Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pron] [vb past] to [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 39 ) A hand which I noticed to be surprisingly powerful . |
| 2 | Smith had a reputation for being devious and unreliable , which I found to be far from true . |
| 3 | A lower compartment with a curved zipper offers easy and quick access to things like waterproofs or extra sweaters , and the main bag itself has a zip-out divider , which I found to be quite useful . |
| 4 | The ordinary naturalness of the attitude filled Franca with a thoughtless tenderness which she felt to be entirely misplaced . |
| 5 | In which we had to be very responsible like wearing a life jacket and plimsolls so we did n't slip on the floor . |
| 6 | Looking to our right we recognised the Cottages with the road in front of them close to the ditch ; also our Professor 's stable , coach-house and dog kennels , with the back entrance from the road to his garden … we were soon in King 's Road [ Pancras Way ] which we found to be well studded with trees on each side … to our left the Country residence of Counsellor Agar [ builder of Agar 's Town ] … we turned to the right and first took notice of the front of our Professor 's house with its large garden protected from the pathway and road by a brick wall . |
| 7 | This was the activity with which they came to be most closely identified in the first fifty years of their existence . |
| 8 | On the other hand , there were people like Spaak and the Italian premier , Alcide de Gasperi , who were prepared to accept things for what they were , to see the Council of Europe as a first step in the right direction , not an end — and a direction which they believed to be merely inevitable . |
| 9 | Under the agreement five-member panels would review decisions made by either country to impose import duties on goods which they considered to be unfairly subsidized or dumped . |
| 10 | Gray 's comments evoke a kind of mystical disenchantment with the movement which he found to be too focused on an intellectual critique of society . |
| 11 | Bates entered his third final in an uneasy mood , stating his opinions about a fine which he considered to be too high for a verbal abuse offence — this did affect his performance . |
| 12 | He had that sense of fact which he considered to be more useful ‘ than nine-tenths of the most pretentious critical journalism ’ . |
| 13 | I got up the anchor , rowed what I estimated to be about five yards , and then let go the anchor again , and peered ahead . |
| 14 | Maybe people were seeing me as something other than what I wanted to be naturally . |
| 15 | ‘ What I considered to be quite an insignificant idea at first has now become a viable business for me . ’ |
| 16 | She was n't what she wanted to be either . |
| 17 | ‘ What you got to be so pleased about ? ’ |
| 18 | In these transitional years of fluctuating opinion some continued to adopt a passive attitude towards fatalities , in which they sought to trace the hand of God , whilst others favoured active remedies for what they held to be primarily human failings . |
| 19 | Perhaps you 'd better start , ’ suggested Karelius with what he felt to be rather transparent cunning . |
| 20 | ‘ Well , well , my dear fellow , ’ he said with what he felt to be rather unconvincing surprise , ‘ fancy meeting you here . |
| 21 | The tide was coming in and , as he rounded the rocks which screened the Cove , he saw two things : a courting couple doing what he felt to be far more than courting and then something a little further away which made his heart miss a beat . |
| 22 | When Ken was in a bad mood or turned on people who regarded themselves as close friends , it was mostly a reaction to the way he saw himself — a failure to be what he wanted to be most . |
| 23 | When John Lehmann grew impatient with what he considered to be too cautious a policy at the Hogarth Press , he set up his own publishing house with modest financial backing from family and friends . |
| 24 | When he first reached the blissful shore of the redhead 's body , a peculiar idea occurred to him : he now knew at last what it meant to be absolutely modern ; it meant to lie on the shore of the redhead 's body . |