Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] i [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was about fourteen and , I just knew I had to be a musician . |
| 2 | ‘ At the time I had no real plans but just knew I wanted to be in a group . |
| 3 | I always knew I wanted to be a performer , and a performer gets to do whatever they want , so I started practising early . |
| 4 | ‘ It was all sad paranoia , completely in my own head , ’ he continues , ‘ but I really thought I had to be somebody different . |
| 5 | I was 5′ 10½&in in height in bare feet and weighed soaking wet no more than 12½ stone and since I played in the park , usually at open side wing forward , and since I played against genuinely big men , it therefore followed I had to be galvanically quick . |