Example sentences of "[vb past] that i [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I last wrote to you in January I mentioned that I hoped to be relieved of the secretarial duties of the B.A.E.C. by another member who had volunteered to take these over . |
| 2 | In my third year at Oxford , however , I noticed that I seemed to be getting clumsier , and I fell over once or twice for no apparent reason . |
| 3 | At age seven I decided that I wanted to be a soldier , after I had watched a TV programme about the D-Day landings . |
| 4 | ‘ The variety of work which included anything from milk quotas to mortgage repossessions , meant that I had to be practical and adapt quickly . |
| 5 | Fortunately it became necessary for me to accompany the well-known Solveig 's Song on a dulcitone , which meant that I had to be close beside her in the wings . |
| 6 | In 1980 , coming back from a hospital in the States where I had been told that I ought to have an operation ( interestingly on my throat — it was as though all the tension caused by what I could not say was caught up there ) , I saw that I had to be free of this . |
| 7 | When I saw that I wanted to be him , or one of them , or both of them , but anyway I was just so happy to watch them together . |
| 8 | I also felt that I wanted to be apart from the routine of normal home life with the washing , cooking and to think about . |
| 9 | As soon as I set foot in there , I knew that I had to be involved somehow . |
| 10 | ‘ I knew that I had to be the best at everything if I was to haul my family out of the financial trouble they were in . |