Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [prep] [be] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 My Lords , that concludes my analysis of what I perceive to be the important British cases but before seeking to draw conclusions therefrom I must refer to certain Commonwealth and American cases .
2 I would not want to return you to your female progenitor in what , from my briefings on human culture , I perceive to be an indecorous condition . ’
3 I want to be a rich young man , if wealth is what it takes to buy this feeling ; a young lord leaving the city after a night of riot …
4 I want to be a long distance lorry driver or one of those dispatch riders in London , that would be quite exciting .
5 I want to be a real poet .
6 I want to be a good horsewoman , if only to show my mother-in-law I can do it . ’
7 ‘ Well , I 've decided I want to be a proper writer .
8 I want to be a social worker so I could do something for these girls . ’
9 December I want to be the longest-serving manager under Peter Swales .
10 I want to be the best ’ she explains proudly , ‘ it does n't matter how long it takes . ’
11 ‘ I do n't think I have much else to prove … other than that I want to be the best player in the world .
12 I do n't want to be one of the best in the world , I want to be the best in the world , and everyone I come up against is a stepping stone to me getting over that bridge .
13 Why are n't I number one ? ’ , adding , ‘ If I 'm in the game , I want to be the best . ’
14 Do you know how I want to be the Prime Minister of next year ?
15 And I 'd like to fight him because he 's undefeated and I want to be the first man to beat him .
16 ‘ And I want him to win because he 's unbeaten and I want to be the first man to take the H out of Holyfield . ’
17 But I want to be the first man to achieve Football League status after a full playing career .
18 He 'd just become the first Briton to win two world titles on foreign soil and added : ‘ I want to be the first British fighter to win three world titles at different weights . ’
19 Martin Luther King once said , ‘ I want to be the white man 's brother , not his brother-in-law .
20 It 's not that I want to be the ideal woman ; I 'd simply like to be able to walk down a street and not even think about it .
21 I 'm not here to be flattered I want to be the oldest .
22 I want to be an old-fashioned wife to you , Nicolo . ’
23 In this way he saw that Man was truly made in the Image of God : ‘ The primary Imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception , and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM ’ ( Biographia Literaria , xiii ) .
24 They exchanged what he describes , with lowered eyes , as ‘ the usual preliminaries ’ , which I imagine to be a sordid discussion about the cost of one swift and surely emotionally unsatisfying and physically degrading copulation , and proceeded on their way up the now rapidly dusking street — one of them bright with the low cunning of unscrupulous greed and the other already stepping into the heavy gloom of unavoidable and deserved shame or guilt .
25 I hope to be a strong and enthusiastic supporter of the Government and I am going to stay on as a MP . ’
26 ‘ And may I ask if she will be so delighted to see me because I happen to be a male member of the human race … ? ’
27 I happen to be a major shareholder in the station now , so that makes me your boss if you want it spelling out to you .
28 I happen to be a former Strathclyde councillor .
29 As my aunt would say , I happen to be a sensible lass .
30 I happen to be the only person here who believes we have to make a response at the European level , ’ Mr Radice said .
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