Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [verb] [prep] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Visual communication has been categorised in various ways but none of them has succeeded in being comprehensive . |
| 2 | I got to remember to be careful with the fire . |
| 3 | I always times , the thing I forgotten to think about was that lock , I really ought to do that |
| 4 | I want to try to be kind to the hon. Member for Gordon because he is out of his depth . |
| 5 | I want to ride as much as I can , but I want to try to be sensible at the same time . |
| 6 | I stopped trying to be clever . |
| 7 | ‘ Perhaps you would help me up on deck ? ’ she ventured expectantly , adding with a bewitchingly brief smile , ‘ I 'd hoped to be alone for a while . ’ |
| 8 | I decided to try to be open for once in my life . |
| 9 | I tried to slacken pace but the slowest I went seemed to be faster than I had ever run before . |
| 10 | I do s-seem to be b-bogged down . ’ |
| 11 | erm , my name 's from Edinburgh a couple of jobs one which is the sort of presentations I do tends to be one to one the hardest one for me as I say meetings with quite a lot of people there |
| 12 | I do like to be able to pick a fish up by its head , ’ William Black said , waving a sea bass in rigor mortis at me , before going on to inspect its gills . |
| 13 | But I do n't , not only that Marg , I mean , it 's become like a , but the only thing I do object to is these people marching about , and they do n't want to help pay for their children 's |
| 14 | " I did promise to be ready for nine thirty but those blasted animals just wo n't cooperate . " |
| 15 | I liked to play at being bright . |
| 16 | I had decided to be vague . |
| 17 | I had ceased to be good at the convent , and now I also ceased to be either healthy or clever . |
| 18 | Already I had ceased to be sure which side I was on . |
| 19 | I had tried to be discreet , as the subject was professional dynamite even when discussed in private with a great friend . |
| 20 | I had tried to be first in order to get it over with quickly but now it was clear that I would be under the gaze of most if not all of the class . |
| 21 | If I had admitted to being cold , I should also have had to admit that I was hungry , and this was something I was incapable of doing — if only because I did n't believe it to be true . |
| 22 | It 's not my day really earlier today I had to admit to being grateful to John Gummer now I 'm gon na have to be . |
| 23 | Sad to say , I had learnt to be suspicious of good-looking young men who for no particular reason seemed to take a sudden interest in me . |
| 24 | Then , to my relief , what I had taken to be great patches of surf resolved into luminous shoals of herring or mackerel , which shot away at our approach , each individual fish an incandescent streak . |
| 25 | But I do n't think it is a works , I think it 's two blokes , I du n no how many are there but it all I 've heard of is these two bosses |
| 26 | Rocastle said : ‘ I 've had to be patient , but hopefully this can be the start of my Leeds career and a turning point for the club . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I 've had to be stubborn , single-minded and downright selfish in my pursuit of a movie career . |
| 28 | After all this I 've had with being late you know ? |
| 29 | I 've tried to be sensible about getting back into it , which is strange for an athlete , and it 's forcing me to temper my enthusiasm and take the training easy . ’ |
| 30 | That 's the trouble of course , I 've got a mass of fascinating stuff but I 've got to be selective . ’ |