Example sentences of "i [verb] be [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found being introduced to people individually , as they arrived , much easier than going into a room full of new babies and it was good to share experiences . |
| 2 | She said , ‘ All I want is to speak to one of the doctors . ’ |
| 3 | All I want is to get to bed as soon as possible . ’ |
| 4 | I 'd been invited to dinner too , but declined . |
| 5 | Cos that 's why I did n't get any when I got my last prescription because I 'd been trying to just sort of even take one |
| 6 | and Peter came in the morning , I never thought anything I 'd been listening to the radio , I heard there was a big accident on the road , a car accident |
| 7 | There was the beer keg I 'd been tied to and the length of wire I 'd probably been tied with lay on the floor . |
| 8 | I read everything I could find about France ( since France was my dream country , where I felt I 'd been meant to be born and grow up … ) and developed a particular passion for the French Revolution , reading all the Scarlet Pimpernel books , the story of the first Madame Tussaud , forced to model the guillotined heads , and everything that I could find that would bring it all to life . |
| 9 | I told him I 'd been talking to Richie . |
| 10 | A lot of them related to the data I 'd been passing but also he 'd want to know who I 'd been talking to . |
| 11 | ‘ She was complaining at not being able to get through because my number was engaged and I said I 'd been talking to you . |
| 12 | After I 'd been talking to him about leaving . |
| 13 | I 'd been talking to someone about the effects of music , cos there 's a couple of court cases going on . |
| 14 | ‘ No , you came here wanting to know what I 'd been saying to Mr Kronweiser today . ’ |
| 15 | I began to forget why I 'd been attracted to him in the first place . ’ |
| 16 | I often thought if I 'd been married to Finn and I 'd had a gun handy , I 'd 've widowed myself more than once . ’ |
| 17 | The lessons of A Course In Miracles provide many wonderful affirmations such as — ‘ There is nothing to fear ’ , ‘ I could see peace instead of this ’ , ‘ All that I give is given to myself , ‘ All things I think I see reflect ideas ’ , ‘ Let me be still and listen to the truth ’ , ‘ Light and joy and peace abide in me ’ , ‘ Today I will judge nothing that occurs ’ , and ‘ The past is over . |
| 18 | And it would be helpful for councillor I would say that I know that there are a third of our members and from the program committees for capital expenditure which I suspect is going to be to excess of the five hundred thousand pounds per year which we actually have . |
| 19 | We are restricted somewhat by time , because I want to get everybody back in the main auditorium to listen to what I know is going to be a fantastic lecture by Professor Don , er from Baltimore , which I would certainly recommend that everybody go and see . |
| 20 | like Alligator Gun for example I know is coming to the , to the Kings up the road here quite soon and then it 's going to Glasgow later on , and I keep thinking every time this sort of thing , thing 's happening I keep thinking we could be dealing with these |
| 21 | The working groups are currently on working on that , and they , my colleagues I assume are talking to the the officers of the Social Services about that , what is happening , but the final outcome has yet to appear . |
| 22 | The next thing I remember is coming to on the canal bank , and a man bending over me asking if I was all right . |
| 23 | And I remember being called to Caernarfon once , during the time , asking me why did I have such a lot of surplus of points . |
| 24 | My wife Pam has been for some time aware that I have been having an on-going relationship with Suzannah , who I believe is known to some of you . |
| 25 | Why could n't I have been born to be successful and brainy ? |
| 26 | I thought I 'd better do all my jobs which I thought was going to be spread across the d the day . |
| 27 | Merchanting er , is the buying and selling of materials not the production of materials , and erm , I was probably the first person from this area , in the leather trade , to go to China and we started to do quite a large business with China , so that immediately I was on my own , the first big operation I took was to go to China and make very substantial purchases of pigskin leather . |
| 28 | Anyway we 're going to go for trap two , Smoky Amber here , now she 's a bitch that is really , I think 's going to be something special over a longer trip , erm you know a longer distance , but she is only a March eighty nine so she 's not two yet . |
| 29 | The point 's that I think is trying to be made is that there are a lot of people here tonight who do wish to express an opinion and that opinion is not necessarily formulated in question form . |
| 30 | You 'll see that we have attached a diagram er which shows the location of the traffic counts that Mr I think is referring to in table two . |