just a look between us . |
| 24 | " Please do n't think I 'm being inquisitive . |
| 25 | He replied : ‘ I honestly do n't , it 's not because I 'm being magnanimous . |
| 26 | I 'm being p-posted , so … ’ |
| 27 | Erm , I 'm being nosey now you 've got a box , er , horse box behind your building a blue one it 's a double wheeler horse box , i is it yours or is it for sale ? |
| 28 | ‘ I know I 'm being over-sentimental , but there it is . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | I 'm being foul at the moment . |