Example sentences of "[subord] i [verb] [prep] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't want him to worry , so I try to be bright and keep going . ’ |
| 2 | If the race had been over 62 metres then I felt I would have won , but there are no championships at this distance so I had to be content with second place . |
| 3 | " So I pretended to be ill and went to bed . |
| 4 | After having amassed around 200 hours on the Corsair since purchasing it in 1982 , the novelty of flying this beast has not diminished : ‘ Today I feel that every flight in the Corsair is as exciting as the first , mainly because with the Corsair you can not afford to be complacent , as the aircraft will sometimes bite back , so I have to be alert all the time while I am flying ’ . |
| 5 | Q What do I do if I wish to be excused attendance at School ? |
| 6 | Something which , if I lived to be two hundred years old then went and announced it at St Paul 's Cross , would rock the very throne of England and scandalise the courts of Europe ! |
| 7 | If I wished to be cruel about the discussion this far , I would suggest that it has the evasive character of much comparative writing . |
| 8 | I 'd go mad if I had to be tidy as well as everything else . |
| 9 | If I wanted to be pretentious , I might call this paper an investigation of the sociology of literature . |
| 10 | If I wanted to be happy I should have avoided the pub altogether , or at least had nothing stronger than mineral water . |
| 11 | Before I could say , ‘ You bastards ’ , they were specks in the mist as I huddled from the blizzard behind a boulder wondering if I wanted to be sick yet . |
| 12 | It 's as if we 're taking responsibility for men 's problem , but if I want to be safe , I feel I have to . |
| 13 | He even added a comment : ‘ This was written by Eled in an attempt to spoil the Book , but it will remain if I live to be 100 . ’ |
| 14 | If I live to be 110 , I shall doubtless feel no more alien than anybody else in the prevailing subtopia because nobody will be working out-of-doors . |
| 15 | If I live to be one thousand years of age , I ( and no other man ) will never really fathom the female psyche . |
| 16 | if I happen to be awake at that time , then yes , but , if I do n't have |
| 17 | Well it was a town then but since then it 's been made a city , you see , and I got to know all kinds of people and one gentleman came in there , used to come every evening and write a book and er , I used to look after him if I happened to be that end and er , you see , and then he 'd say , oh just an exchange you know about the weather and just in general thing and then I 'd leave him and he 'd get on with his writing and one day he said to me . |
| 18 | ‘ The best of it was that the farmer — Mr Harris — said that if I proved to be right , he 'd call me in again , especially as Mr Jarvis had said that my fees were moderate . |
| 19 | Live and let live I say , but unless I want to be certain of constantly bumping into parties of rambling Rotarians , I think I will keep off these organised highways . |
| 20 | Erm , I 'm just looking for some with lycra because I like to be able to afford a bit more . |
| 21 | ‘ I come over here because I like to be alone , ’ Charity said firmly . |
| 22 | Because I happened to be fluent in French , I was promoted 11 months later to loan officer and assigned to the French-speaking Arab countries of North Africa , where I made my first international calls . |
| 23 | ‘ I do wish everyone would stop writing me off just because I happen to be fifty . ’ |
| 24 | However , if I am a regular customer and the stall owner gives me credit because I happen to be short of cash , I do have an obligation to come back . |
| 25 | But I considered myself to be unattractive , and in becoming so thin as to render myself totally undesirable sexually , I was saying , ‘ I may be unattractive , but this is because I choose to be this way . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Because I want to be alone . ’ |
| 27 | I entirely reject it because I want to be able to help my constituents to achieve their natural and legitimate aspirations . |
| 28 | ‘ The album is just like one leaf on the tree , and that 's why I waited two years to do the next one , because I wanted to be sure that my playing had something new to offer . |
| 29 | I did n't go because I wanted to be rich . |
| 30 | ‘ I did n't want something too fussy , ’ said Fiona , ‘ both because it 's my second time around and because I wanted to be able to wear the dress again ! ’ |