Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] to be " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ It 'll make me want to be a Brownie even more ! ’ |
2 | ‘ These are the songs I grew up listening to , ’ she says , ‘ they are the songs that made me want to be a singer . ’ |
3 | He taught me the fundamentals of the job … unsparingly … he channelled my discontent and made me want to be an actor . |
4 | M. It makes me want to be sick . |
5 | It was easy for me to pretend to be in love with the Princess . |
6 | I do n't even like you ; you 're virtually blackmailing me to work for you , and now you want me to pretend to be your girlfriend ? ’ |
7 | He said he needed me to pretend to be his girlfriend to protect him from the bimbos . ’ |
8 | The animals within them are therefore extremely vulnerable , mainly because the populations within them tend to be too small for safety . |
9 | Both pulls are strong and theories which purport to reconcile them tend to be fragile , even though they capture a stout commonsense conviction that , as Marx put it , ‘ Men make their own history but they do not make it just as they please ; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves . ’ |
10 | One of the first was the Camattini family , who left La Spezia , the great port and naval base on the Ligurian Sea which everyone expected to be bombarded by the British Fleet . |
11 | And the ultimate development in disposable packaging was the TV dinner , the domestic version of the airline dinner , bought complete with disposable tray , containers , cups and utensils , all of them made to be thrown away . |
12 | Thank God no more by me needs to be said . |
13 | Additionally , most published publication counts refer to active practitioners , rather than to Ph D students , many of whom cease to be active in the subject field of their training . |
14 | Additionally , most published publication counts refer to active practitioners , rather than to Ph D students , many of whom cease to be active in the subject field of their training . |
15 | Plainly not everyone has to be subject to chronic disease . |
16 | Not only are there competing social sciences , but everyone has to be something of a social scientist just to get by in this world . |
17 | Everyone has to be neatly packaged into defined groups . |
18 | The control exercised by ORDEN is terrifying and everyone has to be extremely careful . |
19 | " Everyone has to be that . " |
20 | He must n't be expected to make an effort when he does n't feel like it , he must n't risk being hemmed in or bored , but everyone has to be ever so careful of his feelings , poor sensitive soul , and when he wants a good fuck he comes to obliging loving little Ruth because he can relieve himself and have his morale boosted without having to do a damned thing about it but get himself into your bed . ’ |
21 | ‘ To achieve the objectives we have , everyone has to be very clear about the nature of the business and the nature of the challenge we are facing and what their role is in responding to it . |
22 | This I now of course understand , that everyone has to be careful of any drug smugglers . |
23 | Mersey Regional Ambulance spokesman Richard Oswick said : ‘ Everyone has to be aware that the dark nights are drawing in and we all need to take special care . ’ |
24 | No everyone has to be in |
25 | Exactly the same is true of ageism and everyone needs to be alert to their often unconscious ageist attitudes . |
26 | Everyone needs to be able to integrate work with personal life . |
27 | And everyone needs to be consulted . |
28 | ‘ Everyone needs to be loved , ’ she returned quietly . |
29 | Generally speaking , people in this room are sitting around relaxing ; they are n't bustling about generating their own heat so the atmosphere around them needs to be kept at a comfortable temperature . |
30 | Is n't it because women are by nature inferior , and know it , so usually there is no need for them to crave to be treated as inferior ? |