Example sentences of "[noun sg] i [vb past] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I feel fine and in any case I wanted to be here in person and not have to watch you on television . |
| 2 | For an instant I seemed to be staring into smoke . |
| 3 | A little late in the day as it happened , but they did and one of the things that helped was the fact that as an Irish citizen I had to be entered on the aliens ’ register by the local police and that required a passport photo . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ When I was a girl I wanted to be an actress . |
| 5 | The only place I seemed to be able to reach you was in bed . |
| 6 | At the time I had no other reason to come home , but when I heard my mother only had a short time left it was the only place I wanted to be . ’ |
| 7 | It 's work I have some familiarity with because by accident I happened to be the external examiner of the lad who did it , Peter Williamson . |
| 8 | When I was alone with the General I asked to be transferred . |
| 9 | I sent two samples , one of dust particles , the other a piece of waste I believed to be asbestos , to Dr Martin Brewer in London for examination . |
| 10 | As I left the room I seemed to be in a school and I saw many children in the hall and I seemed to be late for a class . |
| 11 | Anyway , one day I started to be sick in reaction to some drugs , and this guy jumped out of bed — the nurses were busy . |
| 12 | Storm Jameson , a woman novelist active in the peace movement , later recalled : ‘ For some years after 1933 I lived in equivocal amity with pacifists and combative supporters of the League of Nations , adjusting my feelings , in good and bad faith , to the person I happened to be with . |
| 13 | By the second night I had to be scraped from the floor and dragged two miles to the only shop in the vicinity to buy something which could pass as edible . |
| 14 | Any tasks not completed by the due date on the ‘ to do list ’ can be automatically carried over to the reminders list , a facility I found to be very useful . |
| 15 | Any tasks not completed by the due date on the ‘ to do list ’ can be automatically carried over to the reminders list , a facility I found to be very useful . |
| 16 | Snowdon I found to be a Scottish mountain transposed to North Wales . |
| 17 | ‘ On one occasion , I rang his home and a woman I assumed to be his wife answered . |
| 18 | and well I 've , I 've had a sort of split feeling I wanted to be here |
| 19 | Through George Wigg I became reasonably close to Richard Crossman who consulted me on a number of occasions — I have already described the Spectator libel case — but who , I must confess , turned out to be a disappointment to me , since the reputation he had earned for more than occasional unreliability I found to be entirely justified . |
| 20 | Christopher Gray , one of the small number of English members of the SI , is the third commentator I found to be not entirely sympathetic . |
| 21 | But she had insisted , and although the room was warm , and the kitchen stove had already been made up for the night , I had gone — yet it was a strange experience to me , and rather a frightening one , to have been persuaded by someone near to me into doing even so small a thing I felt to be hazardous . ) |
| 22 | ‘ I was under pressure from my grandfather to become a teacher and that 's the last thing I wanted to be . |
| 23 | When I calmed down I realized I was defending an organization I refused to be in , though I had nothing good to say for the one I 'd left it for . |
| 24 | And that 's when my life changed , that 's when I was let into the world I wanted to be in and got paid to do something creative , which I 'd always wanted to do . ’ |
| 25 | In the end I pretended to be worried that I had left my bicycle lamp on and dashed outside to relieve myself in a flower-bed . |
| 26 | ‘ An example : the Dalek city I wanted to be a complex structure of low metal towers , ramps and spires , quite detailed , possibly with some kind of perimeter wall or fence surrounding it . |
| 27 | When I got out of high school I wanted to be a caddie , so I got some bags at my local club . |
| 28 | So the only way I seemed to be able to keep Arthur was to become dependent on him . ’ |
| 29 | There was no way I wanted to be robbed again and I determined if I had to stand in a queue it would be with this chain in my hand . |
| 30 | I had this idea I had to be civilised , and wait until I 'd obtained spoken as well as physical consent from you — and then spent days regretting it ! |