Example sentences of "i to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I to be a corporal of his field , |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | Nevertheless , it clearly would n't do for Karen and I to be seen together immediately afterwards . |
| 5 | Indeed , he even reveals that he has recovered from a bout of depression : ‘ What right have I to be depressed ? |
| 6 | Am I to be interested in you or not ? ’ |
| 7 | Am I to be troubled by a skinny old fool in mirror shades ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | ‘ Am I to be dragged halfway across the country in a cart ? ’ |
| 13 | PAMELA : And pray , how came I to be his property ? |
| 14 | ‘ Am I to be a king , or just a pig ? ’ |
| 15 | A seemingly exasperated Jesus says , Oh faithless and perverse generation , how long am I to be with you ? |
| 16 | Am I to be allowed out of here ? ’ |
| 17 | This enabled the movements of Filden I to be monitored closely from the time she left Dieppe . |
| 18 | ‘ Am I to be weaponless again ? ’ said Hrun . |
| 19 | ‘ Am I to be allowed to phone for a cab from your apartment ? ’ |
| 20 | Ought I to be fearful for my life ? ’ |
| 21 | Who am I to be merciful ? |
| 22 | Am I to be killed in this mysterious attempt to escape ? ’ |
| 23 | At length she asked , ‘ Am I to be content with that snippet of intelligence : ‘ Sir George likes me ’ ? ’ |
| 24 | Am I to be mobbed by all these folk for want of an end to their Mystery ? |
| 25 | Dragging the pad towards him he found a clean page and wrote : Dear Harsnet , I know you never answer my letters or return my calls , and I know that you handed over your notes to me on the understanding that I could do what I liked with them and not bother you , but I have to say that while there is much in them that I admire , as I will always admire much in you , no matter what , there is also much in them that seems to me to be puerile and , to put it mildly , bigoted . |
| 26 | It seems to me to be perverse in the extreme to attempt to resist the claim that the brain is literally carrying out these functions . |
| 27 | Some time in the early hours of the morning we cross over what seems to me to be a pontoon bridge , then suddenly we are up to our thighs in water . |
| 28 | The phenomenon seems to me to be different in kind from the first . |
| 29 | I met the guys , loved the songs and they asked me to be their agent . |
| 30 | The struggle to recover the sense of relation to nature and to God , the recognition that even the most primitive feelings should be part of our heritage , seems to me to be the explanation and justification of the life of |