Example sentences of "[pers pn] to [be] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At length she asked , ‘ Am I to be content with that snippet of intelligence : ‘ Sir George likes me ’ ? ’ |
| 2 | Ought I to be fearful for my life ? ’ |
| 3 | Am I to be interested in you or not ? ’ |
| 4 | Her mother said it was all nerves , but what had she to be nervy about ? |
| 5 | He said formally , ‘ I would like you to be present at the boatyard tomorrow morning . ’ |
| 6 | I wanted you to learn everything ; I did n't want you to be poor like my sisters . |
| 7 | ‘ We shall know if that is the case and we shall expect you to be late for our appointment . |
| 8 | ‘ Whatever the uncertainties the last few weeks may have brought I want you to be certain of this — our work together will continue unchanged , ’ she told the 40 charities of which she is patron . |
| 9 | We want you to be efficient in your studies . |
| 10 | ‘ I want you to be nice to him . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's only natural for you to be ignorant about such matters . |
| 12 | ‘ I want you to be proud of me , Agnes . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm a bit of an outcast , love , ’ he said , ‘ and I do n't want you to be involved with all that . ’ |
| 14 | But you know as well as I do he meant you to be involved in a serious attempt at marriage . |
| 15 | But it is a means to more power , which in turn enables you to be choosy about your scripts . |
| 16 | It 's wrong for you to be alone at a time like this . ’ |
| 17 | No , it was just , she did n't want you to be competitive about it . |
| 18 | The objective helps you to be clear about what you have to do in a bid to get it to come true . |
| 19 | I do n't want you to be ashamed of me . |
| 20 | To reduce the number of words : ( a ) Select the words which seem to you to be important for retaining the important messages of the document key words , points of understanding or argument , main points in support . |
| 21 | That 's to say , she had firm features and smartly cut , possibly dyed hair obviously kept under regular control , and she behaved as if she had known a time when she turned every head and expected you to be aware of this too . |
| 22 | You do n't have to start at a attitude , but yeah , if you 're watching for them , and you start to see signals , you need to be aware of these , because that 's really the situation , is n't it , that 's why I think you to be aware of influence . |
| 23 | But I want you to be careful of one thing . |
| 24 | ‘ I would n't want you to be frightened at night , ’ I said . |
| 25 | ‘ And there 's no need for you to be frightened of anything . |
| 26 | I ca n't bear you to be frightened of me . ’ |
| 27 | But I must ask you to be patient with my navigation in these uncharted waters . |
| 28 | There is a small officers ' annex in the village itself for me to be impotent at , and it is on this hygienic apartment that we increasingly depend . |
| 29 | That would seem to me to be contrary to government guidance and the wording needs tidying up to reflect that if that is not what is actually meant by the revision and by the wording of the policy . |
| 30 | As honest and honourable Russian writers , they seemed to me to be emblematic in some way . |