Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pron] [prep] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You would n't want me to be vain . |
| 2 | ‘ Do you want me to be nice or honest ? ’ |
| 3 | I knew he would n't want me to be pushy and , hard though it was , I decided to wait until the end of the week and then invite him round for dinner . |
| 4 | ‘ Do you want me to be married ? ’ |
| 5 | You do want me to be precise about what I tell you ? ’ |
| 6 | We do not want them to be upset , so we keep them away from funerals , or from saying goodbye , face to face , to their relatives and friends . |
| 7 | She knew that her grown-ups were frightened and she did not want them to be frightened , but she also knew that Fenna was a mightier protection than all their loving care could ever be . |
| 8 | People say : ‘ Students are by definition idealistic and impatient — would Mugabe really want them to be any different ? |
| 9 | Would you want them to be able to express their emotions more intensely and precisely , able to show how they feel ? |
| 10 | Such cases are rare , though the Queen would probably prefer them to be nonexistent . |
| 11 | You see they 've nothing to be frightened of any more . |
| 12 | Also , you may want someone to be able to see base figures and a final result , but not the devious manipulations you have performed on the route twixt the two . |
| 13 | ‘ Silas — are you saying you ca n't trust me to be kind ? ’ |
| 14 | It would delight me to be able to buy you presents ; to take you with me to my friends ' houses , to the theatre , to Biarritz , to Cannes — wherever it pleased you to go . ’ |
| 15 | If I find I can trust you to be sensible . ’ |
| 16 | We are introduced to Imamu in the first sentence of ‘ The Disappearance ’ seeing as he is one of the main characters of the book , but although Boo Radley plays a large part in ‘ To Kill a Mockingbird ’ , I would n't consider him to be one of the main characters and it is not until we are well into chapter one that Boo is first mentioned . |
| 17 | More , he lived in hope that one such mirror would find something behind his looks only another pair of eyes could see : some undiscovered self that would free him from being Gentle . |
| 18 | In the many conversations I had with Ronnie that year , I never heard Ronnie deny it ; nor did I ever know him to be disloyal . |
| 19 | An obvious instance would be the contrast between the suggestion that although we understand the proposition that God exists , we could have no evidence that it is true , and the suggestion that the proposition is incomprehensible to us , and hence a fortiori we can neither know it to be true nor be justified in believing it . |
| 20 | you would need it to be nine o'clock . |
| 21 | that 's one place you would need it to be washable . |
| 22 | However , Nimbus president , Sanjeev Ranjen , believes HyperSparc , thought to lag Viking ( UX No 381 ) , could still leapfrog it in being available to all comers sooner than it rival . |
| 23 | ‘ But I do n't consider it to be adolescent . |
| 24 | A decision to the contrary in the British Columbia Court of Appeal , City of Prince George v. British Columbia Television System Ltd. , 95 D.L.R. ( 3d ) 577 , held that a municipality could sue for libel , but did not consider the argument of competing interests and the balancing exercise required under article 10 , and I do not consider it to be relevant to this appeal . |
| 25 | ‘ You ca n't expect me to be sorry he left the place to me and not to you . |
| 26 | Yeah well you ca n't expect me to be perfect all the time . |
| 27 | You do n't expect me to be surprised , do you ? ’ |
| 28 | If the military regimes of the Interregnum were prepared within reason to allow lay men and women to be godly in whichever way seemed most appropriate to them , they did expect them to be godly in some way . |
| 29 | Yeah , everyone was going on at how rough they are , I mean you ca n't as I 've said before you ca n't exactly expect them to be super models . |
| 30 | The changes in eicosanoids reflected the clinical symptoms ; and we would expect them to be greater in severely symptomatic patients . |