Example sentences of "[vb past] i [vb past] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When I got here , ’ he said expressionlessly , ‘ I realised I needed to be in love with more than just a city . |
| 2 | What made I wanted to be a policeman ? |
| 3 | ‘ I found I had to be very firm with her , or she 'd have run rings around me , and how would she learn ? |
| 4 | I was 5′ 10½&in in height in bare feet and weighed soaking wet no more than 12½ stone and since I played in the park , usually at open side wing forward , and since I played against genuinely big men , it therefore followed I had to be galvanically quick . |
| 5 | ‘ When he discovered I wanted to be an actor he felt deeply responsible and thought I must be stopped . ’ |
| 6 | I would have some idiot life in another country because some medieval cleric in Iran decided I had to be killed . ’ |
| 7 | I can remember the moment I decided I wanted to be a politician really quite well . |
| 8 | All of our group wanted to go to the 2ème Régiment Étranger de Parachutistes , and I decided I wanted to be a high-altitude free-fall parachutist . |
| 9 | I decided I wanted to be received as a Methodist . |
| 10 | Erm , went , decided I wanted to be on the sort of management side . |
| 11 | ‘ I felt I wanted to be part of it . |
| 12 | So once I had passed through the obligatory outskirts of post-war , multi-storey housing estates and entered a labyrinth of blackened buildings in canyon-like streets with traffic jammed solid , I knew I had to be somewhere near the town centre . |
| 13 | ‘ I knew I had to be tolerant of any mechanical faults which were bound to surface during the year , ’ he says . |
| 14 | I was about fourteen and , I just knew I had to be a musician . |
| 15 | ‘ At the time I had no real plans but just knew I wanted to be in a group . |
| 16 | I always knew I wanted to be a performer , and a performer gets to do whatever they want , so I started practising early . |
| 17 | ‘ It was all sad paranoia , completely in my own head , ’ he continues , ‘ but I really thought I had to be somebody different . |
| 18 | I think I thought I wanted to be part of that companionship too but knew it would conclude with my entry But that did n't have to happen because he was closing the kitchen door behind him as I arrived in the passage . |
| 19 | In order to have my clothing coupons replaced I had to be vouched for by a responsible person , and Leslie 's uncle , who was a K.C. and Sheriff-Substitute of Fife and Kinross , kindly did this for me . |
| 20 | She looked me over , said I seemed to be a nice girl and announced that she had just the job for me — taking her goats out for a walk ! |
| 21 | I said I wanted to be best man , I said I wanted a church wedding . |
| 22 | ‘ I thought I said I wanted to be alone . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ In my last year at school another teacher roared with laughter when I said I wanted to be a professional footballer . |
| 24 | Jim said I appeared to be : George had been happy with a metal fence . |