Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | What began as an exotic flirtation with the Other , a pop foray into a perceived Heart of Darkness , soon turned into a full-blown dance initiative in those irony-clad years of 1980–81 , with everyone from Japan to ABC to Cabaret Voltaire to Spandau Ballet to Heaven 17 conspiring to venture a white funk whose snappiness was a jeer at the indies , a white funk that would saunter easily into the charts and every other public place and , with their manifestos , make them better places to be . |
| 2 | The Gnostic teacher , Cerinthus , was active in Asia Minor at the time when John wrote , and he taught that the heavenly Christ came upon the human Jesus only at his baptism , and left him before his passion : the union between them only seemed to be real -actually it was merely temporary . |
| 3 | The actual process of putting them together proved to be an awful lot more difficult than we first thought . |
| 4 | Only 20 players can be named in the squad for the finals and Kernaghan said : ‘ I badly want to be part it if we get there . ’ |
| 5 | The one I mostly chat to is the biology teacher . |
| 6 | But the one I eventually went to was very good . |
| 7 | But I so need to be walking up the stairs and pushing open the studio door , and seeing him at his bench , looking over his shoulder at me , as if he 's not in the least interested to see who it is . |
| 8 | Another ludicrous character in this chapter is the cheshire cat , who I personally find to be one of the nicest characters . |
| 9 | Von Sophias Jonnifer , who I personally consider to be capable of winning anywhere in the world . |
| 10 | Theda asked , adding , ‘ I only wish to be adequately prepared if she should question me . ’ |
| 11 | I only wanted to be kind to the Dust Baby . |
| 12 | I should be quite content , I thought , to live here for ever , smelling the cooking and the lavatory and the dust , looking forward to my two slices of bread at lunch or tea and my Red Cross stew at supper , thinking about all the books I am going to read and how nice it is going to be when I can speak German and Russian fluently ; I only want to be allowed to live , and enjoy the sun when it shines , and wait for it when it goes behind a cloud . |
| 13 | I only want to be with Nat , Aldo , Jimmy and Ben . |
| 14 | He 's only said these things , sort of , trying out to see because he does n't he does n't know if very much , oh it 's so sad Brenda , he said to me we were talking on Wednesday night , I think and he looked wistfully at me and he said I only want to be taught . |
| 15 | I only want to be taught . |
| 16 | I particularly like the way the markedly understated look of the combo belies its facilities ; I much prefer to be surprised by a product 's performance . |
| 17 | ‘ And to think I might have sailed up it had I not chosen to be independent . |
| 18 | I just had to be patient , it was one of those things . |
| 19 | Only time would tell now whether it would go without mishap I just had to be patient . |
| 20 | But the important thing was that I just wanted to be free . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Like Grete , I just try to be the same person . |
| 22 | ‘ When I 'm with Tommy I just try to be like him , ’ Iain had told the police . |
| 23 | It 's as if they think I 'm really Firmin and then from time to time I just pretend to be this white man called Charlie . |
| 24 | ‘ I just happen to be the exception . ’ |
| 25 | They just put me up for it and I just happened to be about at the time . |
| 26 | ‘ I just happened to be around some great players and be part of a great team ’ , he said with typical modesty . |
| 27 | She was going through a traumatic divorce at the time and it was obvious she needed someone to talk to and I just happened to be around . |
| 28 | I just happened to be seen by a lot of people every night . |
| 29 | ‘ I just happened to be interested , that 's all , ’ she replied . |
| 30 | ‘ I just happened to be with Nick Simpkin . |