Example sentences of "[verb] [be] tempted " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem has arisen when the singer has been tempted to take the performance to other places where the context has been less helpful : rushed schedules , routine conducting . |
| 2 | Bowe has been tempted by a $20million offer to fight George Foreman in Peking in March , a deal that manager Rock Newman said is too good to reject . |
| 3 | Sean Penn , who earlier this year vowed never to act again , has been tempted out of his short lived retirement to play another mean , moody rebel … er … |
| 4 | A bird which was once a common sight along Britains riverbanks has been tempted to set up home in a sanctuary . |
| 5 | He has been tempted to deal himself . |
| 6 | For a moment she 'd been tempted to tell him what Celia had said . |
| 7 | Mansell was livid and admitted he ran away from the scene of the accident to avoid being tempted into big trouble . |
| 8 | The video will try to help them understand the misery they cause and what they should do to avoid being tempted down that road . |
| 9 | Had they seen Saturday 's encounter , the Kiwis might have been tempted to catch a plane home . |
| 10 | As future Apothecaries might well have been tempted to sell the site for building , Sloane insisted on another clause : |
| 11 | This year many followers of Hardy will no doubt have been tempted , as a tribute linked with the 150th anniversary of the novelist 's birth , to visit his cottage at Higher Bockhampton in Dorset . |
| 12 | He might have been tempted to say , it 's sort of a job by which he meant , it 's something that I have to do . |
| 13 | In the circumstances , Benjamin Titford might have been tempted not to leave his name in the parish register , either , as his bride came gingerly down the aisle bearing his as-yet-unborn son and heir . |
| 14 | If the binder has gone to town with his gilt on the outside , he may well have been tempted to spill over onto the inside edges , giving pleasant lacy-patterned borders to the paste-down , usually termed ‘ inside dentelles ’ . |
| 15 | At first many people may have been tempted to discount it . |
| 16 | The Gazza of old would have been tempted to flick that ball in the air and juggle away an outstanding chance for his team . |
| 17 | If you 've signed up for a Barclaycard recently , or joined the AA , you will probably have been tempted by the offer of ‘ free accommodation ’ in a ‘ superb range of hotels in the UK and Ireland ’ . |
| 18 | Lazio manager Dino Zoff may have been tempted to rest Gazza against Parma , but his German ace striker Karl-Heinz Reidle is now a worse casualty with badly-damaged ankle ligaments . |
| 19 | Almost anyone else witnessing the achievements of this small child would have been tempted to make a great fuss and shout the news all over the village and beyond , but not so Mrs Phelps . |
| 20 | Millions of years ago , some serow-like ancestor may have been tempted by the relatively secure niche provided by the steep mountain slopes which are safer from the predators than the plains below . |
| 21 | All conventional religious structures would be excluded from this sanction , as they were utterly ineffectual , and presented a useful distraction for some souls who might have been tempted towards esoteric practices . |
| 22 | And Baldwin in 1943 , isolated and unpopular , might well have been tempted , as the tone of his note indeed suggests , to exaggerate his erstwhile capacity for independent decision . |
| 23 | It was directed at an audience to which a man of lesser wit and native grace might have been tempted to talk down ( it has to be remembered that by this time Boulestin and his restaurant had already become almost legendary ) but this was a trap into which he was at the same time too subtle and too naturally courteous to fall . |
| 24 | He did not enjoy such visits now , and would have been tempted to abandon them if it were not for the fact that people might gossip . |
| 25 | She would have been tempted to visit all of Montaine 's old haunts . |
| 26 | The ground got steadily hillier , and here and there rock outcrops stood out which , had they not been so near to towns , he would have been tempted to investigate . |
| 27 | Again , he might have been tempted to land and feed , but he felt an urging to fly on , to travel far , as if today of all days he would begin to feel freedom at last . |
| 28 | Not that anybody would have been tempted . |
| 29 | But for the heavy torch in the older woman 's hand she might have been tempted to make a dash for it . |
| 30 | She was a big , handsome woman , a larger Grace with a noble bum , by which Grunte in happier times might well have been tempted . |