Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hard experience has taught me to be selective in my procrastination . |
| 2 | Telling their own story from childhood to an interviewer is for most people an intimate experience which encourages them to be remarkably open about themselves . |
| 3 | In the Middle Ages , when the French adjudged them to be alien , difficult and heathen , they were held to have descended from Scotsmen transported to Spain by Julius Caesar . |
| 4 | ‘ Do you want me to be married ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Perhaps it 'll make Daddy want me to be one too , ’ she added hopefully . |
| 6 | You can be Prince Philip — who do you want me to be ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Do you want me to be nice or honest ? ’ |
| 8 | So then Berndt and the old witch will know I 'm as smart as they do n't want me to be , AND that I 've been poking around in high-security files . |
| 9 | The police did n't want me to be sentenced , which I was stunned about . |
| 10 | Do you honestly want me to be your wife ? ’ |
| 11 | I had assumed he would still want me to be his wife , and wondered why he did not ask me . |
| 12 | Do you want me to be struck off ? |
| 13 | Then what did you want me to be ? |
| 14 | ‘ You did n't want me to be hurt ? |
| 15 | My mother will want me to be more altruistic to hers , than my father will . |
| 16 | My father will want me to be more altruistic to his relatives , than my mother will . |
| 17 | ‘ You would n't want me to be vain . |
| 18 | Silas would not want me to be in a room where somebody such as yourself could have an ear pressed to the wall . |
| 19 | I knew he would n't want me to be pushy and , hard though it was , I decided to wait until the end of the week and then invite him round for dinner . |
| 20 | You do want me to be precise about what I tell you ? ’ |
| 21 | Well do you want me to be at that meeting then ? |
| 22 | ‘ Why did you want me to be at a disadvantage ? ’ she demanded . |
| 23 | daddy I got them , where do you want me to be . |
| 24 | ‘ They expected me to be a lawyer too . |
| 25 | What I discovered at this point , was that they , my Thai co-workers , also expected me to be the teacher for this newly organised project ! |
| 26 | She expected them to be ready , mounted , properly turned out and willing . |
| 27 | She would cook them all a good breakfast and make it clear that she expected them to be at the table on time . |
| 28 | The danger is that they might turn out to be entirely different from how you expected them to be . |
| 29 | He also advocated the appointment of prison inspectors and made it clear that he expected them to be as thorough as he himself had been , probing every corner and speaking with every prisoner . |
| 30 | After the heavy rains of the past days I expected them to be full , and they were , a lot fuller than when I had seen them the year before . |