Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 'll make me want to be a Brownie even more ! ’ |
| 2 | ‘ These are the songs I grew up listening to , ’ she says , ‘ they are the songs that made me want to be a singer . ’ |
| 3 | He taught me the fundamentals of the job … unsparingly … he channelled my discontent and made me want to be an actor . |
| 4 | M. It makes me want to be sick . |
| 5 | It was easy for me to pretend to be in love with the Princess . |
| 6 | I do n't even like you ; you 're virtually blackmailing me to work for you , and now you want me to pretend to be your girlfriend ? ’ |
| 7 | He said he needed me to pretend to be his girlfriend to protect him from the bimbos . ’ |
| 8 | The animals within them are therefore extremely vulnerable , mainly because the populations within them tend to be too small for safety . |
| 9 | Both pulls are strong and theories which purport to reconcile them tend to be fragile , even though they capture a stout commonsense conviction that , as Marx put it , ‘ Men make their own history but they do not make it just as they please ; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Thank God no more by me needs to be said . |
| 12 | Generally speaking , people in this room are sitting around relaxing ; they are n't bustling about generating their own heat so the atmosphere around them needs to be kept at a comfortable temperature . |
| 13 | Is n't it because women are by nature inferior , and know it , so usually there is no need for them to crave to be treated as inferior ? |
| 14 | First among them has to be Hugh Laurie 's facial interpretation of Bertie , now brought to a fine pitch of eye-popping , open-mouthed imbecility . |
| 15 | But our attitude towards them has to be based on the understanding that they want to transform us into a different party — a party which could never win , and might well not deserve to win , against a Conservative government which itself embraces the social market . |
| 16 | So if he finds himself behaving very differently in school to how he behaves at home , one of them has to be ‘ real ’ and the other ‘ phoney ’ . |
| 17 | They can be as immodest and as positive as you like — although the risk of being embarrassed if other people find them has to be taken into account . |
| 18 | Moreover , while these analyses are useful in clarifying relationships the underlying explanation of them has to be sought in the factors surveyed by other chapters . |
| 19 | Only about a third of them has to be what you really call meat . |
| 20 | Only about a third of them has to be what you 'd really call meat , and quite a lot of them had an enormous amount of fat in them . |
| 21 | Both of them want to be close and both need to repair their inner confusion about what they can allow themselves . |
| 22 | This facet of the culture is perhaps the reason why the British administrative and academic élites have obliquely indicated to the police that they do not consider them fit to be allowed to take charge of police research . |
| 23 | My Lords , that concludes my analysis of what I perceive to be the important British cases but before seeking to draw conclusions therefrom I must refer to certain Commonwealth and American cases . |
| 24 | I would not want to return you to your female progenitor in what , from my briefings on human culture , I perceive to be an indecorous condition . ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | I asked to be provided with a car and an interpreter/guide . |
| 27 | But being me I could n't stand that very long , may be two or three months , and I asked to be moved . |
| 28 | When I was alone with the General I asked to be transferred . |
| 29 | ‘ Am I goin' to be by meself ? ’ asked Dolly in disgust . |
| 30 | ‘ What would I want to be in a stupid team for ? ’ |