Example sentences of "i [verb] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 'll make me want to be a Brownie even more ! ’ |
| 2 | ‘ These are the songs I grew up listening to , ’ she says , ‘ they are the songs that made me want to be a singer . ’ |
| 3 | He taught me the fundamentals of the job … unsparingly … he channelled my discontent and made me want to be an actor . |
| 4 | M. It makes me want to be sick . |
| 5 | It was easy for me to pretend to be in love with the Princess . |
| 6 | I do n't even like you ; you 're virtually blackmailing me to work for you , and now you want me to pretend to be your girlfriend ? ’ |
| 7 | He said he needed me to pretend to be his girlfriend to protect him from the bimbos . ’ |
| 8 | Thank God no more by me needs to be said . |
| 9 | My Lords , that concludes my analysis of what I perceive to be the important British cases but before seeking to draw conclusions therefrom I must refer to certain Commonwealth and American cases . |
| 10 | I would not want to return you to your female progenitor in what , from my briefings on human culture , I perceive to be an indecorous condition . ’ |
| 11 | When we landed at Bombay ( for the story has a happy ending ) I asked to be shown the piece of tarmac pasteurised for the Pope to kiss on his recent visit , so I could bless it too ( poojahs is the Hindi word ) and give thanks for deliverance . |
| 12 | I asked to be provided with a car and an interpreter/guide . |
| 13 | But being me I could n't stand that very long , may be two or three months , and I asked to be moved . |
| 14 | When I was alone with the General I asked to be transferred . |
| 15 | ‘ All I asked for was a month 's peace and quiet to get some work done . |
| 16 | ‘ Am I goin' to be by meself ? ’ asked Dolly in disgust . |
| 17 | ‘ What would I want to be in a stupid team for ? ’ |
| 18 | What I mean by setting goals is asking yourself ‘ What sort of person do I want to be ? ’ |
| 19 | Note that I said ‘ do I want to be ’ rather than ‘ would I like to be ’ as the latter allows for the possibility of failure . |
| 20 | ‘ Now why in the name of all Ireland would I want to be fighting ? ’ |
| 21 | Why did I want to be a policeman . |
| 22 | Do I want to be a dead hero or a living idiot ? |
| 23 | Nor do I want to be ruled by the code of Napoleon , against which our ancestors fought in the Napoleonic wars . ’ |
| 24 | Did I want to be brought down ? |
| 25 | Right , but what you 've got the opportunity of doing now during being a life assurance sales person , with self-employed status if you like , with the benefits of being in a company like ours , is really thinking where do I want to be in five years ' time . |
| 26 | Where do I want to be ? |
| 27 | ‘ My dear fellow , it is but seldom that one has the pleasure of meeting a friend from the old days in Petersburg , but I chanced to be in Vienna recently , and have heard much about you from mutual acquaintances . |
| 28 | This is the truth my lad and the first I made for was for the that , just off Canada , is is New Foundland ? |
| 29 | Er my Lord er the second observation I make about erm Mr opinion erm and the facts upon which it is based is that his opinion is hotly disputed er , not least because of what it would be submitted is the highly speculative nature of this enterprise er , when you are being asked to consider with the benefit of hindsight , whether or not a business entered into some eighty years ago , was likely to have failed and er it is also an exercise which in my submission is entirely irrelevant if your Lordship would find the basis of compensation which I contend for is the one because the logic of not having to become involved in any investigation of whether or not this business would probably have been unsuccessful in any event . |
| 30 | Not that I mean to be cynical , but I do teach in an inner-city school ( where only Advanced Level pupils have textbooks — and they share — and where practical work involves half-a-dozen to a bunsen ) . |