Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [vb pp] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first meeting takes place this week and I am asked to make a presentation to the Committee which was set up by the minister of finance . ’ |
| 2 | As part of my degree course I am required to make a study of the impact of the General Strike of 1926 on Alton and the surrounding area . |
| 3 | Do they take grandparents — or shall I be wanted to wheel a pram ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm determined to have a go , ’ she said as she left . |
| 5 | I 'm tempted , I 'm I 'm I 'm tempted to have a word with Mick . |
| 6 | So I 'm bound to feel a bit low , are n't I ? |
| 7 | I 've recorded a lot of stuff with song writers whose work I like , but I 'll probably do a cover version as my first single because , as a TV presented I 'm bound to get a lot of flak at first . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ First you try to disarm me by offering to pay half the fare and now you 're telling me I 'm allowed to despise a criminal . ’ |
| 9 | If I were invited to make a criticism of primary school teachers within an international setting it would be to suggest that our expectation of children 's ability is too low . |
| 10 | I am quite aware it would take a far wiser head than mine to answer such a question , but if I were forced to hazard a guess , I would say that it is the very lack of obvious drama or spectacle that sets the beauty of our land apart . |
| 11 | Inevitably I was destined to become a zoologist in later life . |
| 12 | On 16th February 1991 whilst my husband was serving in the Gulf on Operation Granby , I was invited to attend a function at the Corporals Mess ’ — in a particular regiment which , of course , I shall not mention — ’ which I did attend with some of my friends . |
| 13 | A week later I was invited to take a look at the finished model , discovering then to my horror they had reproduced my sketch to the letter . |
| 14 | Some weeks after returning from my exploits in Alaska and Siberia , I was invited to give a lecture on the trip to the Overseas League meeting in the Empress Hotel , Victoria . |
| 15 | In 1989 I was invited to become a member of Academia Europaea ( European Academy ) . |
| 16 | Shortly after I left the public sector again , I was invited to chair a seminar at the Civil Service Staff College at Sunningdale comparing being an accounting officer in the Civil Service and being chairman of a public company and appearing before an annual general meeting . |
| 17 | One summer I was invited to chair a Brains Trust at the Scottish Lawyers ' annual conference at Aviemore . |
| 18 | I was called to make a statement and later found that I had won the medal . |
| 19 | In particular , I was stimulated to exhume a cutting from the Daily Telegraph of 23 October 1980 . |
| 20 | But if I was pressed to make a choice , apart from Coldingham Loch , I would have to admit that the Whiteadder River is my favourite Border stream , and I confess that I have a vested interest in Whiteadder . |
| 21 | Of course the horse named Bess , which I was given had a mind of its own , since it would always be eating and when it was not it only plodded along . |
| 22 | One incident in which I was involved followed a report from the pilot of an incoming merchant ship entering the river Thames . |
| 23 | I was fascinated to see a friend train her horses so that she could pick up and clean out front and hind feet from the same side , working in order of near fore , off fore , near hind , off hind . |
| 24 | But I was determined to land a fly over that trout 's nose , so I waded out , regardless of the freezing water , soaked to the knees . |
| 25 | Throughout the next two years I had lost interest in the game I would wait a few months and then in a space of a week I would go and have a few games it was n't until 1993 early January that I started playing regularly again I was determined to get a handicap and play in a few competitions sometime that year . |
| 26 | The story starts one cold night in January when I was asked to attend a staff meeting for members of the Chelmsford Local Duke of Edinburgh award leadership team . |
| 27 | ‘ After I had agreed terms with Ardiles , I was asked to take a pay cut before I was even on their payroll . |
| 28 | From that sketch I was asked to do a painting , ’ she recalled . |
| 29 | ‘ I was asked to deliver a threat . |
| 30 | There the letter breaks off , and I find no other reference to this ‘ most interesting , extraordinary and traumatic ’ event until summer 1976 , five years later , when I was asked to write a summary of my coming out . |