Example sentences of "i have [adv] [verb] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd just wanted to be somewhere where people knew what they were doing . |
| 2 | I 'd always wanted to be famous . |
| 3 | I 'd always wanted to be a comedian at school , I 've always been obsessive about comedy , and if I 'd been rubbish it would have been a bit problematic . ’ |
| 4 | I 'd always wanted to be famous . |
| 5 | What intrigued me was their mutual indifference to an activity I 'd always imagined to be both intimate and passionate . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'd kinda hoped to be alone here tonight . |
| 7 | I 'd only wanted to be alone ! |
| 8 | All I could do was to mumble that I regretted not taking my degree , and , though I could see it was irritating of me to whine , to feel stale and bored was not such a trivial thing ; that though we might have the vote now , meals still had to be prepared and children looked after and since this kind of drudgery was despised by society as not being ‘ real work ’ , we were in the hideous position of being both exhausted and imprisoned by it and also looked down on for doing it ; that I had honestly tried to be the sort of wife Richard wanted — and the sort of wife I felt I ought to be — but it was like being in a kind of airless cell and I could only see Richard as a jailer ; that I saw myself becoming progressively more and more incapable of doing anything , not just mentally , but from some kind of paralysis of will . |
| 9 | When all the time I had actually been with him I had always realized he was the type to make a pass at the nearest girl with his last gasp , and I had just happened to be that girl . |
| 10 | ‘ I must say , ’ answered the pregnant girl , ‘ that I had never expected to be as tired by anything as I was during those awful nights in the Blitz when sleep seemed something one would never have again — but this is worse ! ’ |
| 11 | It was good to see references at last to what I had always understood to be the correct meaning of hostage ( April 27th ) — that is , ‘ a person given to another as a pledge ’ ( Oxford dictionary ) . |
| 12 | I had bought her for a song , then spent a fortune restoring her and , when my term of service expired and I could afford to become the gypsy-sailor I had always wanted to be , I left the Marines and made Masquerade my new home . |
| 13 | From the age of seven I had always wanted to be a missionary and I well remember my mother returning from a missionary meeting in the village to hear me say that was what I hoped one day to be . |
| 14 | Before I went to Miss Havisham 's and met Estella , I had always wanted to be apprenticed to Joe , and I had always been happy at home , in spite of my sister 's scolding . |
| 15 | Then your mother went on about how I had always wanted to be buried at sea . ’ |
| 16 | So no bug-eyed monsters which I had always thought to be the cheapest form of science fiction . |
| 17 | ‘ As I have just explained to Mr Leland , I returned to my hotel from a dinner engagement and discovered the flowers I had earlier ordered to be delivered here for Nurse Dungarvan and Nurse Yates had , by some misdirection , been left at my hotel . |
| 18 | I 've also got to be careful because they 've got size eights upstairs as well that Robert got them |
| 19 | ‘ Anyway , I 've obviously got to be here if you 're going to be leading the good life , since I 'm a major component of it . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Well , that 's all right , since you 're the only man I 've ever wanted to be possessed by . |
| 21 | That 's a point , erm first person I 've ever known to be bored with last night at the . |
| 22 | And I 've always liked to be ready for surprises , especially the lethal sort . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've always wanted to be mysterious and a little bit sinister and have girls swoon when they see me . ’ |
| 24 | I 've always wanted to be like him . |
| 25 | I 'VE ALWAYS WANTED TO BE THE SORT OF WOMAN WHO DROVE MEN WILD . |
| 26 | I 've always wanted to be involved in things that tried to somehow create a women 's network . |
| 27 | I 've always wanted to be a frilly bloomer ! |
| 28 | I 've sa I 've always wanted to be a barrister |
| 29 | I 've always tried to be truthful to you , Frances . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I 've always tried to be an understanding parent , ’ she continued . |