Example sentences of "be i [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Am I to base my ethical values on the warmth and nature of my social relations ?
2 But why am I telling you all this ?
3 Why am I telling you this ?
4 Am I to take it that is the general male philosophy , that shrug-it-all-off attitude ? ’
5 Now , am I to take it that sort of appeal will have a very low priority , I mean , how about Oxfam for example ?
6 ‘ And how am I to explain my abrupt disappearance to my host ? she asked tersely .
7 Am I doing something wrong ?
8 Why am I doing them all ? ’
9 Am I doing them any harm ?
10 What do I hope will happen ? " and " Why am I doing it this way ? "
11 Now , what you 've got to do , the one thing you really have got to do is to , is is to start being critical of yourselves and well look , am I doing anything wrong here ?
12 Am I making myself transparent ?
13 Am I making you nervous ?
14 Oh yes , oh yes , oh mum went there for years and years every Saturday yeah , and as I say the wagonettes used to erm be stationed up by Albion Street , to take er shopping and , and er and Rushbrooks used to be the big confectioners then , that 's on the , it used to be on the corner of erm Albion , well there 's a market there , an indoor market now is n't there yeah they were the er the big confectioners Rushbrooks , and er bakers and confectioners and er all the barrels of flour used to be , you could see all that going in you know but er I do n't know whether it is , am I making it interesting , is it interesting for you ?
15 There you are I got it right for
16 But were I marking his inaugural effort for its calm sobriety , I fear my assessment would be beta minus .
17 One of the more memorable song titles from his film is I Like Them Big and Stupid .
18 It would seem that erm i it was n't in the interests of one 's ultimate reproductive success to be too easily satisfied too much of the time because remember , it 's a question of relative reproductive success an and the individual that gets that little extra is is effectively gon na be , gon na be the one selected , so yes I would think that erm it 's probably naive to think that natural selection would , would make you feel er satisfied and content all the time it would probably induce erm a state of mild chronic discontent which is I think what most people actually experience in life
19 cos it 's I mean my two I 've always been very
20 until they left home , first of all it was I break his bloody neck taking advantage of my daughter , cos they each lived with their
21 They must be independent , not mention in the will you ca n't have a beneficiary who 's a witness , you ca n't have a husband or wife of a beneficiary as a witness either because not I 'm told very first clause there are n't , to get a duplicate made bungalow or something like that he might be missing out on the bungalow and the was The course leader at the time told me the story that saw him and he would n't tell me who it was I want my ten percent commission .
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