Example sentences of "be i [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Neither , ’ he continued in the same gentle tone of voice , ‘ am I prepared to be cast as some Viking lover straight out of a Hollywood film , rampaging and raping so that you can put the full responsibilities of your actions on me . |
| 2 | ROS : Am I pretending to be you , then ? |
| 3 | Am I expecting to be able to know all there is to know about Claude Cohn-Casson ? |
| 4 | ‘ And what am I born to be ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Am I goin' to be by meself ? ’ asked Dolly in disgust . |
| 6 | Am I going to be in it ? ’ |
| 7 | Or am I going to be driving ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Am I going to be expelled ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Am I going to be pleased with it ? ’ |
| 10 | First of all , am I going to be able to persuade you to … ’ |
| 11 | Am I going to be able to get out ? |
| 12 | Am I going to be able to pull free ? |
| 13 | ‘ So am I going to be rewarded with an explanation , ’ he growled , ‘ or are you just going to stand there sipping that damn punch all evening ? ’ |
| 14 | Nor am I going to be the world 's greatest skier . |
| 15 | Am I judged to be a member of the human race , or classified as some lesser species ? ’ |
| 16 | Am I meant to be the centre of all this ? ’ |
| 17 | Er Ministers are often in a very grave difficulty these days , if they do n't listen er er they 're accused o o of being autocratic , i i if they do listen , er then they 're accused of making u-turns , well even the gathering swine did n't have to make a u-turn , a change of direction would have been quite sufficient and I welcome the change of direction which the Home Secretary ha has made erm the objectives of this Bill are I think to be commended , but it is be perfectly clear from the outset that you ca n't combat crime by antagonising everyone concerned with the enforcement of law and order , the police authorities , the police and the magistrates . |
| 18 | But at the age of twelve I knew that a falconry course was way beyond my means , so for the time being I had to be content with reading about it . |
| 19 | Th there was sort of decorations on the saddles and things like that you know , and er , er , they had this firm and it was up of course , well , and it , to tell how far it was I had to be in by seven o'clock and I used to run it all the way . |
| 20 | Then ask — " Who was I pretending to be ? " |
| 21 | What happened was I happened to be in the corridors there and the gentleman came in , that 's on the Friday afternoon , gentleman came in and asked to see the Headmaster , so I took him along to see who was the Headmaster then , and erm shortly after that I was called up to see and erm asked me if I 'd like to apply for this job because had seen me erm bringing me up to , bringing him up to see and he said erm , well what about that young fella who brought me up there and would he like to apply . |