Example sentences of "[subord] i be [verb] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I am going to go into town more , on my night off , and just hang around where I 'm told the prostitutes stand . |
| 2 | On my arrival I was taken straight to Sick Bay where I was to spend the night , as a billet had not yet been found for me . |
| 3 | It was very hot in the scout hut where I was watching the preparations , so the clay was constantly being sprayed to prevent it drying out . |
| 4 | The location was unusual : the consulting room of a medical specialist where I was to learn the cause of the unacceptably high level of pain from which my sister has suffered for the past five years . |
| 5 | Where I was doing the space walk . |
| 6 | I watched the strange smile on the American woman 's face — like the smile students wore in the movie-house at Toronto when they were watching some particularly syrupy moment from a corny trailer , extorted smiles , full of shame and self-consciousness , but the suppressed emotion sincere enough and shown unguarded in the darkness , except I was playing the voyeur . |
| 7 | And although I was sharing the pain with her , still I was exulting , because I had made her mine , and what I had had and what I had taken , no man ever in the world could have of her . |
| 8 | Although I was doing the same kind of of erm work . |
| 9 | ‘ I told him if he would n't stay in Copenhagen with me than I was catching the first plane home ! ’ |
| 10 | As a film like Scandal , which dealt with the Profumo affair , might make young people go back and check out more about what was happening in the early sixties , so I was doing the same in terms of the fifties . |
| 11 | ‘ When I got home , the doctor came and said of course she could n't cook , so I was doing the cooking . |
| 12 | Luckily , David Norbrook has , in his own words , been ‘ greedily inclusive ’ in his Penguin Book of Renaissance Verse , so I 'm spared the temptation to bore you with a shopping-list of titles that should have gone in but did n't . |
| 13 | Now I need to go further , so I 'm changing the rules . ’ |
| 14 | I have to cook the kids ’ dinner , so I 'm shutting the shop now . |
| 15 | ‘ Do n't know about that , but I do know it 's the only good look I 'm going to get for months so I 'm making the most of it . ’ |
| 16 | Once I was given the address of Mikhoels ' wife , Anastasiya Pavlovna Pototskaya , and I was told that she had a lot of Chagalls , and that she may possibly want to sell them . |
| 17 | And I am going into the light and I am going into time , and if I am to save the world , then I shall have served the world , and if I do not save the world , then at least I shall have tried . |
| 18 | If I set out to do something now , I will do it and I wo n't worry if I am making the right impression — if I fit in . |
| 19 | I do n't know if I am doing the right thing , but I want to make her feel safe . |
| 20 | If the content of a putatively infallible belief is merely that things are looking that way to me now , there is clearly less room for error than if I were to risk the belief that that way is pink . |
| 21 | For instance , what it is for there to be a red rose in this darkened room is for it to be the case that if I were to turn the light on , I would make a certain observation , and if I were then to move to another place , I would make an observation rather different , and if you were to come in , you would observe such and such , and so on . |
| 22 | Yet you would have thought that you know , it was n't as if I were disrupting the class or anything . |
| 23 | If I were to leave the job in 1995 or 1996 I would not want to leave behind a wrecked team because that 's not my style . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , it would be helpful if I were to explain the background to the Government 's overall policy on the financial support of full-time students . |
| 25 | If I were writing the article today … |
| 26 | I wish we were having a picnic , and that it was hot , and I do indeed wish that we were all together ; though even if I were to hold the whole world against my chest , it would probably save us from very little . |
| 27 | The light , detached tones inside my head grow low and reluctant , as if I were switching the tape-recorder to a slower speed . |
| 28 | ‘ It is n't very high on my list of priorities but I guess I 'd change my mind soon enough if I were to meet the right person . ’ |
| 29 | Well , if I were to run the car backwards for long enough then obviously that would do it . |
| 30 | It is sometimes easier to proceed on the basis of : ‘ If I were doing the job this is how I would do it ’ , but this can be delusory even for analysts who have past experience as operators . |