Example sentences of "me to [be] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There certainly appears to me to be no such necessary exclusion of usage as suggested by reason of there being a rule . |
| 2 | Some time in the early hours of the morning we cross over what seems to me to be a pontoon bridge , then suddenly we are up to our thighs in water . |
| 3 | It was you that taught me to be a Darwinist , a decent gradualist . |
| 4 | That seemed to me to be a perfectly proper use of what the company had to offer . |
| 5 | That seemed to me to be a nice balance — good for our shareholders , good for our company and good for the country , as I saw it . |
| 6 | They wanted me to be a secretary and they wanted my sister to be a doctor or something medical . |
| 7 | People who did n't like him said he was very sarcastic , but he always seemed to me to be a most sensitive and competent man . |
| 8 | This seems to me to be a more accurate picture of the nature of religious belief than one which suggests that those who really believe , must confess to an unbridgeable gulf between themselves and ‘ unbelief ‘ . |
| 9 | I want to begin with a question which Neale does not explicitly address , but which seems to me to be a particular blind-spot which has determined the shape of television critical theory : the question of value . |
| 10 | But there were eight in my family , so we could n't afford for me to be a pro — they did n't get paid ! |
| 11 | That seemed to me to be a specific and different group , although many of them were older women , but that is a different point . |
| 12 | It seemed to me to be a crazy world . |
| 13 | But one day in 1977 a rather special envelope arrived , bearing an engraved card inviting me to be a guest of honour at the Women of the Year lunch at the Savoy Hotel in London . |
| 14 | ‘ They expected me to be a lawyer too . |
| 15 | Although people generally consider me to be a very tolerant person , my moody male boss at work is driving me to the end of my tether . |
| 16 | ‘ My father , who was a professional cricketer , desperately wanted me to be a doctor . |
| 17 | I remember my mother wanting me to be a personal assistant to a managing director . |
| 18 | He told me to be a good girl for Mum , and that he would give me some money to go to the pictures . |
| 19 | The fact that she had been the ship that had sunk the Rawalpindi and killed my father did not seem to me to be a valid reason for omitting her from the series , for apart from the utter impersonality of a modern sea battle , she was by far the most successful of all the major German surface ships as well as being the happiest . |
| 20 | Her round of days seemed to me to be a drone-like existence , moving from house to compound , compound to house . |
| 21 | My parents wanted me to be a schoolmaster , but I married into the dry-cleaning business . ’ |
| 22 | Similarly , the young lady/old woman figure can not appear to me to be a picture of a young lady unless I possess the concept of age , and all the other concepts involved in that of age . |
| 23 | Making an international match more of an occasion for spectators in the above ways seems to me to be a legitimate means to this end , and should not be confused with more negative developments in the game . |
| 24 | ‘ Have n't you always known me to be a respectable girl then , Dai ? ’ |
| 25 | The analogy of the safety net seems to me to be a good one , not least because it is an image commonly employed in everyday life . |
| 26 | Whether a particular accused should be acquitted because his conduct was not dishonest appears to me to be a moral question . |
| 27 | ‘ I will make note of these expressions , Mr Pomfret , which seem to me to be a part of that insolence which accompanies intolerance to veil incompetence . ’ |
| 28 | If my father had wanted me to be a king , why did n't he become king himself ? |
| 29 | This seems to me to be a real cause for celebration . |
| 30 | Sargood Brothers v. The Commonwealth ( 1910 ) 11 C.L.R. 258 seems to me to be a clear case of extortion colore officii . |