Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] [pers pn] [vb past] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Constable when he was giving evidence it only takes a second to fire a gun was n't that the reason that the bed was tipped because it had to be checked quickly that was n't underneath otherwise Constable may might have got shot . |
| 2 | ‘ I had n't realised that I needed to be a hypochondriac to qualify for your — affections . ’ |
| 3 | He was fascinated by horses — so fascinated that he came to be called ‘ The Man who Loved to Draw Horses , ’ although he could and did draw a wide range of other domestic animals . |
| 4 | She 'd been taught that it paid to be passive . |
| 5 | Buzz sensed that she had to be careful , she had to box clever , she had to let Adam think she had accepted what he said and would go quietly . |
| 6 | By spring of eighty-nine , when the project had started , we 'd gone quite a long way down the road , we 'd decided that we wanted to be looking at what was feasible in general practice . |
| 7 | Already he had half decided that it had to be . |
| 8 | ‘ It is n't very gallant of me to say so , ’ he added , softly kissing her fingertips , ‘ but the fact is , Marissa had decided that she wanted to be the second Mrs Wyndham — while I , my darling , was only interested in the first . ’ |
| 9 | Paddy quickly took command , but with most of their gear missing and two men so badly injured that they had to be left behind , there was nothing for it but to try to make the rendezvous with the LRDG . |
| 10 | It seemed he was more moved than he meant to be . |
| 11 | ‘ How does it follow from what you 've said that you came to be — ’ He paused and his lips compressed in a cruelly thin line before he seemed to deliberately force away the tension , saying simply , ‘ To be with my brother ? ’ |
| 12 | This had to be done and he needed to be unconscious . |
| 13 | ‘ In determining the total liability of an institution to a depositor for the purposes of subsection ( 1 ) above , or the liability or total liability of an institution to a depositor for the purposes of subsection ( 2 ) above , no account shall be taken of any liability in respect of a deposit if … ( c ) the institution is a former authorised institution and the deposit was made after it ceased to be an authorised institution or a recognised bank or licensed institution under the Banking Act 1979 unless , at the time the deposit was made , the depositor did not know and could not reasonably be expected to have known that it had ceased to be an authorised institution , recognised bank or licensed institution . ’ |
| 14 | Any erm deficiency at the end of the financial year was made up by a rate demand , erm so i the it was n't the same in all municipal undertakings , some of them were allowed to carry forward their balances but Ipswich , whether it was erm , er by law or er a , oh I do n't know what it be , perhaps needed that they got to be , the erm balance of the year had to be balanced at the end of the year , so you had a rate demand and of course that rate demand went on to the next year 's rates . |
| 15 | The boat 's engine could not be used and she had to be paddled , sculled , pushed and pulled through the floods . |
| 16 | More than half thought the school had explained but it seemed to be in the past , a one-off opportunity and not an on-going process . |
| 17 | But the explosive charge was too large and the chapel was so badly damaged that it had to be pulled down . |
| 18 | Erm it was to hopefully apprehend a person called that we believed to be er staying at that flat . |
| 19 | So badly was he affected that he had to be taught to speak again . |
| 20 | Boris Mavra , Oxford 's Yugoslavian three , was so exhausted that he had to be lifted out of the boat , though he recovered quickly . |
| 21 | Some Indian railways attempted to cope with the great pressure of third-class passengers by installing them in double-decker carriages , but these had soon to be abandoned because they proved to be unsafe and top-heavy . |
| 22 | Next day in a further raid on this airfield another Beaufighter was to be slightly damaged , as was a Maryland , while a Wellington and a Blenheim were so badly hit that they had to be written off . |
| 23 | However , there has been a considerable improvement in that club 's cash flow and its level of indebtedness is better supported than it appeared to be at the time of last year 's review . |
| 24 | She spoke and understood more English than had at first appeared but it seemed to be English she had got from the Kettering children , so she was easily understood by Jacqueline who would run to her , climb on to her lap , whenever the maid sat down for a moment and stay there silent and apparently overawed . |
| 25 | Lord Lawson did not specify which taxes should be increased but he appeared to be calling for higher indirect taxation , rather than higher income tax , to bring in an extra £6 billion . |
| 26 | Cardinal Tisserant suddenly announced that further voting on religious liberty would be postponed until the next session , claiming the document now before the Council was so different from what had gone before it needed to be debated all over again . |
| 27 | His lank locks had to be shorn and he had to be kitted-out with battle-dress and ammunition boots . |
| 28 | Work had already started on the bridge when the error was spotted and it had to be raised at enormous cost . |
| 29 | And the days passed and the nights passed and it seemed to be just waiting for death . |
| 30 | They were but it , well it was an event , a big event in , in the , among the younger people anyway in Brooks in Willenhall then and er it was really lovely , really lovely I forget if we had to pay to go in , but er we had er we saved up for a good few weeks before , so that we would have some money to spend at the Wakes it was one of the an event of the year then , but erm I used to like Willenhall Wakes and er I used to go dancing a lot well I was allowed to go dancing cos I 've always loved singing and dancing you see and er I was allowed but I had to be home before my father got home , but I was n't always . |