Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [noun sg] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | this lad was , now he was , coming in the bar , he sat just as you come in the door and then he moved to that long thing where we sit , well I go at the bar and Jackie was sat there Jackie , I said time to be social , no I cos I laugh , I were laughing me head off me and he 's jabbering away move like that , his arms moving you know , then he sets off to sing , well , la , la and Johnny said shut up I know Johnny put his glass of beer on the next table to ours and sets off to see Mickey , then he stands up this lad sit down you , must have thought for his beer , I think he was like , I says to Jack I says er you want to put his trousers is all undone , you know sat and his trousers what and his jumper , so our Johnny went he said get that covered up and , but he pulled it down like that , and now he took 'em out he walked through the door and his trousers were falling down but |
| 2 | Later , I had cause to be grateful for that clause . |
| 3 | Naturally , I wanted Mum to be at the first night , and Dad too . |
| 4 | I wanted mother to be sitting waiting for me with cakes in the oven and ready to listen to my tales of school . |
| 5 | But when she reached the office she found concentration to be almost impossible , and within a short time she became impatient with herself . |
| 6 | However , in the manner of all philanthropists , she believed thrift to be the more correct solution . |
| 7 | She believed privacy to be a key requisite for a peaceful life . |
| 8 | Giving her reasons for that the mother said that she wished access to be resumed at some point in the future , that D remembered her as the natural mother , and there was a bond between them which would be cut off or damaged by adoption . |
| 9 | I do n't think any of the five of us could ever remember Laura being cross — not that she had need to be , we were good and reasonable children , always having been treated reasonably , but she had her moments of trial . |
| 10 | She had reason to be wary , reason to act cool . |
| 11 | She had reason to be depressed this time . |
| 12 | Rain was no more vague than she had reason to be . |
| 13 | She wanted life to be like it had been earlier that evening . |
| 14 | First she wanted Dot to be nice , next she wanted her to put a filthy thumb in her mouth and suck it . |
| 15 | Nora had smiled at and nodded to Wolff several times but the affair was almost over before they found occasion to be casually alone together . |
| 16 | They understood faith to be an assent of the mind as agreeable to reason as assenting to the existence of objects on a table . |
| 17 | Well , as kind as they had time to be . |
| 18 | Did you say he told Fiver to be quiet ? " |
| 19 | He considered him as he caused coffee to be produced and established them at the big table at the other end of his room . |
| 20 | Lucien told them that he believed Jeopardy to be a shallow individual , an offence to the art of Vibrancy . |
| 21 | At a press conference on April 25 , Li Peng said that he believed perestroika to be of a socialist orientation , and " earnestly hoped " that stability would prevail in the Soviet Union . |
| 22 | Instead , he ordered parliament to be summoned for a special session on Nov. 7 at which V. P. Singh would be given the opportunity to prove his government 's viability . |
| 23 | Commenting on the sentence He saw flight to be impossible , Cotte observes ( p. 71 ) : Ici , pas de perception physique , mais un jugement sur flight , posé avant be impossible , qui lui est attribué au terme d'une réflexion ; to s'impose car la deuxième prédication n'est pas un donné perçu globalement et existant indépendamment de see , mais une construction do nt l'actualité n'est posée qu'en guise de conclusion . |
| 24 | However , when he felt psychoanalysis to be threatened by others , such as Jung and Tausk , he surrounded himself with less questioning people than these . |
| 25 | His only comment was that it took work to be a politician : ‘ I 'd get caught out . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I remember when I was in 6th grade and Reagan was elected and he voted ketchup to be deemed a vegetable , for schools . ’ |
| 27 | He liked life to be predictable and orderly . |
| 28 | He insisted he had permission to be there — a story he repeated to police . |
| 29 | He had cause to be ; a number of the clergy who compiled the 1801 Returns saw the improving larger farmer as a mixed blessing , likely to be more interested in maximising his profits than in keeping prices reasonable , ‘ the cause of the dearness of Butcher 's meat , cheese , etc. etc … . it destroys the comforts of the lower class of society ’ . |
| 30 | He had reason to be touchy about Nechaev . |