Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] [verb] [pron] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if I did not like you very much , I should still want you to be manageress of the Maison de Verveine in London . |
| 2 | Oh , God , but he must really love her to be able to lower himself to this . |
| 3 | The true collector should never allow himself to be beguiled into buying an unworthy copy of a book . |
| 4 | Field Marshal Lord Wavell was strong in his support for the S.A.S. He had commented that one should never allow oneself to be ‘ trammelled by the bonds of orthodoxy ’ . |
| 5 | We should never allow ourselves to be swayed by our feelings . |
| 6 | You must never allow yourself to be crowded out , neither must you retreat so far that you overstep the area boundary . |
| 7 | On the drive back he considered whether the man were guilty of something more heinous than drinking champagne with a rich young woman on an afternoon when his constituents might reasonably expect him to be in the House of Commons . |
| 8 | When the Vietnamese Revolutionary Youth League was formed by Ho in 1925 its nucleus consisted of Vietnamese terrorists , the Tam Tam Xa , who had already attempted the assassination of a French Governor-General on a state visit to Canton , and Canton became a staging-post for the return of young Vietnamese revolutionaries who might now declare themselves to be Marxists as well . |
| 9 | Much though we might sometimes like it to be otherwise , events unfold as they happen . |
| 10 | He 'll never allow himself to be taken alive . |
| 11 | After it 's all over , we 'll never allow ourselves to be separated again … |
| 12 | And of course , if you look at it er , logically , I mean , for a a woman to be tied up and kept in a room , you know , and kept prisoner all her life you could hardly expect her to be sane even if she did |
| 13 | You could hardly expect him to be ready to defend it , or give his life for it . |
| 14 | Those of you in the twelfth grade who are not graduating er we 'd also like you to be so come dressed nicely as well erm |
| 15 | In truth , she should be grateful to him for coming to her rescue — instead she could barely bring herself to be civil . |
| 16 | It would always be a secret : even if the doctor 's wife died and the doctor married Miss Lavant it would still be a secret about the child that had been born , because they 'd never want it to be known out of respect for the dead . |
| 17 | My thighs and bum — I 'd definitely like them to be a lot smaller . |
| 18 | But we could never bring ourselves to be bedded by them , though there was a little gypsy flower-girl with her gilded basket of faded carnations , stolen from a grave , who announced a sudden passion for Dana . |
| 19 | When , ultimately , they fail in their efforts to give up drink or drug use , they become exceedingly fearful and ashamed and may even believe themselves to be insane . |
| 20 | Generative linguists consider punctuation to be simply prosody and of relevance for the language — or they may simply believe it to be uninteresting . |
| 21 | ‘ The guy would obviously like you to be Senhora Haraldsen , ’ he said . |
| 22 | ‘ One would naturally expect him to be well fed . ’ |
| 23 | They could all swim like fish and occasionally , just for the hell of it , he and one or two of his braver friends would deliberately allow themselves to be cut off from their home bank by one of the smaller , less fearsome tides . |
| 24 | ‘ I would still prefer her to be a doctor or an engineer , ’ sighs Safiqua , who is the one who usually fields family criticism . |
| 25 | I had assumed he would still want me to be his wife , and wondered why he did not ask me . |
| 26 | And if this list of disasters was n't clear enough evidence of our marital discord , I 'm sure that our body language — scrutinised by a knowing psychologist — would further reveal us to be living distant and quite separate lives . |
| 27 | Such cases are rare , though the Queen would probably prefer them to be nonexistent . |
| 28 | I would also like them to be sure which player was responsible for Hirst being sent off — his name 's Haber . |
| 29 | Carried away by his own eloquence , he said blithely that his father would surely prefer him to be married . |
| 30 | ‘ One would almost imagine you to be jealous . ’ |