Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | where I hope to be forgiven |
| 2 | To come somewhere like this would have been better , somewhere where I had to be in at a certain time , where I could n't have certain people come in . |
| 3 | Until I 'm safe in my grave — where I long to be , let me tell you ! — I am still mistress here . ’ |
| 4 | He took us to the Þingvellir National park where the clouds parted and the sun shone on square kilometres of snow that was so clean and pure it made me weep for all the time we had lost on the trip , and for the pleasure of being where I wanted to be . |
| 5 | A piece of land where I happened to be born . |
| 6 | But he was talking to me , and he said , he said ah how , how you getting on over there , and he went yeah , yeah , it 's alright , you know , but it 's not where I want to be , you know , away from me family . |
| 7 | Where I have to be . |
| 8 | The natural justification of my choice between the fruit would be something like ‘ The peach looked delicious ’ , which conveys the full information that I expected to be responding in accord with ‘ Be aware ’ until the last trace of the flavour faded from my mouth . |
| 9 | I do n't rise sooner , because 't is the worst thing in the world for the complexion ; nat that I pretend to be a beau ; but a man must endeavour to look wholesome , lest he make so nauseous a figure in the side-bax , the ladies should be compelled to turn their eyes upon the play . |
| 10 | ‘ I have to admit that I prefer to be in charge of any given situation . |
| 11 | ‘ I could find nothing that I knew to be untrue . |
| 12 | And I found many details that I knew to be true . |
| 13 | Not that I mean to be cynical , but I do teach in an inner-city school ( where only Advanced Level pupils have textbooks — and they share — and where practical work involves half-a-dozen to a bunsen ) . |
| 14 | Here is a signature that I know to be genuine , on a document guaranteeing his overdraft of over twenty years ago , signed in my presence . |
| 15 | This does not mean that I like to be led by the nose , but only that I would appreciate a little extra guidance ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ I do n't know that I wish to be tossed anywhere as it happens . |
| 17 | That I take to be the situation here . |
| 18 | In my third year at Oxford , however , I noticed that I seemed to be getting clumsier , and I fell over once or twice for no apparent reason . |
| 19 | Going to another church ( of the Presbyterian Church of England ) my love of God came to be the central factor in my life , and aged almost sixteen I told my headmistress with quiet confidence that I wished to be ordained . |
| 20 | As soon as I set foot in there , I knew that I had to be involved somehow . |
| 21 | My mental health has deteriorated to such an extent that I had to be admitted to hospital and am currently on sedation . |
| 22 | A fierce aunt shocked me by telling me shyness is a form of rudeness and selfishness , and that I had to be the first to talk to two people . |
| 23 | In 1980 , coming back from a hospital in the States where I had been told that I ought to have an operation ( interestingly on my throat — it was as though all the tension caused by what I could not say was caught up there ) , I saw that I had to be free of this . |
| 24 | ‘ Now Bathsheba , ’ he said , laughing , ‘ you know very well that I had to be very careful , as a single man working for you , a good-looking young woman . |
| 25 | I was experiencing what he meant ; a new self-acceptance , a sense that I had to be this mind and this body , its vices and its virtues , and that I had no other chance or choice . |
| 26 | Ah but I believed if I 'm going to discuss or argue about anything as regarding that I had to be interested in it . |
| 27 | ‘ I knew that I had to be the best at everything if I was to haul my family out of the financial trouble they were in . |
| 28 | ‘ The variety of work which included anything from milk quotas to mortgage repossessions , meant that I had to be practical and adapt quickly . |
| 29 | ‘ Generally that I had to be convinced any person posed a risk — and to give a warning before I fired . ’ |
| 30 | Fortunately it became necessary for me to accompany the well-known Solveig 's Song on a dulcitone , which meant that I had to be close beside her in the wings . |