Example sentences of "[pron] had [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had decided to be vague . |
| 2 | So the flooding had not been from the lake — which hitherto I had assumed to be the case ; maybe it had come from the river whose bed , now dried , I had seen from my eminence on the hillside . |
| 3 | I had grown to be a large , lumpy sort of man . |
| 4 | Right from the very start I had wanted to be a test-pilot . |
| 5 | I had wanted to be a nun before Nour had made me love him with his golden hair and his golden face and his golden eyes . |
| 6 | I had planned to be No 1 again some time next year . |
| 7 | And then , at 4 am one pitch-dark morning , I found myself where all along I had planned to be : standing on a steep hillside on a clifftop , waiting for the sun to rise on the world 's first dawn of the day . |
| 8 | ‘ I had intended to be , but I got a call from my special friend and spent the afternoon with him . ’ |
| 9 | I had hoped to be writing a birth report about how wonderful it is to use a large pool of warm water in labour . |
| 10 | I had hoped to be the editor of a book all on my own at last , but this project is important and so urgent that have been drafted on to help . |
| 11 | ‘ I had hoped to be gone so that I would not be obliged to face her . ’ |
| 12 | Yeah I just I guess I had hoped to be pleasantly surprised that it was n't rhetoric |
| 13 | ON Friday 26 June 1992 — nine months after I had applied to be a Winant and Clayton Volunteer — I flew from Heathrow to New York . |
| 14 | When Stephen was in hospital they kept us on the same house with all the mothers and babies , even though I had asked to be off it . |
| 15 | Coming as I did directly from higher education , I had expected to be treated as an adult and be allowed to explore my own educational needs during my three year RGN training , undertaken a few years ago . |
| 16 | Immediately the livingstonii swum up and gently nibbled my fingers — the last thing I had expected to be the cause of the tingling . |
| 17 | Life with Lisabeth in the flat , which I had expected to be anything but a rich pageant , turned out to be not half bad . |
| 18 | On Maundy Thursday , I had ceased to be a member of the top class Infants and now entered the Boys School , which at that time catered for seven to fourteen year olds — the latter being school leaving age . |
| 19 | I had ceased to be good at the convent , and now I also ceased to be either healthy or clever . |
| 20 | Already I had ceased to be sure which side I was on . |
| 21 | After the fish had settled in for a few days , one that I had thought to be a male showed signs of filling eggs , and developed a bright yellow patch on her belly . |
| 22 | I had tried to be first in order to get it over with quickly but now it was clear that I would be under the gaze of most if not all of the class . |
| 23 | I had tried to be discreet , as the subject was professional dynamite even when discussed in private with a great friend . |
| 24 | I had agreed to be co-author , but it was not until seven years after his retirement that work could begin , for only then had his committee activities abated to an extent which allowed the long periods necessary for writing and discussion . |
| 25 | I told him that I was English , an ex-paratrooper and that I had come to be a legionnaire . |
| 26 | If I had admitted to being cold , I should also have had to admit that I was hungry , and this was something I was incapable of doing — if only because I did n't believe it to be true . |
| 27 | I had to learn to be more relaxed about things , to let other people take over . ’ |
| 28 | It 's not my day really earlier today I had to admit to being grateful to John Gummer now I 'm gon na have to be . |
| 29 | Sad to say , I had learnt to be suspicious of good-looking young men who for no particular reason seemed to take a sudden interest in me . |
| 30 | Among the Cheka people high intellectual standards combined with education and culture had not assumed the outward expression which I had found to be so hateful among the former Russian intellectuals … . |