Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [verb] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The arts can have a liberating effect on people , encouraging them to change from being passive and dependent to being creative and active . |
| 2 | ‘ It 'll make me want to be a Brownie even more ! ’ |
| 3 | Part of the impetus had been the growing frustration felt by women in the voluntary work committees that they and the issues which concerned them tended to be elbowed aside by men . |
| 4 | The nun who admitted them appeared to be covered from head to foot apart from her eyes , nose , and mouth , for after she had bolted the gate behind them she tucked her bare hands into her sleeves , then led the way up a gravel path , on either side of which a lawn extended as far as a further high , stone wall , its top also embedded with glass . |
| 5 | Now , the topic that Sheila asked me to talk about was skin care . |
| 6 | But you do n't get that choice you do n't er and to me I , I hate going because the , you , you got everyone seems to be , it 's , it 's as bad as a road really with the trolleys erm and I badly miss this over-the-counter service but er |
| 7 | ‘ These are the songs I grew up listening to , ’ she says , ‘ they are the songs that made me want to be a singer . ’ |
| 8 | He taught me the fundamentals of the job … unsparingly … he channelled my discontent and made me want to be an actor . |
| 9 | Do you think I want to be here ? ’ |
| 10 | I do n't think I want to be drawn into this web of deceit . |
| 11 | I do n't think I care to be classified as a slag , you have to sleep around to be a slag . |
| 12 | Well the honourable gentleman as always makes er more than a debating point , I think he makes a serious point which er deserves to be answered , erm it is not , if I can put it this way , the intention of these orders er to turn auditors into er snoopers or narks er and to do so I think runs some very serious risks , not only of reducing and undermining the relationship between auditors and their clients , not only of imposing very substantial additional cost burdens on auditors which will have to be borne by companies and ultimately their clients , but also there has an example he 's given I think to be some difference , put it no more than that between public money and private money , even though I acknowledge that were talking here about the trusteeship in some cases of of er d er public deposits and funds . |
| 13 | ‘ When I got here , ’ he said expressionlessly , ‘ I realised I needed to be in love with more than just a city . |
| 14 | No is , I mean I have to be out by half past seven , actually , something on half past seven on , you know , on the other programme that 'll be worth recording I think , something about |
| 15 | What made I wanted to be a policeman ? |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ? ’ |
| 18 | But that never stopped me wanting to be . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I found I had to be very firm with her , or she 'd have run rings around me , and how would she learn ? |
| 20 | ‘ I was suffering from a virus and was n't really fit , so all things considered I had to be happy with my performance , ’ he said . |
| 21 | I it is not envisaged I mean I must n't mislead you at all I want I want to be understood on this issue . |
| 22 | See why I want I wanted to be |
| 23 | Sometimes , during the ritual prayer , now he had got over the early stages of wondering when to get on the floor , when to rise , and exactly how to get the fingers up to the earlobes , he found himself begging to be excused any significance in his actions . |
| 24 | I think had we managed to stick it together a bit longer , all fifty of us , and just prove to the management that we were n't gon na be starved back to work which seemed to be the way they wanted us to go back , you know because the board had you know escalated , you know I think had we managed to stick it together , certainly the result would 've been different . |
| 25 | ‘ I expect you want to be nurse , ’ Dr Forrest said to Bobbie , after he had seen Mother . |
| 26 | When d' you have to be in ? ’ she asked |
| 27 | ‘ How d' you come to be here today ? ’ |
| 28 | She say she going to be entertainer . |
| 29 | But they say you have to be over 35 to comply with the insurance requirements . |
| 30 | Having cre , credit by David 's withering look I always say you have to be terrified ! |