Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [verb] to be [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The actual process of putting them together proved to be an awful lot more difficult than we first thought . |
| 2 | ‘ Like Grete , I just try to be the same person . |
| 3 | ‘ I just happen to be the exception . ’ |
| 4 | I just wanted to be a poet . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't know about being a sex symbol — I just want to be the sprinkling of sunshine in your cornflakes , ’ he laughs . |
| 6 | I just want to be the sprinkling of sunshine on your cornflakes ! |
| 7 | ‘ And anyway , why do I always have to be the German ? ’ |
| 8 | According to Madonna , ‘ I always wanted to be a movie star . |
| 9 | Noel Blake summed up the general view : ‘ I always wanted to be a footballer ; there was never anything else . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ As far back as I can remember , ’ he confides , ‘ I always wanted to be a gangster . ’ |
| 11 | So I got er experience of three months now , that was really very nice experience which I always wanted to be a teacher although I did n't join here . |
| 12 | ‘ I started writing scripts when I was fifteen , ’ he said , ‘ and I always wanted to be a serious writer . |
| 13 | ‘ As far back as I can remember , ’ he confides , ‘ I always wanted to be a gangster . ’ |
| 14 | I always wanted to be an actor since I was about five and my parents would take me to the cinema and theatre . |
| 15 | In spite of all my education , I still seemed to be the coarse , common boy she used to laugh at . |
| 16 | P.S. I work for the Inland Revenue — am I still allowed to be a punk ? |
| 17 | I 'm pessimistic because I believe that if the council is to tackle what I still believe to be a big problem of the local authority then it can not really do so without the support of the largest party on this authority and if we have heard erm an honest assessment of their perception of of the case , I I really I really do despair that this council will will get to the bottom of the problem . |
| 18 | The author of what I later discovered to be a scholarly , if tendentious , account of us foreign policy since Korea , he expressed a fastidious regret for the instruments America had to work through but justified the excesses of the client governments by reference to the worse alternative of Marxist dictatorship . |
| 19 | In the first case , I remember watching the old man come slowly down the stairs after ‘ a secret operation ’ never openly discussed but which I now take to be a colostomy . |
| 20 | All was well algae-wise apart from a smear of brown algae on the glass , some beard algae on the bogwood and on some of the slow-growing plants and what I now know to be the tell-tale sign of a thin greasy film on the water surface , which is present long before it thickens up into slime algae . |
| 21 | ‘ I really want to be a tennis player . |
| 22 | ‘ Please take notice that I sometimes need to be the real me ’ , is what she seems to be really saying through the way she 's portrayed herself . ’ |
| 23 | I fully intended to be a professional golfer . |
| 24 | In this he stated his loyalty to the ‘ Church of England , whose faith and government and worship are … free from the extremes of irreverence and superstition … and which I firmly believe to be a sound part of the Church universal ; and which teaches me charity to those who dissent from me ’ . |
| 25 | With the ‘ demographic shift ’ of the 1990 's we must take every opportunity to encourage more girls and young women to follow what I firmly believe to be a most rewarding of careers . |
| 26 | I never asked to be a witch 's daughter . ’ |
| 27 | But Mr Essex , who plays piano and double bass , said : ‘ I never wanted to be a performing musician . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I never wanted to be the British equivalent of David Soul , ’ says Den . |
| 29 | ‘ I never wanted to be the British equivalent of David Soul , ’ says Den . |
| 30 | ‘ I never claimed to be an experienced sailor . |