Example sentences of "he always [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | He always had to be number one . |
| 2 | He always had to be the one who calmed her down . |
| 3 | ‘ His most annoying habit was that he always had to be right . |
| 4 | When he was well , he always seemed to be in demand and was proud to have worked on the Salisbury Cathedral restoration in the 1860 s , carried out under the direction of the great Victorian architect , Sir Gilbert Scott . |
| 5 | He always seemed to be picking on me . |
| 6 | And he always seemed to be campaigning vigorously and futilely for some boy or other who had been sent to borstal for a criminal offence . |
| 7 | He always seemed to be on the move … |
| 8 | He always seemed to be ringing from a callbox , on grounds that the walls in his office had ears . |
| 9 | The effect was that he always seemed to be smiling . |
| 10 | He was clever in a bubbling , sideways way that Masklin distrusted ; he always seemed to be bottling up excitement about something , and when he spoke the words always rushed out , with Nisodemus putting ‘ ums ’ in the flow of words so that he could catch his breath without anyone having the chance to interrupt him . |
| 11 | He always seemed to be hanging about , keeping a watchful eye on them . |
| 12 | Well the , the , the , the , the sort of , the sort of background as I have seen it he never struck me as being particularly clever or bright it 's just that he always seemed to be very well taught and academically successful and exams never seemed an undue problem , and so he went off to Wolverhampton Poly which he selected for , you know , all the usual reasons , reasonable place , reasonable course , a reasonable this a reasonable that , tt erm to do computer science which of course all the kids want to do now erm twentieth centu no it is n't it 's a sort of nineteen eighties version of wanting to be an engine driver is n't it ? |
| 13 | He 's just a bit cleverer than the rest , but willing to take advice with it , and is happy being the writer he always wanted to be . |
| 14 | He always tried to be reasonable and logical in his arguments , but he knew reason and logic would be wasted on Walter Carew . |
| 15 | That was why he always had to be in the saddle , controlling everything within his reach with great brilliance and clarity of mind . |
| 16 | He just gives us an exercise out of the book , and he just sits … he always seems to be writing something . ‘ |
| 17 | ‘ He always seems to be very nice . ’ |
| 18 | Im also ‘ concerned ’ that he always seems to be the catalyst for the periods when Leeds start ‘ buzzing ’ . |
| 19 | He said it to Andy though , and I mean I do n't , I do n't know , Andy really surprises me because like he always seems to be like , the quiet one does n't it ? |
| 20 | Simple as that And he always wanted to be in on any underground culture going . |
| 21 | He always wanted to be the most important thing in the room . |
| 22 | But he always wanted to be the one in control , the top dog , to be the one who could take off on a whim and relate his volatility to democratic individual freedom to do as one pleased — a special privilege to which only Americans were supposed to be entitled . |
| 23 | In addition , we 're treated to Diddley 's special line in leg thrusts and his band 's synchronised ministry of funny walks , plus an exclusive interview that drifts between songs , where he explains how he always wanted to be a drummer . |
| 24 | ‘ I was never into boxing , but Ron , he always wanted to be fighting something . |
| 25 | Kim , I ask you , because he always wanted to be a spy ! |
| 26 | In addition , we 're treated to Diddley 's special line in leg thrusts and his band 's synchronised ministry of funny walks , plus an exclusive interview that drifts between songs , where he explains how he always wanted to be a drummer . |
| 27 | ‘ He always wanted to be a detective when he grew up . |
| 28 | But erm , you know , it 's , it 's like erm , if you talk about erm , funding per head or funding for the , for the overall spaces , you know , if it 's Mr , he always wants to be funded by the , the mile of roadblock for the population , because we have rather a lot of one to the other , and I think there may be a similar situation with the police . |
| 29 | He died in Bethnal Green 14 July 1839 ; he was reputed to be worth about £300,000 , ‘ though he always appeared to be in poor circumstances ’ . |