Example sentences of "[subord] i [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | where I hope to be forgiven |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Until I 'm safe in my grave — where I long to be , let me tell you ! — I am still mistress here . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | A piece of land where I happened to be born . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Where I have to be . |
| 8 | Although I admit to being intrigued as to how far you were prepared to go to achieve your ends . ’ |
| 9 | Fine , I 'm better than I deserve to be . |
| 10 | Erm one interesting point about overtime and temps er generally is that temps apparently unl are costing us around about fourteen K with overheads which is a lot more than I believed to be the case . |
| 11 | Having said this , let me try to make clear what I do not mean to be claiming in this section , lest I be taken to be arguing for more than I intend to be . |
| 12 | In fact , it was earlier than I wanted to be in front , but then he galloped on in his stride all the way to the line . |
| 13 | I do n't want him to worry , so I try to be bright and keep going . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I do n't like my own company so I like to be in a show . |
| 15 | If the race had been over 62 metres then I felt I would have won , but there are no championships at this distance so I had to be content with second place . |
| 16 | " So I pretended to be ill and went to bed . |
| 17 | The lights I work under can get really hot and tend to dry it out so I have to be extra careful . |
| 18 | After having amassed around 200 hours on the Corsair since purchasing it in 1982 , the novelty of flying this beast has not diminished : ‘ Today I feel that every flight in the Corsair is as exciting as the first , mainly because with the Corsair you can not afford to be complacent , as the aircraft will sometimes bite back , so I have to be alert all the time while I am flying ’ . |
| 19 | I 'd promised my mother I 'd buy her some new central-heating , and the only time it could be fitted was the next week , so I needed to be home for Monday when the workmen came round . |
| 20 | I also have clothes entered , so I need to be there . ’ |
| 21 | Q What do I do if I wish to be excused attendance at School ? |
| 22 | " I could n't have a worse offer if I lived to be a hundred . |
| 23 | Something which , if I lived to be two hundred years old then went and announced it at St Paul 's Cross , would rock the very throne of England and scandalise the courts of Europe ! |
| 24 | If I wished to be cruel about the discussion this far , I would suggest that it has the evasive character of much comparative writing . |
| 25 | I 'd go mad if I had to be tidy as well as everything else . |
| 26 | and there was another one across the way and she was deteriorating , she was getting nervous right there , see if I had to be brought away you know |
| 27 | On orders from the new Earl , my visits to the house were to be permitted only if I agreed to be supervised . |
| 28 | MY later visits to Althorp were allowed only if I agreed to be supervised |
| 29 | I could go to chapel if I agreed to be confirmed when I was older . |
| 30 | I must also apologize if I seemed to be trying to put you off them . |