Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] to [be] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ What I considered to be quite an insignificant idea at first has now become a viable business for me . ’ |
| 2 | She seemed to be quite a cheerful old woman . ’ |
| 3 | When it came to boxing , Reg Witter paired me with a bigger boy called Charlie Featherstone , who happened to be quite a friend of mine . |
| 4 | I remember the scandal surrounding her in the Seventies , when she appeared to be just a naive young girl caught up in the trappings of fame . |
| 5 | Like Kubrick before him , he was dealing with a man who wanted to be both the star and the producer . |
| 6 | To deal with a pundit one had to be either a sister , senior staff nurse , or a rare fourth-year on nights . |
| 7 | There seemed to be quite a lot of turn from the end where Philippe was bowling but at my end there seemed to be no life at all . |
| 8 | But after the First World War , there seemed to be quite a lot of lorries . |
| 9 | The first thing we discovered was that there seemed to be almost no information to go on . |
| 10 | But for those who tried to do so , there seemed to be only a progressive involvement in guilt . |
| 11 | And when we tried to time the contractions , there seemed to be only a 45-second gap between each one ! |
| 12 | The wind was easterly so they would be returning over our heads onto the main runway , and as the aircraft started to come back they seemed to be only a few feet above us , touching down after they crossed the far hedge . |
| 13 | Stuart Pearce and Chris Waddle may have been chosen to take the vital 1990 World Cup semi-final penalties because they appeared to be just the sort of level-headed British , team players that would n't miss . |
| 14 | I thought they had to be both the sa , same . |
| 15 | With Walsh then skimming the bar with a spectacular overhead shot , it seemed to be just a matter of time before Tottenham would score . |
| 16 | Besides being bad for Mrs Thatcher personally , it appeared to be almost the worst possible result for the party as a whole since it made inevitable a further week of damaging internecine strife . |
| 17 | What appeared to be merely an area of shrinkage on the edge of the village has , therefore , turned out to be very important in the history of settlement in the area — a small independent hamlet with its own church which was eventually abandoned . |