Example sentences of "be [pron] [verb] i [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But why are you telling me all this ? |
| 2 | ‘ Why are you telling me all this ? ’ asked Leonora , trying to move away . |
| 3 | " Are you telling me that — he wants to give me " |
| 4 | ‘ Why are you telling me this ? |
| 5 | ‘ Pinkie , are you telling me this fellow 's a bloody intellectual ? |
| 6 | ‘ Are you giving me five pence or five peas for the milk ? |
| 7 | And he says , what are you giving me that for ? |
| 8 | Are you offering me that as an option chairman ? |
| 9 | ‘ Why are you offering me this ? ’ |
| 10 | Why are you asking me all these questions ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ So , why are you asking me these questions , and why should I answer them ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Why are you asking me this ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Why are you showing me these documents ? ’ he asked when he had finished reading them and passed them to me . |
| 14 | ‘ Guy , why are you showing me this place ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Were you watching me asleep ? ’ he asked . |
| 16 | I got all these things early cos when I was at granny and grandpa 's they gave me some money . |
| 17 | I reckon that 's what made me ill , it 's your fault . |
| 18 | ‘ That 's what kept me awake last night — facing up to the fact that my behaviour , anyway as far as you were concerned , was as devious and manipulative as anything that William Ash could come up with . |
| 19 | That 's what worries me most ! |
| 20 | and that 's what makes me evil , that 's why I say I 'd moved heaven and earth for someone who 's nice |
| 21 | That 's what makes me sick : you laughing and chatting with Stok while our boy was sitting there petrified . ’ |
| 22 | The pretence that this is not so is what makes me sick , he wrote , when I look at the works of the past . |
| 23 | Why was she telling me this ? |
| 24 | That was what upset me last week . |