Example sentences of "they [vb base] to be [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They want to be left alone ; fear being touched because of the bodily soreness . |
| 2 | They want to be proved right . |
| 3 | Patients who have little chance of being well enough to leave hospital even if resuscitated by medical specialists could make it known beforehand that they prefer to be left alone . |
| 4 | They have to be ridden everyday for exercise and have to be cleaned out ( stable ) everyday . |
| 5 | M I five operates it in Northern Ireland and has got this whole series you may well have seen the television programme recently about these people who work undercover and who work for the intelligence and they they work themselves into the I R A and become members and then they feed the information back to British it 's been very successful and a couple of insiders is risky and we eventually when they are discovered who these people are , they have to be given new identities , plastic surgery and the works . |
| 6 | Some schools have permanent pools outside , but as with the sand pit , they need to be kept clean and free from intruders . |