Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [vb past] to be " in BNC.
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| 31 | On one of our south coast patrols I managed to be in at the kill on what turned out to be one of our more amusing combined operations . |
| 32 | ‘ When I was a girl I wanted to be an actress . |
| 33 | Lochinver was a magnet , largely because of the strange mountains I knew to be in its vicinity , and I longed to go there . |
| 34 | ‘ My friend , no wonder you wanted to be alone this afternoon . |
| 35 | To qualify as a model foster parent you had to be at the wealthier level of the middle class , with an already established family ; it helped if you lived in the country ( away from urban enticements ) , spoke a little German , and could tolerate moody children who suffered bouts of depression and were inclined to long silences . |
| 36 | like I once read a book where this girl she wanted to be a doctor and they brought her to a nursery for work experience |
| 37 | The girl she spoke to was as nice as pie . |
| 38 | For other people at work they seemed to be such joyous occasions . |
| 39 | Mrs Pember Reeves found that housewives in Lambeth were reluctant to move away and forego the help they knew to be available in times of need , for neighbourliness implied reciprocity . |
| 40 | More and more fruits they seemed to be importing in those days , all colours . |
| 41 | In the rural high oil category , where incidence increased significantly in 1979–83 ( table II ) , the peak moved during that period to age 2 as in urban areas , remaining there in 1984–8 ; in other rural areas it continued to be at age 3 . |
| 42 | The NAO report , however , found that some areas had been neglected , notably air , as the inspectorate concentrated its resources on those areas it considered to be priorities such as nuclear sites . |
| 43 | And of course on the morning it was difficult to tell because before he took the first test he appeared to be fine until really the , the very last minute . |
| 44 | After a week in this confusion , and because the inn-keeper , a fervent anti-royalist , suspected that Grandfather Denknetzeyan was not the commoner he pretended to be , the young cadet decided to return to his family home in Talica , a small farming community between Ekaterinberg and Tobolsk in western Siberia . |
| 45 | When a twelfth-century knight rode into a tournament or into battle he hoped to be worthy either of his lineage or of his lady ; earlier he had thought only of his ancestors . |
| 46 | To his friends in England he seemed to be inactive . |
| 47 | From obscure origins he rose to be the best-known Wiltshire clothier of his day , famous in the 1540s for his use of the buildings of Malmesbury Abbey as industrial workshops . |
| 48 | But like Rome and Compostela it began to be popular in the tenth and eleventh centuries . |
| 49 | The immediate object was to get to the lode ( Fleming 's Vein it came to be called ) , estimated to be some 25 fathoms ahead . |
| 50 | Through assiduous exercise he came to be strong enough to ride and march with his troops . |
| 51 | ( In a secondary school where this was regularly used in morning prayers it had to be abandoned because the pupils exploited the rhythm created by the parallelism to make it sound like a football chant ! ) |
| 52 | Yet we knew that if a programme was going to work it had to be ‘ user friendly ’ — we had had enough of diet and exercise books written by doctors and self-proclaimed experts . |
| 53 | By July he hoped to be able to meet Butcher at Cheam , a property where the fourth Duke had spent his early married life ; but only if the weather proved favourable , ‘ for I have had the Rheumatism so bad of late , as to make me fearful of riding in the wet ’ . |
| 54 | When she demanded whether there were any suspicious circumstances he refused to be drawn and took over the questioning : ‘ Why did n't you say Ayling was here on Friday ? ’ |
| 55 | But if he had nothing to do with the kidnapping of that girl it seemed to be too much of a coincidence that he should have appeared just then . |
| 56 | Chivalrous to a fault , the story of his taking only £100 of the £400 he knew to be aboard a stagecoach at Bagshot , on the condition that an attractive lady passenger would dance with him , is authentic . |
| 57 | In this surmise he proved to be correct , so Lucy hurried to her room , where she changed her clothes and attended to her make-up . |
| 58 | She spent more and more time off her eggs , parading about the yard , cackling as if demented and taking sudden rushes in whatever direction she happened to be facing when each fit of frenzy overcame her . |
| 59 | But , pushing him aside , she gathered her cloak around her , made so bravely from those two old plush tablecloths , and began to walk downhill — the direction she happened to be facing — until she came to St Jude 's churchyard where she sat on a gravestone , her head in her hands , and shivered . |
| 60 | The only place I seemed to be able to reach you was in bed . |