Example sentences of "and [adv] [vb past] [prep] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd read the script and already seemed to be familiar with Joyce 's published material . |
| 2 | ‘ If Gebrec was upset or worried about something and just wanted to be alone to think things over , ’ said Jack , ‘ he might have gone up to the belvedere , or down by the river where we went yesterday to do our painting . ’ |
| 3 | He took in that fact for the first time ; in spite of his knowing job , he had a clownish naîveté about fate and always tended to be innocent of the possibility of calamity . |
| 4 | She said : ‘ I like to make people laugh and always wanted to be able to do something for elderly and lonely people . ’ |
| 5 | He had fought the Japanese and also happened to be Communist . |
| 6 | Like the populists , the pious Protestants were profoundly opposed to Irish nationalism and republicanism and hence tended to be aggressive in defence of the Union with Britain . |