Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] i [verb] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When I got here , ’ he said expressionlessly , ‘ I realised I needed to be in love with more than just a city . |
| 2 | ‘ I found I had to be very firm with her , or she 'd have run rings around me , and how would she learn ? |
| 3 | I can remember the moment I decided I wanted to be a politician really quite well . |
| 4 | All of our group wanted to go to the 2ème Régiment Étranger de Parachutistes , and I decided I wanted to be a high-altitude free-fall parachutist . |
| 5 | I decided I wanted to be received as a Methodist . |
| 6 | ‘ I felt I wanted to be part of it . |
| 7 | So once I had passed through the obligatory outskirts of post-war , multi-storey housing estates and entered a labyrinth of blackened buildings in canyon-like streets with traffic jammed solid , I knew I had to be somewhere near the town centre . |
| 8 | ‘ I knew I had to be tolerant of any mechanical faults which were bound to surface during the year , ’ he says . |
| 9 | I think I thought I wanted to be part of that companionship too but knew it would conclude with my entry But that did n't have to happen because he was closing the kitchen door behind him as I arrived in the passage . |
| 10 | I said I wanted to be best man , I said I wanted a church wedding . |
| 11 | ‘ I thought I said I wanted to be alone . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ In my last year at school another teacher roared with laughter when I said I wanted to be a professional footballer . |
| 13 | But if I remember correctly on one of the progr on television going back sort of two three months ago , one of the firms , and I think it was an electrical firm , was working a bit of a swift one erm they were getting people to sign a document which purported I think to be erm l l loaning money , hire agreement . |
| 14 | Then they said I have to be operated because I am already ready and my name is on the list . |
| 15 | ‘ When he discovered I wanted to be an actor he felt deeply responsible and thought I must be stopped . ’ |
| 16 | What made I wanted to be a policeman ? |