Example sentences of "[pron] i [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone I spoke to was against the widening of the roads especially the steep pass down into Kinlochewe . |
| 2 | One family gave me a day off every month , told me I had to be back before nine in the evening and checked my bag when I left to see if I had n't robbed anything . |
| 3 | ‘ People in football will understand — Lennie Lawrence told me I needed to be superhuman to perform in that atmosphere . |
| 4 | I shall single out those writers whom I take to be the most significant among contemporary anti-individualist social scientists ; I shall examine in some detail the nature of the assumptions embedded in their practice ; and I shall seek to assess the coherence of the social explanations those assumptions lead them to produce . |
| 5 | For example , at the next table at the Exmoor Forest Hotel , he had overheard two people talking to each other , a ‘ very well bred looking old man with a dry peevish voice whom I took to be mentally deranged and a woman who was either his daughter or his nurse ’ . |
| 6 | Some gentlemen dressed in grey whom I took to be equerries had organized us so that the royal party had two corridors , flanked by people , to walk down . |
| 7 | I began to reckon up the people whom I knew to be prisoners . |
| 8 | Why else should I still be yearning after a man whom I knew to be a murderer while shrinking from the innocent Syl whose only crime was that I found him unattractive ? |
| 9 | I made use of their terror for my own amusement , and raising my voice still more , I shouted at him whom I assumed to be present , lying invisible in some corner … |
| 10 | But to say that I have had an experience of God , whom I claim to be a transcendent being outside myself , can not be self-authenticating . |
| 11 | ‘ So my first thought was of a time-space machine ( thanks to H. G. Wells ) in which contemporary characters ( one of whom I wanted to be a 12–13 year old ) would be able to travel forward and backward in time , and inward and outward in space . |
| 12 | You 're the only person mixed up in this business whom I believe to be on the level . |
| 13 | " I am capable of liking only those whom I consider to be my equals . " |
| 14 | It 's just that that just how I I had to be . |
| 15 | Well I I prefer to be employed right rather than |
| 16 | Well can we get this sor stuff sorted then , because this is gon na go on forever , because I I think to be quite honest it is a lack of communication between two parties |
| 17 | Thank you Mr Mayor , erm I I want to be very brief Mr Mayor , that the debate on houses and rent increases has taken place and has been well aired over recent weeks and I do n't have any intention tonight of re-debating those issues . |
| 18 | President , I I happen to be going on Saturday to the National Final of the Rotary Young Inventor of the Years ' er convention this |
| 19 | Well , I I need to be sure on this . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I may have seen many Garter Snakes on sale which I took to be pattern variations on the species most commonly available . |
| 22 | A soft pattering followed which I took to be matches falling around the receiver . |
| 23 | A woman was driving and she parked beside our land-cruiser , nodding to us briefly as she stepped out onto the road and flung a series of questions at the Indian , half in Spanish and half in a more guttural tongue , which I took to be Quechua . |
| 24 | There were dots in some of the distant fields which I assumed to be sheep . |
| 25 | However , I would also like to remind him that I wrote in response to a report which I assumed to be factual . |
| 26 | As I flew the approach I observed quite a tall tree on the threshold , which I assumed to be the obstruction . |
| 27 | And the remaining difference which I estimate to be one thousand five hundred , is really the I think is the difference in the treatment of students . |
| 28 | The distortion on the unit , which I expected to be awful , is actually very good , although I do n't think it quite lives up to Ibanez 's claim that the unit could serve as a preamp , when linked to an amplifier . |
| 29 | Thus was I punished for wanting to go to these places , which I knew to be prisons for God . |
| 30 | I wanted to choose for myself , yes , but I also wanted to escape into a world of certainties , which I knew to be unreal while desperately wanting to believe that it might have some reality . |