Example sentences of "[pron] to be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A seemingly exasperated Jesus says , Oh faithless and perverse generation , how long am I to be with you ? |
| 2 | I fear the Tory tabloids have made it difficult for those of us anti-Leftists who consider ourselves to be of a more reflective disposition . |
| 3 | And Proust concludes from this that erm when we believe ourselves to be in love , and I quote , ‘ the bonds between us and the other person exist in our minds only . ’ |
| 4 | I felt that I needed someone to be with me all day and all night . |
| 5 | ‘ Once upon a time I 'd 've made you turn religious , ’ said Constance , and suddenly it occurred to Scarlet that really she was already religious , as anyone who had borne a child must surely be : not in the conventional sense but rather as a passenger on a train would expect someone to be at the controls . |
| 6 | Men do so long for someone to be in charge . |
| 7 | Elizabeth was someone to be in this situation and Portia is also . |
| 8 | Somebody to be with me . |
| 9 | ‘ A blow on behalf of the ordinary universe ’ Golding once called his own fiction in a BBC interview , explaining what he had thought himself to be about when he wrote Pincher Martin . |
| 10 | A problem arises when a person makes a mistake about the circumstances by which he is confronted and supposes himself to be under attack when in truth he is not . |
| 11 | In January 1312 , as soon as he felt himself to be beyond the reach of the barons , the favourites were restored . |
| 12 | Michael , I suspect , considered himself to be on the losing side and probably wished he was on the winning side . |
| 13 | In routine work the field man must display himself as competent in other , subtler ways , showing himself to be on top of his job . |
| 14 | When he saw the cap badges he felt himself to be on home ground . |
| 15 | The Prince Napoleon-Jerome had from the inauguration of the Empire been a constant , and public , critic of his cousin 's policies , proving himself to be at best an embarrassment , at worst a threat to the regime . |
| 16 | On 9 January 1227 Henry III declared himself to be of full age , and immediately began measures to reclaim the Forest rights of his crown . |
| 17 | I stayed in bed for the next twenty-four hours , sleeping , drinking a little water , not eating at all , and only rousing myself when Gav arrived back ( from his parents ' , I wrongly assumed ) , loudly declaring himself to be of unsound liver but totally in love . |
| 18 | What a shame that Andy Nicol is not a few years younger , for he too showed himself to be of world class in last year 's celebration of New Zealand 's centenary , when he played for the World XV in Christchurch . |
| 19 | She would be seated in front of his desk before he allowed himself to be near her ; then he would lean against the same side of the desk as she . |
| 20 | In 1919 Eliot felt himself to be in a similar position . |
| 21 | He imagined himself to be in the centre of the city now , surrounded by its magnificent old crumbling buildings , its churches and palaces , villas and castles filled with the rich trappings of the centuries and set about by the bustle , the noise , the filth , squalor and abject poverty of the streets . |
| 22 | The Earl Marischal , who had supposed himself to be in charge , immediately yielded his position to Tullibardine , though retaining command of the ships which had brought them there . |
| 23 | Ramsay now found himself to be in command of this detachment , the only knight present . |
| 24 | In respect of God 's being , the fundamental axiom with which Barth works is that God is ‘ eternally and antecedently in himself ’ what he shows himself to be in Jesus . |
| 25 | Absorbing his father 's deep piety , he believed himself to be in direct communication with angels , and with the Lord himself , who had predestined him to be ‘ King of Kings and Solar King of the World ’ , sent to repopulate his nation . |
| 26 | He felt himself to be in the presence of a creative genius and experienced " enjoyments of such peculiar piquancy that today I am not quite my old self … |
| 27 | The discovery that he was still here , that his heart had found time , in that sinister cell he inhabited , to entrench itself in the obsessions of his lifetime , and that he believed himself to be in contact with the ghost of the dead king , were complications Huy could have done without . |
| 28 | According to the official Soviet news agency Tass Gorbachev " declared himself to be in favour of the principle of self-determination stopping short of secession " , and he expressed the conviction that the way towards republican political sovereignty , economic independence and cultural development was a restructuring of the Soviet Union as a federation of sovereign states . |
| 29 | She watched him in reluctant fascination as he put to her , ‘ When it comes to being irresponsible , your brother , I 'm afraid , has already proved himself to be in the top league . ’ |
| 30 | Dreadful for you to be without Mrs Howard — I was a day or two without Maria , so I can completely sympathize . |