Example sentences of "[vb past] [v-ing] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( I have regarded myself as a feminist ever since I finally stopped wanting to be a pretend boy like George in the Famous Five . ) |
| 2 | You know comrades , it 's time we stopped pretending to be something we 're not . |
| 3 | She said she found modelling to be a good business to be in . |
| 4 | She found trying to be responsible mother , dependent daughter and " normal young person " a source of constant conflict between her and her mother . |
| 5 | I stopped trying to be clever . |
| 6 | The Committee on Nursing ( 1972 ) , chaired by Professor Asa Briggs , stated that it believed nursing to be the major caring profession . |
| 7 | An imposter arrived claiming to be related to one of them , and whilst he was alone with the bodies he drove a wooden stake into the heart of each . |
| 8 | She loved fantasising about being his wife , wearing big hats , being chauffeur-driven and waltzing through the door of Number 10 if he got to be Prime Minister . |
| 9 | After that the First Lady started wanting to be a wife , mother and grandmother again . |
| 10 | At first Wadland picked out mothers and rang claiming to be holding their daughters hostage . |
| 11 | Large empty pads of white paper lay waiting to be filled in . |
| 12 | Lang 's film was immediately hailed as a masterpiece especially with regard to its frighteningly real depiction of the prejudices and hysteria that lay waiting to be released in a typical Midwestern town . |
| 13 | Maria kept asking to be taken to the theatre . |
| 14 | All I kept asking for was my dog . |
| 15 | ‘ But all the time , that poor line we kept hearing about was of crucial significance , but for a totally different reason ! |
| 16 | Well , he could understand that , but he still thought it was a wasteful way of keeping the lower ranks occupied , and it did n't square at all with the continual excuses the seneschal and his minions kept making about being under-staffed . |
| 17 | In extremity , she kept trying to be pleasant . |
| 18 | Entering into consciousness — an obscure phrase — meant trying to be oneself on the canvas , without the props of a single familiar reference , and thus to be free of rhetoric , history , convention , other people , safety , the past . |
| 19 | Sir Roy went missing after being told that he had Parkinson 's disease . |
| 20 | New Zealand saved the follow-on after Nancy Williams defied doctor 's orders and resumed batting after being hit on the head by a fielder 's return . |
| 21 | Well we did at the beginning , cos he said apologizing for being in that position |
| 22 | Ken wrote asking to be forgiven for being ‘ a foolish old man ’ . |
| 23 | He had taken great pains to make it attractive ; green candles in crystal holders stood waiting to be lit and in the centre was a bowl of white miniature roses , their heads like pale ghosts against the polished wood . |
| 24 | In the front pew the couple sat waiting to be married . |