Example sentences of "[pron] i [vb past] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One family gave me a day off every month , told me I had to be back before nine in the evening and checked my bag when I left to see if I had n't robbed anything . |
| 2 | ‘ People in football will understand — Lennie Lawrence told me I needed to be superhuman to perform in that atmosphere . |
| 3 | For example , at the next table at the Exmoor Forest Hotel , he had overheard two people talking to each other , a ‘ very well bred looking old man with a dry peevish voice whom I took to be mentally deranged and a woman who was either his daughter or his nurse ’ . |
| 4 | Some gentlemen dressed in grey whom I took to be equerries had organized us so that the royal party had two corridors , flanked by people , to walk down . |
| 5 | I began to reckon up the people whom I knew to be prisoners . |
| 6 | Why else should I still be yearning after a man whom I knew to be a murderer while shrinking from the innocent Syl whose only crime was that I found him unattractive ? |
| 7 | I made use of their terror for my own amusement , and raising my voice still more , I shouted at him whom I assumed to be present , lying invisible in some corner … |
| 8 | ‘ So my first thought was of a time-space machine ( thanks to H. G. Wells ) in which contemporary characters ( one of whom I wanted to be a 12–13 year old ) would be able to travel forward and backward in time , and inward and outward in space . |
| 9 | It 's just that that just how I I had to be . |
| 10 | I may have seen many Garter Snakes on sale which I took to be pattern variations on the species most commonly available . |
| 11 | A soft pattering followed which I took to be matches falling around the receiver . |
| 12 | A woman was driving and she parked beside our land-cruiser , nodding to us briefly as she stepped out onto the road and flung a series of questions at the Indian , half in Spanish and half in a more guttural tongue , which I took to be Quechua . |
| 13 | There were dots in some of the distant fields which I assumed to be sheep . |
| 14 | However , I would also like to remind him that I wrote in response to a report which I assumed to be factual . |
| 15 | As I flew the approach I observed quite a tall tree on the threshold , which I assumed to be the obstruction . |
| 16 | The distortion on the unit , which I expected to be awful , is actually very good , although I do n't think it quite lives up to Ibanez 's claim that the unit could serve as a preamp , when linked to an amplifier . |
| 17 | Thus was I punished for wanting to go to these places , which I knew to be prisons for God . |
| 18 | I wanted to choose for myself , yes , but I also wanted to escape into a world of certainties , which I knew to be unreal while desperately wanting to believe that it might have some reality . |
| 19 | I said I was n't sure , but I gave them a phone number which I knew to be Nassim 's office above a leather warehouse in Brick Lane . |
| 20 | I felt a huge emptiness in which I feared to be dissolved . |
| 21 | ( All matters which I judged to be vital and contemporary ! ) |
| 22 | ( 39 ) A hand which I noticed to be surprisingly powerful . |
| 23 | If many of Hewlett 's correspondents felt as Mrs Lowndes did , this explains why Hewlett 's letters as edited by Laurence Binyon ( 1925 ) make such unexciting reading ; she herself records that of the three hundred letters printed by Binyon there was only one ‘ which I felt to be characteristic of the man I knew so well ’ . |
| 24 | It might dilute the real body of work which I felt to be making some kind of contribution . |
| 25 | Surely the House acted wisely when hon. Members on both sides of the Chamber threw out the Shops Bill , which I considered to be a disgraceful piece of legislation . |
| 26 | Erm I think they probably thought their jobs were at threat or the continuation of employment in their quarry and the quarry would shut down which manage management had certainly hinted at , yet which I considered to be a bluff , because no one 's gon na kill the goose that lays the golden egg . |
| 27 | A lower compartment with a curved zipper offers easy and quick access to things like waterproofs or extra sweaters , and the main bag itself has a zip-out divider , which I found to be quite useful . |
| 28 | One which I found to be of great value in my business life , until the advent of decimalisation , was learnt in Standard Four , in the usual sing-song fashion . |
| 29 | Smith had a reputation for being devious and unreliable , which I found to be far from true . |
| 30 | Beautifully displayed on it were two twists of marinated salmon , sprigs of red and green lettuce and watercress , slices of passion fruit , two slices of filet of hare , a sprig of broccoli , two crumbed and fried mushrooms in a pale-gold sauce which I guessed to be pan juices , reduced and bodied out with cream . |