Example sentences of "i [verb] to [be] [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got to be careful of the traffic , cos a car nearly hit me . |
| 2 | I expected to be terrified of the pain and I was worried that if anything went wrong I would n't be able to cope . |
| 3 | I tend to be guilty of deviating from the subject matter , this being tantamount to stealing the thunder from the individual under scrutiny . |
| 4 | Live and let live I say , but unless I want to be certain of constantly bumping into parties of rambling Rotarians , I think I will keep off these organised highways . |
| 5 | I want to be free of pain . ’ |
| 6 | I want to be aware of that when I 'm planning my month . |
| 7 | However , if I am a regular customer and the stall owner gives me credit because I happen to be short of cash , I do have an obligation to come back . |
| 8 | I seem to be free of mundane anxieties . |
| 9 | And I began to be conscious of my unnatural state , and cry in the night sometimes for no real reason except that I wanted a man beside me — any man at all , I sometimes thought , and the little voice which had been so snooty before , now held its peace on the subject . |
| 10 | ‘ The decision to do so was one of the hardest I have ever made : but now that I am committed ( by dint of posting the letter before I had time to change my mind ) I began to be afraid of opposite extremes — afraid that I am merely indulging in an orgy of egoism . ’ |
| 11 | Whatever it was , I began to be aware of all the doubts , of all the rational thoughts that I had put away in my pursuit of ‘ complementary ’ medicine . |
| 12 | Many black adolescents I talked to were conscious of the differences between their own Creole and their parents ' . |
| 13 | If many of Hewlett 's correspondents felt as Mrs Lowndes did , this explains why Hewlett 's letters as edited by Laurence Binyon ( 1925 ) make such unexciting reading ; she herself records that of the three hundred letters printed by Binyon there was only one ‘ which I felt to be characteristic of the man I knew so well ’ . |
| 14 | I meant to be fond of her but I found her tiring . |
| 15 | At my boarding school , I learned to be ashamed of him . |
| 16 | And we stood there , me with a great big frown on my face , quite mystified that William could n't see what I was getting at … and William smiling but looking equally puzzled that I appeared to be incapable of understanding what he meant . |
| 17 | I said to be chary of the McLaggans — ‘ No no , there is no harm really . |
| 18 | ‘ I knew I had to be tolerant of any mechanical faults which were bound to surface during the year , ’ he says . |
| 19 | In 1980 , coming back from a hospital in the States where I had been told that I ought to have an operation ( interestingly on my throat — it was as though all the tension caused by what I could not say was caught up there ) , I saw that I had to be free of this . |
| 20 | Somehow , I had to be worthy of this sacrifice ; to make my life count , if only a little . |
| 21 | I admit to being guilty of slapping his face , in anger . |
| 22 | And I admit to being guilty of one of Dewey 's charges : as an editor , I have not shared reviewers ' comments with other reviewers , and I have certainly published papers after they have received negative reviews yet may not have explained why to those reviewers who labour so hard on my behalf . |
| 23 | When I last wrote to you in January I mentioned that I hoped to be relieved of the secretarial duties of the B.A.E.C. by another member who had volunteered to take these over . |
| 24 | I have seen at long last that I need to be free of my beloved mistress and even as I write that word it is hollow for how can I love one who no longer has the least regard for me ? |
| 25 | Like I have to be sure of him . |
| 26 | ‘ I have to be careful of her , ’ Mr Hobbs said . |
| 27 | ‘ I would love another child but I have to be aware of the possibility that I 'm not going to be able to have one of my own , ’ she said . |
| 28 | ‘ The way I see it , I have to be wary of upsetting you , in case you go home and tell this fiancée of mine all about my wicked Caribbean love-nest . |
| 29 | I refuse to be scared of living there . ’ |
| 30 | I wanted to be sure of you , you see . ’ |