Example sentences of "i am [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am delighted that he has chosen to introduce a Bill on nurse prescribing and I am honoured to be associated with it as one of its sponsors . |
| 2 | ‘ I am determined to be a healing factor who brings people together . |
| 3 | I am determined to be happy despite your scolding ! ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I am determined to be involved for my country and my own career satisfaction . |
| 5 | I think I am beginning to be very much afraid of what Raynor is taking me to . |
| 6 | ‘ I will never stir from your side , when I am suffered to be near you . |
| 7 | We are settled on the southern shore , called Belmont for the amenity of the situation , within a stout stockade I am causing to be built . |
| 8 | ‘ The only difference between us is that I am trying to be , and you ca n't help it . ’ |
| 9 | When I am trying to be stricter than usual with myself , I plan a really busy week so that I am out more than is customary . |
| 10 | So maybe I am adding things on as ‘ an afterthought ’ , but , if I ca n't be a designer , I am trying to be a good technician . |
| 11 | I am trying to be as kind as possible to the Minister . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , I am trying to be , ’ said Suleiman modestly . |
| 13 | Although my brief has been to examine animal communication , I am bound to be asked whether the Darwinian approach can add anything to understanding the connections between what animals do and what we do . |
| 14 | Barnes , 30 , added : ‘ I knew fairly soon that I was out of the Test match and now I am struggling to be fit for the Taranaki game on Wednesday . |
| 15 | ‘ I am interested in journalism , ’ said Thomas , who is staying with the Kilcran family in Dale Road , Darlington , ‘ but I am training to be a teacher . |
| 16 | ‘ There 's no doubt I can learn a lot about racing from Alain and I will be looking forward to that opportunity — but I have to say also that I am aiming to be my own man . ’ |
| 17 | She was a mutilated machine , and besides she has already forgotten him : I am meant to be comforted by that ? |
| 18 | Earlier this summer he similarly told the Observer 's Mark Frankland ‘ The more I am forced to be active in politics , the more I enjoy doing theatre . ’ |
| 19 | I am expected to be present where there is beer flowing . ’ |
| 20 | I am considered to be fairly outgoing but as a teenager I was painfully shy . |
| 21 | I loved him ; that is why I am allowed to be harsh . |
| 22 | I am waiting to be bathed in film . |
| 23 | ‘ I am waiting to be next ’ , wrote Baxter , ‘ the door is open . |
| 24 | ‘ You are my guest and I am attempting to be nice to you . |
| 25 | So I am encouraged in my perhaps natural naïveté , I am encouraged to be simpliste , by my knowledge of the value of complication in fogging up the real issues in politics . |
| 26 | At one point North suddenly remarked , ‘ Well , I 'm not worried , soon I am going to be back commanding a Marine battalion . |
| 27 | If I am an undergraduate , the two basic areas of quantum mechanics and X-ray crystallography are not covered and I wonder whether I am going to be examined on chemistry and human psychology ? |
| 28 | You know I am going to be a doctor , Mufundishi . |
| 29 | ‘ I am going to be in plaster for two months , ’ he said . |
| 30 | ‘ So do you think I am going to be afraid of Lennox Lewis ? |