Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Perhaps you would help me up on deck ? ’ she ventured expectantly , adding with a bewitchingly brief smile , ‘ I 'd hoped to be alone for a while . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd wanted to be an actor since I was seven , ’ he says . |
| 3 | All through the '70s I 'd wanted to be in a rock band and I ended up doing it and it was nothing like as exciting as I 'd imagined it from reading and listening to records . |
| 4 | I 'd wanted to be a nurse or a policewoman , but I had to leave school right away and help support my family . |
| 5 | I felt I 'd tried everything , I 'd tried to be a good wife , mother , mistress what else could I do ? |
| 6 | In the big chief 's private office Hartley informs me casually that what I 'd taken to be a ping pong ball-firing toy gun on the table behind me was actually an automatic 12-bore shotgun capable of delivering a dozen lethal rounds in quick succession . |
| 7 | In the big chief 's private office Hartley informs me casually that what I 'd taken to be a ping pong ball-firing toy gun on the table behind me was actually an automatic 12-bore shotgun capable of delivering a dozen lethal rounds in quick succession . |
| 8 | I 'd expected to be met by Famlio gunships because they 're always there . |
| 9 | How would I have tried to be . |
| 10 | I did n't have the time , nor would I have expected to be romanced in a way which might have encroached on either of our careers . |
| 11 | I had decided to be vague . |
| 12 | So the flooding had not been from the lake — which hitherto I had assumed to be the case ; maybe it had come from the river whose bed , now dried , I had seen from my eminence on the hillside . |
| 13 | I had grown to be a large , lumpy sort of man . |
| 14 | Right from the very start I had wanted to be a test-pilot . |
| 15 | I had wanted to be a nun before Nour had made me love him with his golden hair and his golden face and his golden eyes . |
| 16 | I had planned to be No 1 again some time next year . |
| 17 | And then , at 4 am one pitch-dark morning , I found myself where all along I had planned to be : standing on a steep hillside on a clifftop , waiting for the sun to rise on the world 's first dawn of the day . |
| 18 | ‘ I had intended to be , but I got a call from my special friend and spent the afternoon with him . ’ |
| 19 | I had hoped to be writing a birth report about how wonderful it is to use a large pool of warm water in labour . |
| 20 | I had hoped to be the editor of a book all on my own at last , but this project is important and so urgent that have been drafted on to help . |
| 21 | ‘ I had hoped to be gone so that I would not be obliged to face her . ’ |
| 22 | Yeah I just I guess I had hoped to be pleasantly surprised that it was n't rhetoric |
| 23 | ON Friday 26 June 1992 — nine months after I had applied to be a Winant and Clayton Volunteer — I flew from Heathrow to New York . |
| 24 | When Stephen was in hospital they kept us on the same house with all the mothers and babies , even though I had asked to be off it . |
| 25 | Coming as I did directly from higher education , I had expected to be treated as an adult and be allowed to explore my own educational needs during my three year RGN training , undertaken a few years ago . |
| 26 | Immediately the livingstonii swum up and gently nibbled my fingers — the last thing I had expected to be the cause of the tingling . |
| 27 | Life with Lisabeth in the flat , which I had expected to be anything but a rich pageant , turned out to be not half bad . |
| 28 | On Maundy Thursday , I had ceased to be a member of the top class Infants and now entered the Boys School , which at that time catered for seven to fourteen year olds — the latter being school leaving age . |
| 29 | I had ceased to be good at the convent , and now I also ceased to be either healthy or clever . |
| 30 | Already I had ceased to be sure which side I was on . |