Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [verb] [adv prt] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were n't many weighing machines in Baldersdale , but then a friend had to get one because of health problems and I turned out to be something around ten stones . |
| 2 | She was a local farmer 's wife and she went on to be our first member of Parliament and me brother was helping her and mum and dad , you see , was working for the , we , we got the house as a committee room and all , all the and I can remember going with mother , we had , we had a Co-op paper or it was Co-op orientated I 'm sure news and I can remembering canvassing Walsall Wood with me mother , well I ca n't see my Guild members doing that . |
| 3 | I know of someone who took in an old lady and she turned out to be well-known for being difficult . |
| 4 | He took her back to her flat in Putney , which was a long way , and she turned out to be keen on cocoa . |
| 5 | It , it 's also a chain , from what you 're going on about , people regarding the service , I mean everyone 's had a bit , not just the erm , it , it 's the purchase managers more than the er , people who pay our premiums , they are just in time and we stood up to be shot at if we do n't pay the service , or put a big ones maybe , they 'll have half a carton of raw material left for that machine , so they 'll order an item for tomorrow morning , well they 're not to blame for the service , T N T's to blame for the service if we do n't get it erm , |
| 6 | The only thing they seem to have in common is their isolated nature and striking individuality , and they scream out to be included in a list of favourite miniature mountain gems . |
| 7 | Byrd and Philippe de Monte ; Byrd and Taverner ; Byrd and keyboard composers of Redford 's generation ; Byrd and Tallis ; Byrd and Parsons : Byrd research has brought these and many other connections to light , and they cry out to be the stuff of records called ‘ Byrd and his contemporaries ’ . |
| 8 | If you bought some shoes described as leather and they turned out to be made of plastic then clearly you 've bought some shoes which are not as described . |
| 9 | And they turned out to be made of manmade fibres . |
| 10 | One day Victoria made herself a pair of earrings out of porcelain to go with a particular dress , and they turned out to be the start of a new part-time career . |
| 11 | We met the students on Sunday — had dinner with them in the Sichuan restaurant , as I said , and they turned out to be very pleasant , one girl ( whose blonde hair must strike the Chinese with amazement ) and three men , sporting their long hair in defiance of the Chinese preference for short back-and-sides . |
| 12 | And I thought Grandson Richard was some special person and he turned out to be a human who sings when he wets himself — ‘ |
| 13 | cos she found out , in her first year , she had a , a mature student and I wondered how old a mature student and he turned out to be thirty five , and he was married , |
| 14 | They do n't have time to verify stuff , a lot of the time they just put it out and it turns out to be false . |
| 15 | Like a bottle you expect to have whisky in and it turns out to be full of a specimen for the doctor . ’ |
| 16 | And one more coming up , let's take it from the bottom of the pile , literally , and it turns out to be Mrs Diane , Street , Market Harborough . |
| 17 | When you 're expecting jam and it turns out to be marmalade it 's quite a shock . |
| 18 | And for Mrs Stephanie Pearson of , Coleville and one more coming out the bag and it turns out to be C Fletcher of , Chilwell . |
| 19 | Well as an association , we naturally get ourselves involved with many other aspects of the university activities in that erm both the students are applicants of ours and come and talk to us about projects which they may like to see emerge , and other departments of the university , the music department etc. , sometimes find that our knowledge of the area , or certain aspects of some of the schemes that we 're operating , coincide with what they 're trying to do and it turns out to be that campuses like this are often useful places for residencies and artists will come and take up residency in a university for a period of time , and that 's often been exploited by the Association . |
| 20 | History was sex , French was sex , art was sex , the Bible , poetry , penfriends , games , music , everything was sex except biology which was obviously sex but obviously not really sex , not the one which was secret and ecstatic and wicked and a sacrament and all the things it was supposed to be at one and the same time — I got that in the boiler room and it turned out to be biology after all . |
| 21 | He had give his name as E. Thomas Reardon and it turned out to be a pseudonym , so cheques left on the mantel were useless , and he must have known that they would be . |
| 22 | Just as the record was going to be released , Dave came round and told us he 'd got another manager for us and it turned out to be Ralph Horton who we 'd auditioned for at The Roebuck Pub in Tottenham Court Road . |
| 23 | This is not always the case , though — I once had a kestrel that I 'd decided from its plumage was a male and it turned out to be a female , and although this has never happened to me with a barn owl , I know people who 've made that mistake . |
| 24 | An unusual call led us to the reeds by the lake , and it turned out to be an ortolan bunting , quite distinctive with its buff chest and olive-green head . |
| 25 | He could then calculate the energy corresponding to this orbit ( see Appendix , Al ) and it turned out to be |
| 26 | and then and then I s and then in me head I did erm seven take away ten and then I worked it out and it turned out to be three . |
| 27 | And it turned out to be them . |
| 28 | The mother had taken a house by the sea for a month for her daughter 's health and it turned out to be an Indian summer that year . |
| 29 | And it turned out to be simply because she knew she was pregnant ; a mechanical trick she was turning on him . |
| 30 | And so we took a piece off and had it analysed , we have a little laboratory which we use to analyse things like that , and it turned out to be what we expected , the most common colour of medieval furniture was red . |