Example sentences of "be [pron] [verb] i [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
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| 1 | ‘ Are you serving me food , or am I interrupting some kind of talent contest ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Why are you calling me Hummingbird , not Hummy ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Are you telling me Billy was here Sunday night , and it had something to do with animals . |
| 4 | If I fall , Isabel thought suddenly , I am alone in the house , there will be nobody to hear me cry out , Kathleen will be delayed , she wanders around the shops , gossiping everywhere . |
| 5 | Why is she calling me darling ? thought Henry . |
| 6 | What is there to help me make sense of things ? |
| 7 | Let him take his chauffeur 's cap off very slowly and say softly to me , ‘ oh sir , I do n't never want to work for anyone else , never ’ ; let him kneel by the side of the great bed , in the moonlight , and let him lean over to kiss me gently on the lips and to run his leather-gloved hand tenderly across my cheek , across my lips , through my hair , saying all the time , ‘ oh sir , I 'm here sir , I 'm right here , I 'm right here by the bed ; was you calling me sir , did you call me ? ’ |