Example sentences of "what [pron] [vb past] to [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got up the anchor , rowed what I estimated to be about five yards , and then let go the anchor again , and peered ahead . |
| 2 | Maybe people were seeing me as something other than what I wanted to be naturally . |
| 3 | ‘ What I considered to be quite an insignificant idea at first has now become a viable business for me . ’ |
| 4 | She was n't what she wanted to be either . |
| 5 | ‘ What you got to be so pleased about ? ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Perhaps you 'd better start , ’ suggested Karelius with what he felt to be rather transparent cunning . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , well , my dear fellow , ’ he said with what he felt to be rather unconvincing surprise , ‘ fancy meeting you here . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |