Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] to be [adj] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | She pretended not to be disappointed and there for the moment the matter rested . |
| 2 | After a time he began to whisper in a voice that tried now to be soft and gentle , in complete contrast to his alarm calls : ‘ Come on , Minch , you ca n't really be so ill that you ca n't show me your face just for a moment , or let me hear the ruffle of one of your wings . |
| 3 | Her smile was luxurious , and as her eyes did briefly meet Alice 's , she seemed actually to be tantalising and teasing . |
| 4 | I smiled in answer to this , and started talking in French to a small , balding man who turned out to be Swiss and who was on the run from the customs in Geneva . |
| 5 | The irony is only compounded by the fact that in retrospect those trade figures turned out to be misleading and only a statistical ‘ blip ’ . |
| 6 | The results of the second set of tests again turned out to be negative and she refused any further investigation . |
| 7 | The subject turned out to be vast and in one year I barely scratched the surface ! |
| 8 | After a cafeteria lunch that day with Jack Radford , Don Wilson and Jack Peach , I met the senior producer , James R. Finlay , who turned out to be friendly and helpful . |
| 9 | This turned out to be impressive and astonishing even to those involved . |
| 10 | It all turned out to be sham and hypocrisy . |
| 11 | But despite all the careful preparation , the birth turned out to be difficult and traumatic and Sophie was finally born with the help of forceps . |
| 12 | Exchange rate changes turned out to be large and unpredictable rather than small and predictable . |
| 13 | All the inhabitants of La Valdieu turned out to be English and when they had explained that they had all independently ended up at the farm without having had any conscious intention of doing so , my sceptical antennae started twitching . |
| 14 | Constantly at war with my vertigo , I decided not to be pathetic and strode off on the flat , step-like slabs that top the crest of the ridge . |
| 15 | But then Molly grew up to be serious and , what was worse , she grew up to be big . |
| 16 | Mentally I reached out to be light and alive again . |
| 17 | ‘ I knew how to be assertive and perhaps even then I wanted there to be distance between us , ’ she says . |
| 18 | Whereas things appeared stable in Britain at that time , overseas there existed events of change — in Italy there existed no unity and much of the land was occupied by the forces of Austria , but they were removed and in 1833 , a united Italy was advocated under Papal rule , but that proved not to be successful and it would be some years before Garibaldi was able to form the Italian National Association for the Unification of Italy which only achieved its objective in 1871 . |
| 19 | My wife wished to take a photograph of me leaning against it from uphill and I have to report that the stone proved not to be immovable and now rests at the bottom of the slope . |
| 20 | It also tended primarily to be Anglican and only secondarily reformed . |