Example sentences of "[be] [pers pn] [to-vb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
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| 1 | ‘ And who are thee to threaten ? |
| 2 | ‘ Who am I to dance with ? ’ |
| 3 | Am I to watch another woman sink into her grave for want of a little compassion ? ’ |
| 4 | What does he take us for , how am I to feed a family of six ? ’ |
| 5 | And how am I to swear ? ’ |
| 6 | Who am I to complain ? |
| 7 | Who am I to complain ? |
| 8 | But no matter , and who am I to complain , certainly not to Jan , the lady of the maggots , who has been up since four and already whisked through acres of office carpet , scads of bins and oceans of scummy cups . |
| 9 | ‘ Impossible — but who am I to complain ? ’ |
| 10 | What am I to do ? |
| 11 | So Mr Bradley asked the managing director ( sic ) of Westminster , Bill Phillips : ‘ What am I to do ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ And what am I to do when there are hospital bills to find payment for ? ‘ |
| 13 | What am I to do ? ’ |
| 14 | What am I to do ? |
| 15 | What am I to do ? ’ wailed the victim , and indeed it did seem a problem , because — since she was so much taller than either of her companions — her feet were larger than theirs , and she could not get into their comfortable country shoes . |
| 16 | But what am I to do when someone asks me for everything I know on Lake Malawi Cichlids ( as happens fairly often ) . |
| 17 | Wendt , who plays beer-swilling barfly Norm , said : ‘ What am I to do , Shakespeare ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ What am I to do ? |
| 19 | So what am I to do ? |
| 20 | I do admire you all so , but what am I to do ? |
| 21 | What am I to do ? |
| 22 | What am I to do ? |
| 23 | What am I to do ? |
| 24 | Oh , Christ Jesus , what am I to do ? |
| 25 | ‘ What am I to do ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ What am I to do without her ? ’ he groaned . |
| 27 | " What am I to do , Maurice ? " |
| 28 | 8 When preceded by an interrogative pronoun ( I do n't know what to do ) or adverb ( Tell me where to go ) , or by a conjunction ( He looked at the clock , as if it was time to go ) , an infinitive with to is often equivalent to a dependent clause : What to do ; What am I to do ? |
| 29 | What am I to do ? had been her first stunned reaction . |
| 30 | ‘ How am I to do this , ’ she orders , ‘ if you keep moving like an animal ? ’ |