Example sentences of "be [conj] i [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Remember Ma Christie , our Norwegian Pathfinder , who wondered at how his crew just happened to appear as though from some mystique of chance ; how Middleton said in effect " my crew is the best in the Command … leave them be or I return to the Main Force " . |
| 2 | I said to that bloke today well how , how long am I gon na be before I go to court , he said it could be two years away |
| 3 | And I 'm I 'm when I wrote to Marion I said , er I 'm ge I am getting the most terrible withdrawal symptoms ! |
| 4 | When I handed over I did offer to come back and help , do a bit of walling for them , perhaps , but I did n't know then just how busy my life would be when I came to Cotherstone . |
| 5 | But you see , I just went to the education officer and I say , he , he ran it , he , it , it was , it was his responsibility the Guild 's were and I went to him about a Guild matter and I said oh , erm how I mentioned that I was working and he said well where are you working ? |
| 6 | All that can be said for certain is that I respond to all of it — vixen , trees , plants , birds , the lot — but it does not respond to me . ’ |
| 7 | This went smoothly and is a great improvement but in order to create the compressed drive and double the hard disk capacity the SuperStor program took my hard disk ( drive C : ) and seemed to create a compressed drive D : it then swaps drive D and drive C so that the compressed drive is now C : The result is that I seem to be locked out of my old drive D in Rom which has one or two useful bits on — like a hardware check program . |
| 8 | What it means is that I have to be with him , except when I 'm working , since he ca n't always take time to be with me . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ The point is that I want to be near you . ’ |
| 10 | Thank you right now a really clever thing then that you should know about is if I want to times that number by ten right . |
| 11 | so I mean she 's , she 's she 's and I said to her when when all the things were going wrong with I had to have a lot of chats with her and said well you you 've got to prove that you can rebound from this |
| 12 | that 's cos I said to him round the other way |
| 13 | So if we start pulling them about which is cos I said to her about the hall and if I do n't scrub it all off we 're gon na have to erm gon na have to do the hall and er I said we 've got to try to put it on because the walls are so ooh bitty you know what I mean ? |
| 14 | I , no , the reason I got that is cos I said to Nicola I 'm not working less than three pound , cos I 'm gon na over four pounds there . |
| 15 | I 'm I 'm I 'm it 's like I said to you I 'm not telling you to do it . |
| 16 | But this er American pilot , Commanding General , stands before this group with a great sense of humility and a , a sense of great honour , recognizing the only reason I 'm here is because I have to be the Commanding General . |
| 17 | But I considered myself to be unattractive , and in becoming so thin as to render myself totally undesirable sexually , I was saying , ‘ I may be unattractive , but this is because I choose to be this way . ’ |
| 18 | Cos like , it 's before I go to bed I I sort of get my , my organ out and |
| 19 | The only times I do not want to be a writer are when I want to be a painter , and the only times I want to be a painter are when I am taken by the cast or mobility on a person 's face . |
| 20 | well where was I ? , oh , must 've been when I went to the loo Have you had a drink Martin ? |
| 21 | The result of all this was that I returned to Europe and settled in Paris with her . |
| 22 | I chose residential care and so it was that I came to Le Court In September 1977 . |
| 23 | I think the other thing was that I wanted to be known as a musician rather than some other phenomenon other than a musician and I think that also had an effect on me too . |
| 24 | Thinking about this now , I know that what I was saying in wanting my periods back was that I wanted to be a woman , that I wanted and liked my female body , that my years of confusion and self-dislike were beginning to be over . |
| 25 | I did n't even know what it was until I got to the studio . ’ |
| 26 | As for the golf course , I had no idea how hilly Augusta National was until I went to The Masters , and there must be millions of people who still do n't know . " |
| 27 | It was because I went to a disco that he tried to commit suicide . |
| 28 | . Sir I am the present overseer but these things was before I came to the Parish . |
| 29 | And when I was when I got to New York , I was met by two first cousins from two different families er Bert who 's er er nephew of my my mother 's sister Laura Anne in in New York , and another one , William who 'd been very successful vice president of or something . |