Example sentences of "i [be] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 Eyes sparkling , Vicky told me : ‘ Laurence and I are to spend the whole day together . ’
2 Well Jim and I are to start with to get the er
3 And , Father , he asked — the lord sheriff asked — that I should beg you to have Brother Cadfael informed also , and when the morning comes , if you permit , I am to lead him to the place , to meet the sheriff there .
4 ’ 'T IS glad I am to 'ear it , me lord , ’ came the mocking response .
5 ‘ Accepting — if I am to consent , I should like to make a condition or two — ‘
6 In a letter ‘ On her Mopsus ’ Leapor writes : ‘ I am to confess , that I have drawn my own Picture in many Places where I have described this unlucky Hero ’ [ ML , 2 , 316 ] .
7 ‘ But I 'll need some support if I am to give him the service he wants .
8 I am to give the first reading .
9 I am to finish my training here in Milan .
10 ‘ Methinks I am to be your chaperon — which means , I suppose , that I am to see that you conduct yourself properly and are accompanied suitably whenever you leave these apartments .
11 I just wish now to say I declare the Exhibition open and to say how pleased I am to see so many old friends here today .
12 ‘ But , oh , Tilly … you do n't know how glad I am to see you . ’
13 ‘ And how anxious I am to see her again ? ’
14 I ca n't tell you how pleased I am to see you !
15 ‘ I was just thinking how glad I am to see you , ’ she said candidly .
16 If I am to take four ferrets with me , my preference is for one box with one partition and two ferrets in each compartment .
17 PAMELA : [ moving behind the line of chairs ] Here is the bar at which I am to take my trial .
18 I am to take you to the count .
19 If I am to do what you asked , he wrote , you will have to co-operate .
20 I am staying for a few days at the Dale End Hotel while I explore the district , and I 'd like to know about the Brownies ' Bridge , as I am to do with Brownies . ’
21 If I am to do better than merely throw up my hands and assert that Alison Kraemer was in some indefinable way ‘ the real , right thing ’ , then I would suggest that the distinguishing characteristic of her ascendancy was the way she denied you any possibility of mitigating it .
22 Now tell me what I am to do with you .
23 After Titania 's quatrains — the most artificial verse-form in drama , presupposing as it does that the speaker has four lines already prepared , with rhymes , confident of not being interrupted — Bottom 's prose truly belongs to the world of unromantic everyday appetites : Bottom may have been ‘ translated ’ in shape , but nothing can elevate him to verse and romance — apart , ironically enough , from his role as Pyramus , out of whose Pistol-like doggerel he is ever ready to step in order to explain the play : ‘ She is to enter now , and I am to spy her through the wall .
24 I am to commence paying this moment ?
25 I am to go away shortly , on a convalescent holiday . ’
26 Tomorrow I am to go to Professor Dachauer at the Academy at 11.00 with Dr Viola .
27 Though her lips do not move , I seem to hear words : I am to go back — to sort out this nonsense , once and for all .
28 I am to go in that old brown coat and skirt I brought from Bewick — ’
29 And I am going into the light and I am going into time , and if I am to save the world , then I shall have served the world , and if I do not save the world , then at least I shall have tried .
30 I was very pleased to hear that you will be leading the sessions I am to attend .
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