Example sentences of "i [vb base] be to " in BNC.
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| 1 | And a good thing as I say is to just erm highlight the stuff that you want if you 've |
| 2 | We are determined to make it work — the last thing I want is to be a laughing stock among local farmers if I fail . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ What I want is to be in charge of myself , to decide what I will or will not do . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ All I want is to be able to go out and play with my friends , ’ she says . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's so wonderful — all I want is to be with her and I get terribly possessive . |
| 6 | ‘ He ca n't hold my grandmother 's misguided behaviour against me when all I want is to be part of the family , to know I belong . ’ |
| 7 | and all I want is to type down there , cos that 's all I do |
| 8 | All I seek is to be judged on my record and the record of this group . |
| 9 | The explicit arguments of which I know are to my mind hopeless . |
| 10 | All I ask is to be left to get on with my work , and enough support to make it possible . |
| 11 | I love making , I love doing , I love being to the full , I love everything which is not sitting and watching and copying and dead at heart . |
| 12 | Something I wrote on Nov. 7th — ‘ I love being to the full , I love everything which is not sitting and watching . ’ |
| 13 | County Councillor , Councillor on my right , I think is to be congratulated on the work he has done with County Highways on our behalf , and has written to District Council recommending refusal . |
| 14 | Our roads are in a mess and anything that will speed up improving that situation I think is to be welcomed . |
| 15 | My biggest fantasy I think was to be a sort of assistant , a nurse , holding Boy 's hand while O worked on him . |
| 16 | Beautiful though your age is , many though the intellects that adorn it , and ugly though my age is , cruel many of its leaders , I believe that the period from which I come is to be preferred to yours in this respect . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've been to fifteen funerals of my friends this year . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've been to something like two dozen breweries in Belgium . |
| 19 | ‘ I go to flamenco classes , collect pictures of elaborate dance costumes and I 've been to lots of shows . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I 've been to that riding-stable — Angela 's sister Jennifer and I went hacking one day when I stayed the weekend there . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've been to Appleby , ’ I said , ‘ to the gypsy horse fair . ’ |
| 22 | I 've been to the open-air theatre on the island every year since it opened , and I always tell people that you 've never really seen Shakespeare until you 've seen it on Brownsea . |
| 23 | The weekly motoring experience of Mr Dempsey ( ‘ We 're in it together ’ , 28 October ) presumably consists of a trip to Tesco 's in a car covered with ‘ I 've been to Blackpool ’ stickers and furry dice dangling from the mirror . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've been to a party in the village of Sutton , and I 'm on my way home . ’ |
| 25 | It 's the closest I 've been to my ideal live setup , really . |
| 26 | I 've been to Brentwoods today to talk about another one . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I 've had a most interesting day , ’ he said , ‘ I 've been to the Balcombe Street siege . ’ |
| 28 | The next thing is , especially if they 're Terrans , they say , I 've been to the Moon . |
| 29 | I 've been to the mainland to report it . |
| 30 | For a start , I will travel and go places I 've not seen , and return to places I 've been to but not really seen because of the tennis . |