Example sentences of "am [be] " in BNC.

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1 Now , am am I the only person to whom a lot of this is news ?
2 Oh yeah , I am am there , sorry , I was n't
3 I am are .
4 I am are n't I ?
5 ‘ Perhaps I am being selfish , ’ she writes .
6 He is also an inch or two taller than I am , Not even the most stupid policeman in the land could possibly mistake him for me in an identity parade , but I suppose I am being too optimistic in assuming that literary critics are likely to be more intelligent or perceptive than an ignorant cop .
7 ‘ 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 .
8 Now I am being besieged by offers of films in Hollywood and other areas .
9 When I am being helped into a bath of hot water , however , I draw in my breath and cry out for her : ‘ Mama !
10 ‘ I am being realistic , I want the best for all of us . ’
11 I have myself devised many staff plans over the years , and I do not believe I am being unduly boastful if I say that very few ever needed amendment .
12 But the reality is , ladies and gentlemen , I am being merciful .
13 In conversation with my French boyfriend the other day , he said , ‘ I am being quite Fred with you ’ .
14 I am being objective , not self-pitying , because quite honestly I am not much interested in men anyway .
15 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 .
16 They are enjoying themselves — I am being excluded/rejected/ abandoned/ignored .
17 Of course , I realise I am being unfair and that they were mostly awfully lonely boys far from home .
18 ‘ That is what I am being paid to find out .
19 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 .
20 I thought : I am being psychoanalysed .
21 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 .
22 Her core beliefs were ‘ I have no right to be alive ’ and , with somewhat convoluted logic , ‘ I am being forced to stay alive as a punishment for being born . ’
23 Some weeks later , discussing the arts , she admitted the English sense of humour was difficult to understand initially , and only now could she laugh at my greeting of , ‘ Help , I am being bitten by a sanitary towel ! ’
24 ‘ I am being very puzzled , my friend , ’ said the young Pakistani .
25 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 .
26 ‘ I do n't like the fact that I am being pushed out in the cold .
27 I am being stabbed .
28 Livingston , who has vowed to clear his name after British athletics chiefs banned him for four years for drugs cheating , said : ‘ I am being imprisoned for something I have n't done .
29 I am being a trifle cunning in this , as I do not want you to forget me .
30 I am being punished for being an invalid and paying my national insurance contributions for 40 years .
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