Example sentences of "i [verb] [prep] be [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 'll make me want to be a Brownie even more ! ’ |
| 2 | ‘ These are the songs I grew up listening to , ’ she says , ‘ they are the songs that made me want to be a singer . ’ |
| 3 | He taught me the fundamentals of the job … unsparingly … he channelled my discontent and made me want to be an actor . |
| 4 | My Lords , that concludes my analysis of what I perceive to be the important British cases but before seeking to draw conclusions therefrom I must refer to certain Commonwealth and American cases . |
| 5 | I would not want to return you to your female progenitor in what , from my briefings on human culture , I perceive to be an indecorous condition . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ All I asked for was a month 's peace and quiet to get some work done . |
| 7 | Why did I want to be a policeman . |
| 8 | Do I want to be a dead hero or a living idiot ? |
| 9 | Er my Lord er the second observation I make about erm Mr opinion erm and the facts upon which it is based is that his opinion is hotly disputed er , not least because of what it would be submitted is the highly speculative nature of this enterprise er , when you are being asked to consider with the benefit of hindsight , whether or not a business entered into some eighty years ago , was likely to have failed and er it is also an exercise which in my submission is entirely irrelevant if your Lordship would find the basis of compensation which I contend for is the one because the logic of not having to become involved in any investigation of whether or not this business would probably have been unsuccessful in any event . |
| 10 | I mean between being a Spaniard and a Majorcan … ’ |
| 11 | Winner takes all , and as I intend to be the winner , shooting you would be a bit of a waste . |
| 12 | " I could n't have a worse offer if I lived to be a hundred . |
| 13 | I was a member of NALGO from 1979 until the GLC was abolished , when I ceased to be a member for a number of reasons : 1 could not afford it , and because the company for whom I worked was not a Local Authority . |
| 14 | I was happy as pop singer , the last couple of years I was n't happy when I ceased to be a pop singer and I was er headed on a road of being an entertainer . |
| 15 | I owned to being the coward , traitor , thief and fairy they saw in me . |
| 16 | And the only thing I cared about was the damn foolishness of the banning . |
| 17 | I remember feis as being the best part of Irish dancing because I got to be the centre of attention , albeit fleetingly . |
| 18 | I hate to be the party-pooper , again , but rabble-rousing sexist nonsense is not to be forgiven , even if it 's done with Blade 's A1 golden retriever smile . |
| 19 | I hate to be the bearer of bad tidings , so to speak , but it 's been virtually wrecked — tyres slashed , windows smashed … the works . ’ |
| 20 | I tend to be a little formal because you 're my boss . ’ |
| 21 | Indeed I own myself unworthy and I long to be the servant of even the least religious in the Church of God and I hope by God 's grace to be made a sharer with them … |
| 22 | Snowdon I found to be a Scottish mountain transposed to North Wales . |
| 23 | ‘ Am I exonerated from being a wimp ? ’ |
| 24 | And when I pretended to be a horse I got so excited I bumped into this litter bin and fell over . |
| 25 | That is this , should I rely on the agape love of my partner or should I strive to be the type of person that my partner could easily love even if no agape love were available ? |
| 26 | OK , I apologise for being a clod . |
| 27 | I want to be a gardener . |
| 28 | I want to be a social worker so I could do something for these girls . ’ |
| 29 | I want to be a cadet officer in the Guards — Grenadiers , Coldstream sort of thing . |
| 30 | The only times I do not want to be a writer are when I want to be a painter , and the only times I want to be a painter are when I am taken by the cast or mobility on a person 's face . |