Example sentences of "[noun sg] i [verb] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I feel fine and in any case I wanted to be here in person and not have to watch you on television . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , in case I seem to be just er avoiding the question , er I would have to say that this has been asked for before and we have resisted time and again , that 's the history of the matter , on the grounds that what these parents are really asking for is baptism and it 's our opportunity to er , to speak in these terms er and it 's a gold golden opportunity if they actually come to us . |
| 3 | For an instant I seemed to be staring into smoke . |
| 4 | I judge that in the time it takes the lift to creep the height of the building I have to be out the door and on my way . |
| 5 | ‘ This is the kind of acting part I want to be offered in future . |
| 6 | He commented that ‘ the rugby club I play for is just like the Conservatives ’ . |
| 7 | One young soldier I trained with was Tony Rees , from Whitchurch , Bristol . |
| 8 | The enemy I speak of is there in your cage with you . ’ |
| 9 | A little late in the day as it happened , but they did and one of the things that helped was the fact that as an Irish citizen I had to be entered on the aliens ’ register by the local police and that required a passport photo . ’ |
| 10 | But it is so poorly executed , muddled in its narrative and just plain old-fashioned dull that the screening I went to was soon humming with critical snores . |
| 11 | Despite the fact that I feel strongly about this issue , I remain open-minded and by seeing as much as is attainable my ideas will develop and so determine the kind of practitioner I hope to be . |
| 12 | And to get to the passage I know of is n't easy , but with this little key I can open the doors now . |
| 13 | ‘ What a pity I have to be at the Brooksby plant this weekend , ’ he said . |
| 14 | independence I like to be independent |
| 15 | One girl I went with was a translator for an embassy ; she did n't seem to be that interested in the money and was happy to stay the whole night with me . |
| 16 | ‘ When I was a girl I wanted to be an actress . |
| 17 | Sport I want to be a football manager . |
| 18 | That spiritual dimension I believe to be of pivotal importance ; indeed I believe it to be the soul of the Green Movement today . |
| 19 | Together , these two chapters constitute an attempt to address the question I consider to be of overriding importance , which is not whether male/female differences exist ( they do ) , what they are or what causes them , but what they mean : what significant social uses are made of them , or more accurately of discourse about them . |
| 20 | ‘ A question I refuse to be drawn on . |
| 21 | For all the family commitment , the team I work for is the team I want to win . ’ |
| 22 | Just at the moment I seem to be getting somewhere , I 'm dragged off the case . ’ |
| 23 | That at a given moment I seem to be seeing a brown patch — this I can not conceivably doubt . |
| 24 | By a strange coincidence the first ditching I heard about was in No 77 Squadron in the early months of the war . |
| 25 | In the summer of 1991 , I had another mink film to make — this time for Wildlife on One — and the first place I thought of was the logjam on the River Usk . |
| 26 | The only place I seemed to be able to reach you was in bed . |
| 27 | ‘ I know what it 's like in there and I 'm not sure it 's a place I want to be . ’ |
| 28 | This is the last place I want to be and I 'm not at all interested in your background . |
| 29 | At the time I had no other reason to come home , but when I heard my mother only had a short time left it was the only place I wanted to be . ’ |
| 30 | It 's work I have some familiarity with because by accident I happened to be the external examiner of the lad who did it , Peter Williamson . |