Example sentences of "i am [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh yeah , I am am there , sorry , I was n't |
| 2 | I am are . |
| 3 | I am are n't I ? |
| 4 | A further great grievance that exists in this force in the Division where I am is that the Section Sergeant dare not enter any Station while he is on duty unless he signs the main station book ; yet the plain clothes P.C.s and Detective Constables , and even uniform P.C.s can go into the Station as often as they think and there is no order that any of them must sign in and out . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | er , well I 'm , I 'm a waitress and erm when I 'm working I consider the restaurant my stage and I have to be somebody else because I 'm worried that you know who I am is n't good enough to entertain these people . |
| 7 | Erm , for instance , suppose that I think that one of the things that er makes me who I am is erm that I have a good head for numbers . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | All that I have , and all that I am is now yours , I invest it in you , it is yours . |
| 10 | ‘ Perhaps I am being selfish , ’ she writes . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | Now I am being besieged by offers of films in Hollywood and other areas . |
| 14 | When I am being helped into a bath of hot water , however , I draw in my breath and cry out for her : ‘ Mama ! |
| 15 | ‘ I am being realistic , I want the best for all of us . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | But the reality is , ladies and gentlemen , I am being merciful . |
| 18 | In conversation with my French boyfriend the other day , he said , ‘ I am being quite Fred with you ’ . |
| 19 | I am being objective , not self-pitying , because quite honestly I am not much interested in men anyway . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | They are enjoying themselves — I am being excluded/rejected/ abandoned/ignored . |
| 22 | Of course , I realise I am being unfair and that they were mostly awfully lonely boys far from home . |
| 23 | ‘ That is what I am being paid to find out . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | I thought : I am being psychoanalysed . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . ’ |
| 28 | 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 ! ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I am being very puzzled , my friend , ’ said the young Pakistani . |
| 30 | 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 . |