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 . |