Example sentences of "i [being] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Am I bein' greedy ? ’ |
| 2 | Am I bein' too subtle for you ? |
| 3 | Yet , I always conclude , it might have seemed strange and unnatural to have shown too much feeling ; strange , and perhaps embarrassing and out of order , I being somewhat far down in the family hierarchy . |
| 4 | Ferdinando and I being both your servants when we sinned were like unto brother and sister and broke a commandment which was made clear to me on reading the Scriptures . |
| 5 | Am I being unduly cynical ? |
| 6 | When he came over to me I fully expected a slap on my kisser , I being the known ring-leader . |
| 7 | Are n't I being naughty , Lee ? |
| 8 | Am I being too pessimistic ? |
| 9 | Or am I being impatient ? ’ |
| 10 | At a great mass meeting at the Shwe Dagon Pagoda in January 1946 , some twenty thousand people attended to hear him speak , I being one of them . |
| 11 | Am I being defiant , Anna thought now , pushing her metal cage of bottles down the aisle towards her allotted shelves , am I simply cocking a snook at Peter ? |
| 12 | Why am I being paid back in this way ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Am I being callous ? |
| 14 | Branson stood beside Simon Draper , visibly shaking , his face set in a grim mask , ‘ I ca n't tell you , ’ he began , ‘ how sad I am that people have felt the need to have a meeting , without Simon and I being present . |
| 15 | The reliability of the developed approach was further confirmed by the fact that no protected bases were observed when an identical binding reaction was subjected to various DMS treatments in solution ( prior to electrophoresis ) , presumably due to the kinetic instability of the Jun-AP-1-binding site complex ( 7 ) which DNase I being a bulky molecule is unable to sense . |
| 16 | Or am I being sentimental ? |
| 17 | And I 'm just being hysterical , I suppose , because I 've had too many of John 's terribly strong G and Ts and it 'll all look different in the morning and I 'll come to you and say sorry and was n't I being a silly girl last night , and you can pat me on the head and say yes , was n't I ? |
| 18 | Am I being artless when I say that ? |
| 19 | Am I being a nuisance ? " |
| 20 | Kersey lit a cigarette and with a wry grin enquired : ‘ Am I being antisocial ? ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Excuse me , ’ Simone interrupted , ‘ but am I being dense ? |
| 22 | Am I being inhospitable ? ’ |
| 23 | Was it some anonymous well-wisher or was I being manipulated ? |
| 24 | Am I being completely cynical |
| 25 | Am I being completely cynical in thinking that the Government 's announcement about the great increase in public expenditure has something to do with a general election ? |
| 26 | Am I being told that the law of England is so deficient that , if one assaults a person by driving a car at them to the danger of that person 's life or property — whether or not one damages either — that is not a crime known to the common law of England , and would it not attract the most condign penalties ? |
| 27 | To — ‘ is he at all like you ? ’ — I must say — No — very categorically : setting aside personal appearances — he being stout — & good looking , — & I being ensiform , ( speaking botanically , ) that is — lanky — & considerably ugly , — we are , as far as I can judge — very opposite . |
| 28 | Because I play the game I can not stand referees at the best of times … am I being biased here ? |
| 29 | Do you know , do you know , am I being clear about that ? |
| 30 | A mutation simply consists in +1 or — I being added to the value of a randomly chosen gene . |