Example sentences of "i [verb] to [be] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My dear fellow , it is but seldom that one has the pleasure of meeting a friend from the old days in Petersburg , but I chanced to be in Vienna recently , and have heard much about you from mutual acquaintances . |
| 2 | Dad said , and it must have cost him a lot to say so little after he 'd been put down by me , ‘ I 've decided I want to be with Eva . ’ |
| 3 | THE LOVELY Karen Grant tells her porcine pa , Bobby , ‘ I want to be like Julie Burchill and write for the NME . ’ |
| 4 | I want to be in Brussels today … ’ |
| 5 | I think that until I drop I will clean wherever I happen to be on Saturday morning . |
| 6 | ‘ I happened to be in Annabel 's nightclub last year when a path was opened for Fergie and a man yelled ‘ hi ’ to me and introduced her highness saying ‘ Hey Tak , bow to the Duchess of York and say hello . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I happened to be in London on business when my second-in-command rang to let me know the news . |
| 8 | I happened to be in Berthing again — cousin of mine lives there . |
| 9 | Peter 's pretty nice , but to tell the truth I like to be with Marie on my own best . |
| 10 | I managed to be in Galerie des Glaces ( which really is one of the wonders of the western world ) just before closing time , entirely alone with the evening sun slanting through its tall arched windows . |
| 11 | The first tournament I went to was at Tucson , Arizona , and I became what they call a ‘ parking-lot caddie ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ Oh yes — I told Alison I could n't come , I had to be with Marcus . ’ |
| 13 | I had never met her American , but of course with my prejudices I had to be on Henry 's side , and I was therefore not much help to her . |
| 14 | ‘ On the Friday night I had stayed up to watch the late film , and at 3.30am I decided that it was n't worthwhile going to bed as I had to be at John 's house at seven o'clock . |
| 15 | I had to be in Nassau anyway , so I thought I 'd look you up . |
| 16 | The dread excitement of D-Day came , and I longed to be at Bletchley where I felt I had had a rôle . |
| 17 | I have to be at Alyn Ainsworth 's house tomorrow morning to sort keys for next week 's appearance on ‘ Live from the Palladium ’ . |
| 18 | ‘ I have to be in Rome for six weeks . |
| 19 | ‘ I have to be in London on Monday anyway . |
| 20 | As I have to be in London for the entire week of the General Election , I applied to Darlington Town Hall for a postal vote . |
| 21 | I wanted to be on Anglesey because my son was at school by then you see in . |
| 22 | I wanted to be in Beirut for the anniversary , to be near John , but the trip seemed too daunting , too frightening . |
| 23 | Initially I wanted to be in Kabul should there be an offensive , then reality began setting in and I could see that they were n't going to take a village , let alone a capital . ’ |
| 24 | I wanted to be like Sonia Lannaman . |