Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the first was the Camattini family , who left La Spezia , the great port and naval base on the Ligurian Sea which everyone expected to be bombarded by the British Fleet . |
| 2 | And the ultimate development in disposable packaging was the TV dinner , the domestic version of the airline dinner , bought complete with disposable tray , containers , cups and utensils , all of them made to be thrown away . |
| 3 | The noise was intense , constant chatter , voices raised in argument , an air of expectancy , even tension , as everyone pretended to be involved in what was happening around them but secretly watched the great ones at the high table . |
| 4 | When we landed at Bombay ( for the story has a happy ending ) I asked to be shown the piece of tarmac pasteurised for the Pope to kiss on his recent visit , so I could bless it too ( poojahs is the Hindi word ) and give thanks for deliverance . |
| 5 | I asked to be provided with a car and an interpreter/guide . |
| 6 | But being me I could n't stand that very long , may be two or three months , and I asked to be moved . |
| 7 | When I was alone with the General I asked to be transferred . |
| 8 | ‘ My dear fellow , it is but seldom that one has the pleasure of meeting a friend from the old days in Petersburg , but I chanced to be in Vienna recently , and have heard much about you from mutual acquaintances . |
| 9 | It had a title which was not the most inspiring one I had heard in what I presumed to be my life , but told of the one man who had a great impression on me . |
| 10 | " I could n't have a worse offer if I lived to be a hundred . |
| 11 | Something which , if I lived to be two hundred years old then went and announced it at St Paul 's Cross , would rock the very throne of England and scandalise the courts of Europe ! |
| 12 | Later that evening , going on my farewell walk round Cuzco , I fought to be positive , talking to myself like a character in a novel I was reading at the time , David Copperfield 's aunt . |
| 13 | Her father died when she was two , and , after education at the Bar Convent in York , she was courted at fourteen by the thirty-five-year-old Joseph Radcliffe : ‘ poor , little me ! … like a bird in a cage , I fluttered to be at liberty . ’ |
| 14 | I was a member of NALGO from 1979 until the GLC was abolished , when I ceased to be a member for a number of reasons : 1 could not afford it , and because the company for whom I worked was not a Local Authority . |
| 15 | MICHAEL WINNER and I ceased to be on speaking terms after I described him as a very average director who made very average movies . |
| 16 | I was happy as pop singer , the last couple of years I was n't happy when I ceased to be a pop singer and I was er headed on a road of being an entertainer . |
| 17 | I owned to being the coward , traitor , thief and fairy they saw in me . |
| 18 | During August I agreed to be interviewed by World in Action in Manchester . |
| 19 | On orders from the new Earl , my visits to the house were to be permitted only if I agreed to be supervised . |
| 20 | MY later visits to Althorp were allowed only if I agreed to be supervised |
| 21 | I could go to chapel if I agreed to be confirmed when I was older . |
| 22 | I got to be careful about remembering to switch it off . |
| 23 | I got to be more grown up if I 'm going to look after a pet . |
| 24 | I got to be careful — cars just suddenly come out from nowhere and it 's easy to have an accident . |
| 25 | I got to be careful crossing the road , specially when I ai n't feeling too good . |
| 26 | I got to be careful of the traffic , cos a car nearly hit me . |
| 27 | I got to be more careful and watch where I 'm walking . |
| 28 | I got to be grown up and ask people the way . |
| 29 | I got to be careful at the doorways , cos there 's people coming in and out and a couple of times I nearly get knocked over by people bumping into me . |
| 30 | I got to be supervisor in the winches section . |