Example sentences of "[adv] i be to " in BNC.
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| 1 | One day I was called back from my duties of covering the coroner 's and juvenile courts and told that henceforth I was to be the paper 's " walking reporter " tramping the Dales and picking up whatever stories I could find . |
| 2 | BELVILLE : So I am to be exposed in my house by such a sauce-box as you . |
| 3 | So I am to be bought off — like a common harpy ! ’ |
| 4 | Govt. defeated and so I am to be P.M. The load will be heavy and I am so much alone . |
| 5 | Meanwhile I was to be foisted on my reluctant Aunt Harriet , whom I had only previously met at family gatherings . |
| 6 | It would have served as a substitute-gratification for their own sadism ( i.e. , ‘ I can not retaliate against my father , but I can against my younger brother ’ ) ; but also as a defence on the part of the ego ( i.e. , ‘ I am spared the anxiety of being made the object of an attack if I can instead become the attacker ’ ) ; finally , it would also have contributed a first , rudimentary focus for the superego ( i.e. , ‘ My father is not now the attacker — I am — hence I am to that extent my father ! ’ ) . |
| 7 | It was a number of weeks ago I had cause to sit on it to do some paperwork ; I then found out I was to be a father again . |
| 8 | Now I was to be a sales assistant . |
| 9 | Now I was to be given to Syl . |
| 10 | ‘ Then I 'm to be a spectator , ’ she said . |
| 11 | If you need to see me you know where I 'm to be found . |
| 12 | I once asked a taxi driver to take me to the Glasgow Herald offices whither I was to hand in my weekly scribblings . |