Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | It gives me pleasure to be able to supply these adventures . |
| 2 | Under his influence , however , I felt I was losing my freedom to be myself . |
| 3 | I express to you the most earnest desire of my heart to be that prosperity and success in social and moral improvement may attend increasingly from year to year the progress of this library . |
| 4 | I will try to slant my handwriting to be more adult like , I will try to get many merit points , I will try to get at the top sets for every lesson you are in the top sets for every lesson do well in them , I want to carry on my good progress in the sports area , I do many sports now and I want to do more |
| 5 | This show is the highlight of the year for Rottweiler enthusiasts and it was my privilege to be able to handle a UK import to win Best of Breed here in 1986 . |
| 6 | J.B. Yes , but yes it was a deliberate act on my part to be respectable . |
| 7 | I 'VE paid my money to be terrified but you ca n't scare me . |
| 8 | ‘ I want my successor to be known while I am alive , ’ he explained . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'd hardly call it my decision to be here with you . |
| 10 | ‘ What I want most is for my mum to be well . |
| 11 | They wanted me to be a secretary and they wanted my sister to be a doctor or something medical . |
| 12 | Just my luck to be travelling east . |
| 13 | things on my mind er , my my mind to be able to apologise . |
| 14 | Last night I had a few things on my mind to be able to apologize . |
| 15 | I delivered it to my agent to be framed and for the final hanging in the boardroom . |
| 16 | I would like my vote to be 100 percent secret between me and the ballot box . |
| 17 | I expect my car to be |
| 18 | He gave a hard smile , and said , ‘ The only one that I knew could fulfil my ambition to be a multimillionaire before I was thirty . ’ |
| 19 | That 's my ambition to be roaring in against the Aussies next year . |
| 20 | Can I find a way of being a teacher — can I see any role models — which allows a satisfactory compromise between my career ambitions , my wish to be a good subject teacher , my desire to promote my broader educational ideals , my intention to be a ‘ real person ’ as much as I can , and my commitment to improving the status and conditions of teaching as a profession ? |
| 21 | ‘ I wanted my Leda to be a little girl . |
| 22 | " It would have been immensely preferable for my return to be accomplished by the [ legal ] process , " de Gaulle told Dulac , but added cryptically : " Tell General Salan that what he has done and what he will do is for the good of France . " |
| 23 | The first is that I felt my battle to be with authority , whether in the form of teachers , matrons , parents , or even nature itself . |
| 24 | I knew what I was going out to and I was only concerned that there might be some hitch or delay , that I might get there and find that someone had made a mistake and I was n't due out for another six months — such was my anxiety to be released . |
| 25 | ‘ Y-yes , but in my anxiety to be gone I f-forgot them . ’ |
| 26 | Actually when you consider that particular kind of situation , what type of person would , in a crucial decision , knowing he was charged with the responsibility for the direction of his family , say ‘ I consider my plan to be the most effective , but we 'll do it your way to keep peace ’ ? |
| 27 | ‘ You are forbidden by my Creator to be in here ! ’ |
| 28 | It was always my dream to be in that situation . |
| 29 | I asked for my question to be translated into Bengali . |
| 30 | Is it compulsory for my child to be involved in Compact ? |