Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] to be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This facet of the culture is perhaps the reason why the British administrative and academic élites have obliquely indicated to the police that they do not consider them fit to be allowed to take charge of police research . |
| 2 | Can I ask you about er the medium range surface to air missile because er , you wo n't be surprised to learn , that er the committee 's received a number of submissions on this matter er which suggest that er er t to proceed with Eurofighter two thousand without the medium range surface to air missile er I mean to be put rather bluntly to us , that it makes little sense to proceed with the aircraft without a replacement for blood hound . |
| 3 | I intend to be gone when he does . |
| 4 | I confirm that this is the name by which I intend to be known in all my professional practices as a lawyer . |
| 5 | ‘ I hate to be bossed , ’ she muttered mutinously . |
| 6 | Unless it is an easy switch-on or switch-off I tend to be lost . |
| 7 | ‘ She 's a real feisty northern woman and that was nice for me because although I 've done a lot of different work , because of my television work , I tend to be thought of as the rather middle-class , bouncy , girl next door type . |
| 8 | While I was thinking how to respond , she said , ‘ Oh , how I long to be gathered ’ ( a Scottish euphemism for death ) . |
| 9 | This is the tour party I expect to be named this morning : Gooch ( captain ) , Stewart ( vice-captain ) , Smith , Atherton , Fairbrother , Gatting , Hick , Reeve , Russell , Emburey , Tufnell , Lewis , DeFreitas , Malcolm , Cork , Jarvis . |
| 10 | ‘ However , that depends how the Irish Hockey Union view the situation and I expect to be asked a few questions . |
| 11 | I intended to resign at the A.G.M. due to the fact that I expect to be leaving the London area before the next A.G.M. but since no-one else wanted the job I agreed to remain chairman for as long as I could . |
| 12 | Due to the publication schedule of ‘ Contact ’ I am actually writing this before the AGM , so I ca n't say anything more about it except that I intend to resign at it , due to the fact that I expect to be leaving the London area , so this will be the last time you will hear about London Branch from me . |
| 13 | Normally I expect to be addressed with a polite ‘ Bonjour ’ . |
| 14 | And I think the novel is dead on and I expect to be slaughtered for it ! |
| 15 | And I expect to be paid . ’ |
| 16 | I want to be drunk too , so I do n't feel so sober and hated . |
| 17 | But when I wrote to him it did n't work out ; he was much too polite and too adoring I do n't want to be adored , I want to be used and abused , I want to be treated with contempt . |
| 18 | ‘ The last thing I want to be seen as is a feminist agitator . |
| 19 | I want to be consulted , listened to , argued with . |
| 20 | I it is not envisaged I mean I must n't mislead you at all I want I want to be understood on this issue . |
| 21 | ‘ , ‘ I 'm obsessing when I want to be impacting . ’ |
| 22 | I want to be accepted . |
| 23 | I 'm scared of him , and I 'm fond of him , and I want to be quit of him , and I want to stay with him , and he 's totally irrelevant in every way , and I 'm madly curious about him . |
| 24 | In other words , I want to be loved . |
| 25 | You quickly get past the point of worrying that there are no guitars here , Phil Ramone and the orchestra do a superb job of keeping the arrangements crisp and fresh , and the strings never overwhelm the singer , even when she is at her most whispering , as in the Marilyn vehicle ‘ I Want To Be Loved By You ’ and amidst the tragic melancholy of ‘ Gloomy Sunday ’ . |
| 26 | I want to be loved . |
| 27 | She follows this with a beautifully breathy version of Cole Porter 's ‘ You Do Something To Me ’ ( from ‘ Red , Hot & Blue ’ ) and the Marilyn Monroe classic ‘ I Want To Be Loved By You ’ ( boo boo be doo ! ) and ( next week , fan mugs ! ) you get the chance to buy the second half of this two CD set including the title track ( again ) plus ‘ Someone To Watch Over Me ’ and — wait for it — ‘ My Heart Belongs To Daddy ’ . |
| 28 | and with a leprous man came over and began doing a to him saying , Lord if you just want to you can make me clean , and so stretching out his hand he touched him saying , I want to be made clean and immediately his leprosy was , vanished away , then Jesus said to him , see that you tell no one , but go and show yourself to the priest and offer the gift that Moses appointed for the purpose of a witness to them when he entered into Calpurnia that 's the other two , that the other |
| 29 | And I 'll tell you one more thing , Mr Oh , so famous Vila , if you want to get rid of me , you ca n't begin to imagine how much I want to be rid of you ! |
| 30 | I want to be forgiven . ’ |