Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In terms of a planning process Anne was talking about , you 'll have to forgive me for being relatively new to Oxfordshire and coming from an area where we had a planning system which was largely the one I was describing , and the planning role that I saw I wanted to develop was very much already mentioned which was actually going round to small groups of people , to the local caring groups on a much more informal basis , and getting their contribution about that and then feeding it back into the system , which you say is there in a sense . |
| 2 | Hard experience has taught me to be selective in my procrastination . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's always been that — I 've known it all my life — you 've never forgiven me for being a girl — that 's why you love Bri and you do n't love me — you wanted a boy — you always wanted a boy and all you got was a girl — all you got was me ! ’ |
| 4 | She 's forgiven me for being such an ass with my ultimatum the other day , ’ he added , then sighed , ‘ I do wish she was coming back to her flat . ’ |
| 5 | Thou twittest me with being a knave and a traitor , but then thou hast a lying tongue … |
| 6 | Telling their own story from childhood to an interviewer is for most people an intimate experience which encourages them to be remarkably open about themselves . |
| 7 | In the Middle Ages , when the French adjudged them to be alien , difficult and heathen , they were held to have descended from Scotsmen transported to Spain by Julius Caesar . |
| 8 | ‘ Do you want me to be married ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Perhaps it 'll make Daddy want me to be one too , ’ she added hopefully . |
| 10 | You can be Prince Philip — who do you want me to be ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Do you want me to be nice or honest ? ’ |
| 12 | So then Berndt and the old witch will know I 'm as smart as they do n't want me to be , AND that I 've been poking around in high-security files . |
| 13 | The police did n't want me to be sentenced , which I was stunned about . |
| 14 | Do you honestly want me to be your wife ? ’ |
| 15 | I had assumed he would still want me to be his wife , and wondered why he did not ask me . |
| 16 | Do you want me to be struck off ? |
| 17 | Then what did you want me to be ? |
| 18 | ‘ You did n't want me to be hurt ? |
| 19 | My mother will want me to be more altruistic to hers , than my father will . |
| 20 | My father will want me to be more altruistic to his relatives , than my mother will . |
| 21 | ‘ You would n't want me to be vain . |
| 22 | Silas would not want me to be in a room where somebody such as yourself could have an ear pressed to the wall . |
| 23 | I knew he would n't want me to be pushy and , hard though it was , I decided to wait until the end of the week and then invite him round for dinner . |
| 24 | You do want me to be precise about what I tell you ? ’ |
| 25 | Well do you want me to be at that meeting then ? |
| 26 | ‘ Why did you want me to be at a disadvantage ? ’ she demanded . |
| 27 | daddy I got them , where do you want me to be . |
| 28 | ‘ They expected me to be a lawyer too . |
| 29 | What I discovered at this point , was that they , my Thai co-workers , also expected me to be the teacher for this newly organised project ! |
| 30 | She expected them to be ready , mounted , properly turned out and willing . |