Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] to be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was easy for me to pretend to be in love with the Princess . |
| 2 | ‘ Am I goin' to be by meself ? ’ asked Dolly in disgust . |
| 3 | ‘ What would I want to be in a stupid team for ? ’ |
| 4 | Right , but what you 've got the opportunity of doing now during being a life assurance sales person , with self-employed status if you like , with the benefits of being in a company like ours , is really thinking where do I want to be in five years ' time . |
| 5 | ‘ My dear fellow , it is but seldom that one has the pleasure of meeting a friend from the old days in Petersburg , but I chanced to be in Vienna recently , and have heard much about you from mutual acquaintances . |
| 6 | I intend to be at the harbour to meet them . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I intend to be like him , ’ Edmund told her . |
| 8 | Her father died when she was two , and , after education at the Bar Convent in York , she was courted at fourteen by the thirty-five-year-old Joseph Radcliffe : ‘ poor , little me ! … like a bird in a cage , I fluttered to be at liberty . ’ |
| 9 | MICHAEL WINNER and I ceased to be on speaking terms after I described him as a very average director who made very average movies . |
| 10 | I expected to be like a village . |
| 11 | Oh yes indeed , indeed , well only last week I said do need some flowers , come on Thursday they 're fresh , I said I want them now Lionel , I hate to be without flowers in the room and he said well have two for the price of one , he would insist that I had two bunches for the price of one . |
| 12 | I long to be with people I 've chosen . |
| 13 | ‘ How I long to be at home and have some plain food . |
| 14 | No matter how realistic and cautious I tried to be about changes at home , in my heart I only wanted reassurance that things would be as before . |
| 15 | It is therefore a subject on which I expect to be in continuing dialogue . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I promised to be in a certain place by this time tomorrow , and I intend to be there . |
| 18 | I want to be with you and still hope this will be possible one day . |
| 19 | ‘ I want to be with you — with him . ’ |
| 20 | Dad said , and it must have cost him a lot to say so little after he 'd been put down by me , ‘ I 've decided I want to be with Eva . ’ |
| 21 | I want to be with my friend Elaine . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I want to be with other people , Dulé . |
| 23 | " Because I want to be with you , looking at you every minute I possibly can . |
| 24 | And so erm the , the experience in w the work experience I get now I want to be with a , a definite view to get to , get in training |
| 25 | I want to be with you , really with you , inside you for hours on end , I 'm achin' for it . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I want to be with you for the rest of my life . |
| 27 | I want to be at the border by then and that 's two hundred and fifty miles after Tam . ’ |
| 28 | I want to be at my very best tonight . |
| 29 | According to Cognos ' ebullient senor vice president of R&D Ron Zambonini , porting from one Unix platform to another is a commercial decision only , since it 's not a technologically difficult move : ‘ I want to be on every Unix in the world . ’ |
| 30 | I like being with people , but there 's times when I want to be on my own . |