Example sentences of "[pers pn] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Deliver it to your home Well , what I to is the erm , getting involved in . |
| 2 | And I to be a corporal of his field , |
| 3 | So he sent a telegram to his wife saying : ‘ Am in Market Harborough — where ought I to be ? ’ and she , being a practical woman , sent a terse telegram with one word : ‘ Home ’ . |
| 4 | Who was I to be taking on a contender like Thomas Carter , a management consultant and the owner-occupier of a £500,000 property set in the accessible Arcadia of Boars Hill ? |
| 5 | Nevertheless , it clearly would n't do for Karen and I to be seen together immediately afterwards . |
| 6 | Indeed , he even reveals that he has recovered from a bout of depression : ‘ What right have I to be depressed ? |
| 7 | Am I to be interested in you or not ? ’ |
| 8 | Am I to be troubled by a skinny old fool in mirror shades ? |
| 9 | I have relatively high stakes in conformity — I happen to have done fairly well out of it ; I would have a certain amount to lose in terms of reputation were I to be apprehended . |
| 10 | Foreign communities , whether tribal or otherwise , are no more anxious than you or I to be subjected to intensive and embarrassingly close scrutiny by a tiresome stranger whose aims and intentions may be , to say the least , puzzling . |
| 11 | I think , I to be quite honest , correct me if I 'm wrong , with regard to the publicity group , that the publicity group really was to get something out that was going to act as an icebreaker to the members . |
| 12 | But , you say , ought n't I to be a policeman or a former policeman myself , like John Wainwright , to be able to do this ? |
| 13 | ‘ Am I to be dragged halfway across the country in a cart ? ’ |
| 14 | PAMELA : And pray , how came I to be his property ? |
| 15 | ‘ Am I to be a king , or just a pig ? ’ |
| 16 | A seemingly exasperated Jesus says , Oh faithless and perverse generation , how long am I to be with you ? |
| 17 | Am I to be allowed out of here ? ’ |
| 18 | This enabled the movements of Filden I to be monitored closely from the time she left Dieppe . |
| 19 | ‘ Am I to be weaponless again ? ’ said Hrun . |
| 20 | ‘ Am I to be allowed to phone for a cab from your apartment ? ’ |
| 21 | Ought I to be fearful for my life ? ’ |
| 22 | Who am I to be merciful ? |
| 23 | Am I to be killed in this mysterious attempt to escape ? ’ |
| 24 | At length she asked , ‘ Am I to be content with that snippet of intelligence : ‘ Sir George likes me ’ ? ’ |
| 25 | Am I to be mobbed by all these folk for want of an end to their Mystery ? |
| 26 | You have to use these methods because there are fifty cassettes coming in every day and you need yours to be picked out and heard with particular care . |
| 27 | Nor is it any use to insist that you can conceive of what it is like for a knee which is not yours to be hurting . |
| 28 | And how have you fi I think we 're gon na end up like with a fire like yours to be honest , because we do n't want to alter that fireplace if we can help it |
| 29 | He regarded posterity as the only afterlife worth contemplating and , to show his contempt for the resurrection of the body , he left his to be dissected — a bold gesture that his contemporaries were slow to follow — and his reconstituted skeleton was exhibited in University College , London . |
| 30 | He did n't exactly offer his hand , but when each of them put out theirs he allowed his to be taken and dangled slightly . |