Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The stories read as distillations of the life or experience of ordinary people ( working people , lower-middle-class and also the ‘ emarginated ’ , the young , the unemployed , the old ) plucked from a grey background where nothing appears to be going on . |
| 2 | where I hope to be forgiven |
| 3 | To come somewhere like this would have been better , somewhere where I had to be in at a certain time , where I could n't have certain people come in . |
| 4 | Until I 'm safe in my grave — where I long to be , let me tell you ! — I am still mistress here . ’ |
| 5 | He took us to the Þingvellir National park where the clouds parted and the sun shone on square kilometres of snow that was so clean and pure it made me weep for all the time we had lost on the trip , and for the pleasure of being where I wanted to be . |
| 6 | A piece of land where I happened to be born . |
| 7 | But he was talking to me , and he said , he said ah how , how you getting on over there , and he went yeah , yeah , it 's alright , you know , but it 's not where I want to be , you know , away from me family . |
| 8 | Where I have to be . |
| 9 | One step , and she could be in his arms , where she craved to be . |
| 10 | Keepers discovered her desperately fighting for life at the West Midlands Safari Park where she had to be hand-reared before being transferred to the Kingsley wildlife sanctuary , Cheshire , where she takes every opportunity to hitch a ride from the resident Bull Terrier bitch . |
| 11 | ‘ But Christabel 's out on the edge , in the wind and the rain , where she wanted to be . |
| 12 | She was here , where she wanted to be . |
| 13 | ‘ They would do best to concentrate on technical software , rather than applications where you have to be in close touch with your customers , ’ he said . |
| 14 | It is , above all , something where you have to be utterly precise and there 's no warm up , you just go out there and do it and that 's very challenging . |
| 15 | I did not and could not touch you where you wanted to be touched . |
| 16 | You got here , are staying here where you wanted to be ! ’ |
| 17 | If you can imagine your goal , where you want to be in five years ' time , then you are already part of the way there . |
| 18 | However , in-flight service and experience do n't count for much if the plane is n't going where you want to be . |
| 19 | The book gives you a clear insight into the complexities of piloting a fast jet at low altitude , keeping tabs on exactly where you are and planning on the wing exactly where you want to be within an acceptable tolerance at a checkpoint of plus or minus five seconds . |
| 20 | selling and getting a result on that you see I 've covered a lot of stuff for you on that , I 've covered quite a bit with you on , er product knowledge , now would you say that you 're reasonably together there and where you want to be on product knowledge ? |
| 21 | The top five percent will go for that , I hope you wo n't , you 're not five percent , but some of you , you 're all find where you want to be , is n't it , where you want to see yourself . |
| 22 | This one-to-10 ratio makes the computer profession unlike law , architecture , medicine and even engineering , where you need to be registered and qualified before you start practising at all . |
| 23 | The same applies if you do creative work where you need to be sure you have the tools to accomplish dramatic effects . |
| 24 | So you 've got to take the initiative and be firm where you need to be with a company or with a farmer … and consider his needs , if they be economical , impracticable . |
| 25 | But we do say that its object [ has ] been gained , and that after all the stir and excitement , the inconvenience … we are back where we wished to be , and with the miners ' case under negotiation . |
| 26 | Maybe we should have solved our problems more quickly ( of course in a perfect world everyone always should ) , but better by far to have gone on and on , testing , probing , questioning and changing , until we finally had a solution which worked and could take us where we wanted to be . |
| 27 | Erm , we need to know what the position is now , and where we want to be , so , a lot of the influence is going , what change the influence is going to bring about . |
| 28 | This was achieved by utilising the sorting facilities of the database to focus the direction of the study on areas where there seemed to be potential for improvement . |
| 29 | If you charter from Corsica — where there seemed to be no real shortage — take as much extra as you can manage . |
| 30 | They describe some typical conversations in which comments from one person did not link in an expected way to preceding comments — where there seemed to be a very loose connection between what one person said and the next . |