Example sentences of "[vb past] to be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She pretended to be mulling it over . |
| 2 | Then he flew up beside Cassowary and pretended to be listening to the song . |
| 3 | I pretended to be looking at some papers when the door opened and Grace Hinkle ushered in a sophisticated-looking female of about twenty-eight . |
| 4 | I took down the battered , broken-spined A-Z I keep taped to the driver 's sun visor and pretended to be looking something up . |
| 5 | ‘ Make out we have n't seen him , ’ Otley said as he pretended to be searching for something in the grass . |
| 6 | Instead he went over to one of the shelves and pretended to be searching for a book . |
| 7 | ‘ See ya later alligator , ’ he waved his hand and pretended to be chewing something . |
| 8 | Now he pretended to be waving his cape at the bull and executed a neat veronica , then she kicked her leg up backwards and touched her heel with her fingers while he looked scornfully on with one hand behind his back palm facing outwards . |
| 9 | Listening to Claire chattering about that old lunatic Tom Reynard while he pretended to be dozing and was framing sentences in his mind . |
| 10 | Penelope walked slowly away from the house , then pretended to be locking at an empty house which was to be sold two doors away from where Rupert lived . |
| 11 | He reached for the bottle but Oliver got there first and pretended to be reading the label . |
| 12 | I kept my head down and pretended to be consuming the scraps left on my dish . |
| 13 | He said he pretended to be carrying court documents . |
| 14 | I pretended to be visiting Fedorov , and enquired where he lived . |
| 15 | He set up the TV Times coverage , and we all pretended to be having a wonderful time for the benefit of the camera . |
| 16 | They seen to be watching the passengers . |
| 17 | BTR rose 7p to 437p with Kolhberg Kravis Roberts , which has filed notice of its intention to go to 15 per cent , reported to be buying . |
| 18 | Hamas supporters and others were on Oct. 26 reported to be enforcing the strike in East Jerusalem . |
| 19 | The national health service is greatly improved , in that for many years — including those years when the Labour party was running , or reported to be running the country — the financial balance of the service was poor . |
| 20 | The sum , substantially in excess of estimates by the country 's central bank which had recently estimated borrowing to pay for war costs at around $10,000 million [ see also pp. 37987 ; 38166 ; 38212 ] , was expected to cover current expenditure reported to be running at some $20,000 million . |
| 21 | It contained many names : journalists whom he deemed to be lacking in a proper respect , politicians ( like Joshua Morris ) who had made jokes at Mrs Thatcher 's expense , Booker Prize judges . |
| 22 | The first clash of arms in the campaign came on 23 August , when Salza 's Fourth Army , moving southward in expectation of cutting off the rear of the Austrians — who he deemed to be driving east — ran into Dankl 's advancing First Army at Krasnik . |
| 23 | Patients presenting at Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children between October 1982 and April 1990 found to be excreting Cryptosporidium in the stool were reviewed retrospectively to assess the presenting symptoms , duration of diarrhoea and patient characteristics . |
| 24 | Another 17.93 per cent he found to be living in ‘ secondary ’ poverty , i.e. their income was above the minimum but Rowntree 's investigators described them as ‘ obviously living in a state of poverty , i.e. in obvious want and squalor ’ . |
| 25 | How frequently were these unknown forces found to be acting ? |
| 26 | Phil Andrews was in command of Valiant two years later when Filden I was again intercepted and found to be attempting to smuggle a large quantity of cigarettes . |
| 27 | This brings in sanctions against foreign companies found to be contributing to the proliferation of these weapons . |
| 28 | Virgin invited the Clarkes to carry out an independent audit , with the assurance that any money found to be owing would be paid . |
| 29 | In many cases trichomonal infection is associated with other diseases , and while few would advocate the routine screening for other infection of all women found to be suffering from candidal infection , the finding of Trichomonas vaginalis is an absolute indication for further investigation to exclude other sexually transmitted disease . |
| 30 | The survivor was landed at 2220 and found to be suffering only from mild exposure . |