Example sentences of "that i [vb past] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The natural justification of my choice between the fruit would be something like ‘ The peach looked delicious ’ , which conveys the full information that I expected to be responding in accord with ‘ Be aware ’ until the last trace of the flavour faded from my mouth . |
| 2 | ‘ I could find nothing that I knew to be untrue . |
| 3 | And I found many details that I knew to be true . |
| 4 | In my third year at Oxford , however , I noticed that I seemed to be getting clumsier , and I fell over once or twice for no apparent reason . |
| 5 | Going to another church ( of the Presbyterian Church of England ) my love of God came to be the central factor in my life , and aged almost sixteen I told my headmistress with quiet confidence that I wished to be ordained . |
| 6 | As soon as I set foot in there , I knew that I had to be involved somehow . |
| 7 | My mental health has deteriorated to such an extent that I had to be admitted to hospital and am currently on sedation . |
| 8 | A fierce aunt shocked me by telling me shyness is a form of rudeness and selfishness , and that I had to be the first to talk to two people . |
| 9 | In 1980 , coming back from a hospital in the States where I had been told that I ought to have an operation ( interestingly on my throat — it was as though all the tension caused by what I could not say was caught up there ) , I saw that I had to be free of this . |
| 10 | ‘ Now Bathsheba , ’ he said , laughing , ‘ you know very well that I had to be very careful , as a single man working for you , a good-looking young woman . |
| 11 | I was experiencing what he meant ; a new self-acceptance , a sense that I had to be this mind and this body , its vices and its virtues , and that I had no other chance or choice . |
| 12 | Ah but I believed if I 'm going to discuss or argue about anything as regarding that I had to be interested in it . |
| 13 | ‘ I knew that I had to be the best at everything if I was to haul my family out of the financial trouble they were in . |
| 14 | ‘ The variety of work which included anything from milk quotas to mortgage repossessions , meant that I had to be practical and adapt quickly . |
| 15 | ‘ Generally that I had to be convinced any person posed a risk — and to give a warning before I fired . ’ |
| 16 | Fortunately it became necessary for me to accompany the well-known Solveig 's Song on a dulcitone , which meant that I had to be close beside her in the wings . |
| 17 | When I last wrote to you in January I mentioned that I hoped to be relieved of the secretarial duties of the B.A.E.C. by another member who had volunteered to take these over . |
| 18 | It was the person , the personality that I grew to be really good friends with , that I have now grown to love . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ It was a character that I felt to be a very basic part of me and when I read it I had that immediate connection with him . |
| 20 | ‘ Killer blah , ’ he said in a strange tone of voice that I took to be a warning so I went back under the chair . |
| 21 | It was a measure of my despair that I dared to be so disdainful . |
| 22 | The fact that I appeared to be driving the only topless car on the east coast did n't make it any easier . |
| 23 | And we stood there , me with a great big frown on my face , quite mystified that William could n't see what I was getting at … and William smiling but looking equally puzzled that I appeared to be incapable of understanding what he meant . |
| 24 | This was one call , one lost date , one apology , that I begged to be excused . |
| 25 | In my mind at least I was already the smartly turned-out , bright and efficient young executive that I aspired to be . |
| 26 | From the tarn , I followed my nose down to a cairn that stands on the shoulder above Deepdale Side where the view down Deepdale into Dentdale was so good that I sat and looked at it for a good half-hour until the thought that I needed to be home by late afternoon pushed me on down to the green lane of the old Craven Way . |
| 27 | ‘ I had n't realised that I needed to be a hypochondriac to qualify for your — affections . ’ |
| 28 | I think the other thing was that I wanted to be known as a musician rather than some other phenomenon other than a musician and I think that also had an effect on me too . |
| 29 | I decided when I was 11 and I started doing drama at school , when I came over from New Zealand , that I wanted to be an actress . ’ |
| 30 | Thinking about this now , I know that what I was saying in wanting my periods back was that I wanted to be a woman , that I wanted and liked my female body , that my years of confusion and self-dislike were beginning to be over . |