Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] to [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The animals within them are therefore extremely vulnerable , mainly because the populations within them tend to be too small for safety . |
| 2 | Everyone has to be neatly packaged into defined groups . |
| 3 | The control exercised by ORDEN is terrifying and everyone has to be extremely careful . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | Oh , yes , I mean to be there . |
| 7 | but I mean , but like I said , I said , I mean , I went , I went to the like I changed then , I mean to be quite honest I did n't like it , I did n't like it |
| 8 | I promised to be in a certain place by this time tomorrow , and I intend to be there . |
| 9 | I got to be more grown up if I 'm going to look after a pet . |
| 10 | I got to be more careful and watch where I 'm walking . |
| 11 | I tend to be rather disorganised when packing gear , so anything that helps me keep things in the right place has got to be a bonus . |
| 12 | t needed to exert my authority over my cancer cells , but did I need to be quite so warlike ? |
| 13 | When her father died , I tried to be there for her . |
| 14 | I tried to be as patient as I could and I think David 's mother has realised for quite a long time that I was quite a good daughter-in-law to her ( although I was n't a daughter-in-law at that time ) but as a girl friend , I could understand her finding it obnoxious that her son brought some strange person into the house . |
| 15 | Everything went on as normal and I tried to be as pleasant as I could and as loving towards Anne as I had always been , but she must have noticed that a part of me was absent : simply somewhere else . |
| 16 | I tried to be as quiet as possible . ’ |
| 17 | mm I expect to be here |
| 18 | I expect to be there for 2 years . |
| 19 | In the first instance , her comment that ‘ ethnic and sexual minorities were pandered to ’ I found to be blatantly racist and most offensive . |
| 20 | Any tasks not completed by the due date on the ‘ to do list ’ can be automatically carried over to the reminders list , a facility I found to be very useful . |
| 21 | Any tasks not completed by the due date on the ‘ to do list ’ can be automatically carried over to the reminders list , a facility I found to be very useful . |
| 22 | Smith had a reputation for being devious and unreliable , which I found to be far from true . |
| 23 | Through George Wigg I became reasonably close to Richard Crossman who consulted me on a number of occasions — I have already described the Spectator libel case — but who , I must confess , turned out to be a disappointment to me , since the reputation he had earned for more than occasional unreliability I found to be entirely justified . |
| 24 | A lower compartment with a curved zipper offers easy and quick access to things like waterproofs or extra sweaters , and the main bag itself has a zip-out divider , which I found to be quite useful . |
| 25 | I pretended to be very foreign , ashamed to hear my country so misrepresented by an Englishman . |
| 26 | I pretended to be as puzzled as everyone else was about the nature of my ‘ mysterious illness ’ . |
| 27 | I pretended to be still unconscious . ’ |
| 28 | Not that I have to make the same choices as someone I acknowledge to be more discriminating , since my differently constituted palate may react differently , but my own choice will be better informed if I heed nuances which I would have missed if he had not pointed them out . |
| 29 | On the training ground I want to be just another player . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ It 's not that I want to be away from here , ’ Eve said earnestly . |