Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] to [be] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I mean I walk around the town and I see a factory or a shop or a house , it only got to be empty about a week and all the windows are smashed .
2 The Gnostic teacher , Cerinthus , was active in Asia Minor at the time when John wrote , and he taught that the heavenly Christ came upon the human Jesus only at his baptism , and left him before his passion : the union between them only seemed to be real -actually it was merely temporary .
3 He fluctuated between varying combinations of the defence of Saudi Arabia , the restoration of the Kuwaiti government and state integrity , the key strategic American interest in the Gulf , the oil supply , freedom and international law , and the much hinted-at wholesale destruction of a ruler and a Middle Eastern power recently supported but now suddenly discovered to be evil .
4 It only needed to be true enough of the time .
5 The dt route suddenly appeared to be promising , though there is still a long way to go as it takes 20 to 40 times this to make a muon in a particle accelerator .
6 We 'd end up with 350 MPs who all wanted to be prime minister .
7 I only wanted to be kind to the Dust Baby .
8 He no longer asked to be relieved of his archbishopric .
9 At one point , early on , this kid was counting out money and saying something like , you have n't got a choice there and if you do n't like it you can shop around , when we said , in a voice I 'd never heard before , a voice that no longer pretended to be nice , a voice that expressed all the effort of pretending to be so nice for so long .
10 ‘ But I just tried to be patient , and one day everything just started to be okay again .
11 Most of the friends were too old or too physically enfeebled to be capable of offering themselves for military glory .
12 He 'd read the script and already seemed to be familiar with Joyce 's published material .
13 As with Gabby , we had n't known them long — almost unbelievably less than two years , but they already seemed to be old friends .
14 Why was it that everyone she 'd met lately seemed to be obsessed with star signs ?
15 Applecross just happened to be central when Xenly was divided and so became the only building to be shared by each community .
16 This continent seems to have been created by Augustus Le Plongeon for his 1896 novel Queen Moo and the Egyptian Sphynx , which he claimed was based on original Mayan writings — which writings , of course , just happened to be unavailable to other scholars .
17 ‘ I just happened to be interested , that 's all , ’ she replied .
18 ‘ But I just tried to be patient , and one day everything just started to be okay again .
19 John Galliano and Vivienne Westwood continued thankfully on their own merry way and , though both regularly rummage through the past , they somehow managed to be forward-looking and new .
20 Paula was not very clever with her needle but she soon learned to be careful so as not to incur the wrath of the seamstress .
21 Somehow it seemed degrading to seek work this way , but vets no longer had to be anonymous .
22 Since the Secret Committee on the Peasant Question no longer had to be secret it was renamed the " Main " Committee in January 1858 .
23 If she was going to qualify for Wembley , she was going to have to do it on her own and Midnight just had to be good enough .
24 I just had to be patient , it was one of those things .
25 Only time would tell now whether it would go without mishap I just had to be patient .
26 One just had to be manly about it .
27 The obvious response — of summoning in an exterminator team — just had to be wrong .
28 Conversation thus tended to be laconic and allusive and it sometimes scarcely seemed to possess a thread of connection between one remark and the next : this was however an illusion , seductive enough to a stranger ignorant of background , all the more so to a stranger not fully in command of the language .
29 Because on this occasion the fame seemed such a foregone conclusion , there was less talk than usual about its progress , which was a disappointment to those on our side who desperately wanted to be able to display modesty about their achievements .
30 I just wanted to be private , to be able to choose whom I talked to , let alone where and when .
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