Example sentences of "[pers pn] to [be] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I made love to you , and then , even more devastating , discovered I was the first , that you 'd chosen me to be your first lover , it was like … capturing the castle , stealing the Crown Jewels … ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Nahum 's asked me to be his best man … |
| 3 | Why he should hold them , why he should so strangely realize them , and above all , why he should have chosen me to be his solitary audience of one , remained a total mystery . |
| 4 | While hating him she had loved him , and , loving him , had no shame in wanting him to be her only mate . |
| 5 | Merthyr want him to be their chief executive , masterminding their bid for Football League status — much as he did at Barnet . |
| 6 | Since some people regard them as the ultimate madness and evil they deem it to be their moral right to break laws , mostly in a non-violent manner , as a form of protest . |
| 7 | Puritans also believed it to be their pressing duty to agitate for the introduction of godly reforms into the church . |
| 8 | He wanted it to be his personal team . |
| 9 | When those who believe in war refuse to do their duty , that is , when they refuse to fight for some reason or other , Gandhi feels it to be his moral duty to enlighten them as to their responsibilities as soldiers , while at the same time presenting them with the alternative path of ahi sā . |
| 10 | Magee also received the impression that the man felt it to be his moral duty to warn a responsible person who might be able to do something about it . |
| 11 | The black-and-white photograph of Darlington body-builder Mr David Brown had not won any prizes but the current European Portrait Photographer of the Year declared it to be his overall favourite . |
| 12 | Barbarossa , as we have seen , believed it to be his holy duty to weld crown and church together . |