Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [prep] [be] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the smaller bands put out seven-inch singles themselves , whereas here everyone wants to be the next big thing and I hate all that . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | Do I want to be a dead hero or a living idiot ? |
| 5 | " I could n't have a worse offer if I lived to be a hundred . |
| 6 | Snowdon I found to be a Scottish mountain transposed to North Wales . |
| 7 | We are discussing strategic new developments-someone has to be the first to develop the product or technology . |
| 8 | I want to be a rich young man , if wealth is what it takes to buy this feeling ; a young lord leaving the city after a night of riot … |
| 9 | ‘ I want to be a long distance lorry driver or one of those dispatch riders in London , that would be quite exciting . |
| 10 | I want to be a real poet . |
| 11 | I want to be a good horsewoman , if only to show my mother-in-law I can do it . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Well , I 've decided I want to be a proper writer . |
| 13 | I want to be a social worker so I could do something for these girls . ’ |
| 14 | December I want to be the longest-serving manager under Peter Swales . |
| 15 | ‘ I want to be the best ’ she explains proudly , ‘ it does n't matter how long it takes . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I do n't think I have much else to prove … other than that I want to be the best player in the world . |
| 17 | I do n't want to be one of the best in the world , I want to be the best in the world , and everyone I come up against is a stepping stone to me getting over that bridge . |
| 18 | Why are n't I number one ? ’ , adding , ‘ If I 'm in the game , I want to be the best . ’ |
| 19 | Do you know how I want to be the Prime Minister of next year ? |
| 20 | And I 'd like to fight him because he 's undefeated and I want to be the first man to beat him . |
| 21 | ‘ And I want him to win because he 's unbeaten and I want to be the first man to take the H out of Holyfield . ’ |
| 22 | But I want to be the first man to achieve Football League status after a full playing career . |
| 23 | He 'd just become the first Briton to win two world titles on foreign soil and added : ‘ I want to be the first British fighter to win three world titles at different weights . ’ |
| 24 | Martin Luther King once said , ‘ I want to be the white man 's brother , not his brother-in-law . |
| 25 | It 's not that I want to be the ideal woman ; I 'd simply like to be able to walk down a street and not even think about it . |
| 26 | I 'm not here to be flattered I want to be the oldest . |
| 27 | I want to be an old-fashioned wife to you , Nicolo . ’ |
| 28 | She looked me over , said I seemed to be a nice girl and announced that she had just the job for me — taking her goats out for a walk ! |
| 29 | In this way he saw that Man was truly made in the Image of God : ‘ The primary Imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception , and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM ’ ( Biographia Literaria , xiii ) . |
| 30 | They exchanged what he describes , with lowered eyes , as ‘ the usual preliminaries ’ , which I imagine to be a sordid discussion about the cost of one swift and surely emotionally unsatisfying and physically degrading copulation , and proceeded on their way up the now rapidly dusking street — one of them bright with the low cunning of unscrupulous greed and the other already stepping into the heavy gloom of unavoidable and deserved shame or guilt . |