Example sentences of "i [verb] [pron] to be [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not that I mean it to be a breathless race , but rather that I somehow do n't see life in an ordinary manner , not even this sere and monotonous existence in Africa ; granted , it browns me off sometimes , but I do pretty well on the whole ; and if I can still enjoy this incredibly austere and disciplined life , how much more shall we not enjoy life together ? |
| 2 | I judge you to be a born city person . |
| 3 | In all things I expect you to be a lady . |
| 4 | In a feature interview with Percy Grainger next day I found him to be a charming and modest man , and was glad to write in glowing terms of his keyboard mastery , his repertoire , and his travels . |
| 5 | ‘ I found him to be a wise friend and an exemplorary leader of the western world . |
| 6 | BELVILLE : I found her to be a coquette , an told her so and she is offended . |
| 7 | I found it to be a splendid panegyric on the peaceful uses of atomic energy , though to present a history of nuclear power without even mentioning the existence of hydrogen bombs , may be thought by some to overdo the euphoria . |
| 8 | ‘ I want you to be a good little girl and go home to Mummy and Daddy while I finish the season . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've some wonderful news , ’ said Phil , ‘ and I want you to be the first to know . |
| 10 | I want it to be a surprise . ‘ |
| 11 | I wish it was Friday I want it to be the weekend man . |
| 12 | ‘ Development ’ may appear in any one writer 's successful novels ; in successful stories , I hold it to be a myth . ’ |
| 13 | I consider him to be an intellectual pygmy . ’ |
| 14 | I have made no secret of the fact that I consider you to be a boy with potential , a boy I might introduce to some of the wonderful things of this world . |
| 15 | Perhaps because his view on the main point is the same as mine , but certainly because I consider it to be a clear exposition , I here reproduce the statement of Professor Smith in The Law of Theft , 6th ed. , ch . |
| 16 | Simmel 's work has been selected on the grounds that I consider it to be the most convincing analysis of modernity consistent with the concept of objectification as outlined here . |
| 17 | ‘ I know him to be a child with a warm heart , ’ said Rose . |
| 18 | Here we might admit that my belief is true and justified but refuse to grant that I know there to be a sheep in the field . |
| 19 | ‘ I know you to be a compassionate man , ’ the queen-dowager told him . |
| 20 | Yet even as I think it , I know it to be a ridiculous thought . |
| 21 | If that is the case that each of the political parties , as I assume is the case for er the Conservative party , I know it to be the case of the Labour party I assume the same is true for the Liberal Democrats and other parties represented in this house , that they undertake the very considerable organisational er er process of selecting candidates only to find a few weeks before June the ninth , that as a result of the difficulties that I 've described as far as the French government attitude towards these elections is concerned , that er in fact we have to revert to the existing arrangements and that we can not have these new er boundaries in place . |
| 22 | Reso 's widow Patricia , who went to the court , said of Seale : ‘ I believe him to be an evil person , a sick person . |
| 23 | Take the examples of these verbs suggested by Bolinger : ( 105 ) I believe him to be the man . |
| 24 | And I believe them to be the some of the nicest maps I 've ever seen . |
| 25 | I believe it to be a defective understanding of the Christian doctrine of creation and also as we shall see later , of the social dimension of the gospel . |
| 26 | This difference has , of course , been noted by Parsons ( 1954 ) and Rueschemeyer ( 1964 ) , and I believe it to be a very important one . |
| 27 | I believe it to be a natural duty , and if it be a natural duty it is a divine duty and how can a husband have power to discharge a divine duty ? |
| 28 | That spiritual dimension I believe to be of pivotal importance ; indeed I believe it to be the soul of the Green Movement today . |
| 29 | I believe it to be the source of evil . |
| 30 | I have never seen this particular argument put forward in quite this form ; and I believe it to be the best argument for the ordination of women that there is . |