Example sentences of "my [noun] [verb] [pers pn] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found no great welcome ; people seemed quite oblivious of my arrival , and no doubt it was unconscious arrogance on my part to expect it to be otherwise . |
| 2 | I thought I was doing what I , and I alone , wanted to do , but my pursuit of academic superiority shows that I was still striving to be the person my parents wanted me to be . |
| 3 | My parents wanted me to be a schoolmaster , but I married into the dry-cleaning business . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm here because my husband told me to be here , Shih Bergson . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ He did n't run the team as my husband wished it to be run , ’ she said . |
| 6 | And I see it as part of my job to help them to be able to judge their own work … |
| 7 | I think perhaps my grandmother felt it to be unethical , that 's all . |
| 8 | My masters expect me to be hunting for news . ’ |
| 9 | I think my dad wanted me to be . |
| 10 | My son took it to be mended |
| 11 | I remember my mother wanting me to be a personal assistant to a managing director . |
| 12 | ‘ I now feel that I 'm getting to be somebody in my own right , and not someone my mother wanted me to be . ’ |