Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb past] to [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , Hahnemann discovered that if a patient needed a particular remedy he or she tended to be very sensitive to it — much more so than someone for whom it was not indicated . |
| 2 | Earlier this month a mass demonstration by radical green activists brought the yard to a standstill for a day and forced management into a face to face meeting with protestors where they claimed to be keenly supportive of the rainforest environment |
| 3 | Once the process was completed , older boys , apprentice papermakers , came and dislodged the sheet , taking it away to the drying trestles , where it had to be carefully watched and removed after it had dried but before it began to turn yellow in the sun . |
| 4 | ‘ Now Bathsheba , ’ he said , laughing , ‘ you know very well that I had to be very careful , as a single man working for you , a good-looking young woman . |
| 5 | It was the person , the personality that I grew to be really good friends with , that I have now grown to love . ’ |
| 6 | It was a measure of my despair that I dared to be so disdainful . |
| 7 | From the tarn , I followed my nose down to a cairn that stands on the shoulder above Deepdale Side where the view down Deepdale into Dentdale was so good that I sat and looked at it for a good half-hour until the thought that I needed to be home by late afternoon pushed me on down to the green lane of the old Craven Way . |
| 8 | I also felt that I wanted to be apart from the routine of normal home life with the washing , cooking and to think about . |
| 9 | I 'd promised my mother I 'd buy her some new central-heating , and the only time it could be fitted was the next week , so I needed to be home for Monday when the workmen came round . |
| 10 | Although you had to be very careful in er in d knowing what to go after . |
| 11 | He supposed that she had to be somewhere and he reminded himself that they were n't supposed to be together so what did it matter , but still he kept catching himself scanning the crowd for her . |
| 12 | Weirdly , the step turned into a kind of floating movement , so that she seemed to be somehow poised in the air for an instant . |
| 13 | He was somewhat consoled to find that she seemed to be genuinely interested . |
| 14 | She was no more needed , she realised wretchedly , than she wanted to be here . |
| 15 | He was a radical so she had to be even more radical . |
| 16 | The two women had not been able to help much by way of descriptions apart from recounting details of the horrific masks the burglars wore and that one appeared to be rather thin ( the one with the broken leg ) . |
| 17 | Did n't you say that he 'd expect you to tidy your bedroom every day before you went to school and at night before you went to bed , that everything had to be perfectly in place ? |
| 18 | When they came I was rather surprised that there seemed to be so many ; I said I had no idea that I 'd ordered as many as this . |
| 19 | The first thing we discovered was that there seemed to be almost no information to go on . |
| 20 | The Labour Code was introduced in 1950 and , for the first time , urban unions were officially permitted — although they had to be legally recognized by the Ministry of Labour . |
| 21 | Anglo-Scots had a theory — perhaps justified by Bridie 's remark — that they had to be twice as good as a home-bred player to break through into the national team , whereas those North of the Border believed the corollary . |
| 22 | Because there was a great Tory voice sounded throughout the press and the mass media you see , that er on compensation for the railways , if there ever should be nationalization that they had to be amply compensated you see . |
| 23 | approximately twenty-five per cent of the children evacuated were in such a filthy condition that they had to be specially treated . |
| 24 | The wages of sin , he supposed , trying to be glad , for Cara 's sake , that they appeared to be so good . |
| 25 | I did not carry out their instructions very well so they had to be very precise in explaining things to me . |
| 26 | Lord Denning said that it had to be so serious that it was of the first importance that offenders be brought to justice . |
| 27 | As the excluded social forces grew in political strength , so they pressed in on the established constitution in ways which eventually caused it to buckle so that it came to be more in line with their views as to how things should be . |
| 28 | Arette is a particularly neat , new-looking village , for the sufficient reason that it needed to be much rebuilt after an earthquake there in the summer of 1967 . |
| 29 | Tralhaut comments that he seemed to be almost glorying in his failure to break down the barriers and ‘ storm the fortress ’ of his love 's frozen heart . |
| 30 | Well it 's one of those occupations or businesses that he had to be there more or less |