Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [prep] [be] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I only wanted to be kind to the Dust Baby . |
| 2 | He no longer asked to be relieved of his archbishopric . |
| 3 | Most of the friends were too old or too physically enfeebled to be capable of offering themselves for military glory . |
| 4 | He 'd read the script and already seemed to be familiar with Joyce 's published material . |
| 5 | Why was it that everyone she 'd met lately seemed to be obsessed with star signs ? |
| 6 | This continent seems to have been created by Augustus Le Plongeon for his 1896 novel Queen Moo and the Egyptian Sphynx , which he claimed was based on original Mayan writings — which writings , of course , just happened to be unavailable to other scholars . |
| 7 | One just had to be manly about it . |
| 8 | She just wanted to be free of the burden of her own special powers . |
| 9 | This was the very widespread feeling ( at least in Parliament : public opinion normally tended to be suspicious of ministerial projects ) that the king and his ministers had a right to the support of all loyal and patriotic subjects . |
| 10 | . We always seemed to be lucky in that way . ’ |
| 11 | The coffee in France always seemed to be superior to the coffee in England , and he had made it just right . |
| 12 | Everything always seemed to be crap for actors and you just had to put up with it — while the present corruption continued . |
| 13 | The studios and corridors at Cardiff always seemed to be full of pretty girls . |
| 14 | Most of the enemy still seemed to be asleep as the avalanche of horses and riders bore down upon them in pounding fury . |
| 15 | But she was a kind-hearted girl and , besides , it always paid to be attentive to patients in the private wing . |
| 16 | I always erred on being over-cautious at the last , but never faulted there so obviously my caution paid off ! |
| 17 | Yesterday proved to be significant for the stand-off for he also announced his engagement to Lucy Fleming , a 25-year-old art teacher from Uplawmoor , near Glasgow . |
| 18 | On the resumption Kilkeel were awarded three consecutive penalty corners but they were unable to add to their slender advantage , and the direct long ball tactic from Service meant that Kilkeel always had to be alert to the breakaway . |
| 19 | He took in that fact for the first time ; in spite of his knowing job , he had a clownish naîveté about fate and always tended to be innocent of the possibility of calamity . |
| 20 | I also needed to be knowledgeable about the procedures , likely outcomes and prognosis so that I could give full and accurate explanations to Mrs Allen . |
| 21 | They also appeared to be suspicious of television , as if wary of what I might ask them . |
| 22 | He repeatedly complained of being old beyond his years , and yet behind his words one senses at times an element of satisfaction . |
| 23 | He also liked to be popular with his officers . |
| 24 | He also wished to be satisfied on certain counts as to the suitability of the candidates . |
| 25 | The caddie also had to be fastidious with his player 's equipment , providing clean clubs and balls . |
| 26 | Of course , he also had to be ready with a word or two of encouragement now and then as well . |
| 27 | Like the populists , the pious Protestants were profoundly opposed to Irish nationalism and republicanism and hence tended to be aggressive in defence of the Union with Britain . |
| 28 | And he frankly admitted to being obsessed with her sex — some of the talk she 'd heard was of cradle-snatching ; some of death-bed fucks — he played no favourites . |
| 29 | It is evident that in many of our residential areas no such balance any longer exists , for the street has been given over entirely to the car , with other functions now expected to be subordinate to it . |
| 30 | Folly was still confused , but at least there now seemed to be light at the end of the tunnel . |