Example sentences of "[subord] i [vb past] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | A piece of land where I happened to be born . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | " So I pretended to be ill and went to bed . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | " I could n't have a worse offer if I lived to be a hundred . |
| 10 | 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 ! |
| 11 | If I wished to be cruel about the discussion this far , I would suggest that it has the evasive character of much comparative writing . |
| 12 | I 'd go mad if I had to be tidy as well as everything else . |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | On orders from the new Earl , my visits to the house were to be permitted only if I agreed to be supervised . |
| 15 | MY later visits to Althorp were allowed only if I agreed to be supervised |
| 16 | I could go to chapel if I agreed to be confirmed when I was older . |
| 17 | I must also apologize if I seemed to be trying to put you off them . |
| 18 | If I wanted to be pretentious , I might call this paper an investigation of the sociology of literature . |
| 19 | Before I could say , ‘ You bastards ’ , they were specks in the mist as I huddled from the blizzard behind a boulder wondering if I wanted to be sick yet . |
| 20 | If I wanted to be happy I should have avoided the pub altogether , or at least had nothing stronger than mineral water . |
| 21 | I was at the Edward II wrap party and someone asked me if I wanted to be in a film . |
| 22 | A deaf therapist said : ‘ They felt that if I wanted to be on the course , I 'd got to manage the same as everyone else . |
| 23 | If I wanted to be a doctor or a lawyer , I could be one tomorrow . |
| 24 | Beatrice described his assaults in her fluent , showy style , the nights when Modigliani came home drunk : ‘ If I happened to be drunk too , there was a great scene ! |
| 25 | He would burst into the office singing , and if I happened to be there he would rush over and ruffle my hair , and exclaim , ‘ Here she is , the wee lassie ! |
| 26 | Well it was a town then but since then it 's been made a city , you see , and I got to know all kinds of people and one gentleman came in there , used to come every evening and write a book and er , I used to look after him if I happened to be that end and er , you see , and then he 'd say , oh just an exchange you know about the weather and just in general thing and then I 'd leave him and he 'd get on with his writing and one day he said to me . |
| 27 | ‘ The best of it was that the farmer — Mr Harris — said that if I proved to be right , he 'd call me in again , especially as Mr Jarvis had said that my fees were moderate . |
| 28 | I felt like I had to be in a group . ’ |
| 29 | I did n't have time to talk cos I had to be here for nine . |
| 30 | cos I wanted to be looking at me plans . |