Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [adv] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was no famine and for most urban residents conditions of life improved during the 1920s — 1930s , but cities were by no means the havens of wealth and prosperity that hostile or covetous agricultural ideologues made them out to be . |
| 2 | But Susan hit back saying : ‘ She made me out to be some ditsy small-town mum who wanted to meet a star . |
| 3 | ‘ I suppose he made me out to be some kind of thief ! |
| 4 | ‘ I suppose she made me out to be a right little idiot , ’ says Anya . |
| 5 | ‘ They made me out to be a hooligan , which I 'm not . ’ |
| 6 | er , when you know you go home and lying on the doormat on the Friday night is a great tome of paper that came second post which made me out to be the biggest idiot philanderer , thief , cheat and liar in the world |
| 7 | After the discovery of consignments of hospital waste , including syringes and blood bags , in a quarry rubbish tip in eastern France , French customs officers intercepted at least 20 German trucks , and found them also to be carrying hospital waste , sometimes mixed with ordinary domestic rubbish . |
| 8 | Edward advised me not to be fooled by this open confession of fraud : it was an early exercise in disinformation . |
| 9 | When Jesus was warning his followers about his own forthcoming death he told them not to be worried or upset but to put all their trust and confidence in him and in God . |
| 10 | Whereupon Luke lost his temper and told them not to be such fucking chauvinists . |
| 11 | ‘ Mills laughed in their faces and told them not to be so silly . ’ |
| 12 | She told me not to be embarrassed about asking Diana to do the washing up and so on . ’ |
| 13 | He told me not to be impulsive and think it over , but I sha n't stay . |
| 14 | She told me not to be silly and went and reported me . |
| 15 | I met our Tony and Helen as I was coming here and they told me not to be long . |
| 16 | ‘ I told you that , ’ said Sam , indignantly , ‘ and you told me not to be so stupid . ’ |
| 17 | He once told me not to be afraid as my death was many years off and would come in a way I least expected . |
| 18 | Mum told me not to be so silly . |
| 19 | Then he added that times were hard for small farmers and told me not to be in a hurry to send in the account . ’ |
| 20 | Davide is against him , he came and told me afterwards to be careful . |
| 21 | There seemed nothing else to be said , and Melissa went out of the room and upstairs to the secretary 's office , where , in response to her request to use the phone , Marie-Claire grudgingly pushed the instrument across her desk . |
| 22 | He brushed the newspaper angrily off his lap and told himself not to be a fool . |
| 23 | His fingers touched hers and his heart gave a jolt , but she seemed perfectly in command of herself and had apparently felt nothing , so he told himself not to be a dope , and carried his coffee back to the chesterfield . |
| 24 | But he told himself not to be crazy . |
| 25 | It appeared on the evidence that he believed himself not to be liable ; but he knew that the plaintiffs thought him liable , and would sue him if he did not pay , and in order to avoid the expense and trouble of legal proceedings against himself he agreed to a compromise ; and the question is , whether a person who has given a note as a compromise of a claim honestly made on him , and which but for that compromise would have been at once brought to a legal decision , can resist the payment of the note on the ground that the original claim thus compromised might have been successfully resisted … . |
| 26 | The court suggests that if the defendant ( D ) had ( wrongly ) believed himself to be liable to pay the charges , he would not have been liable on the notes ; but , because he ( rightly ) believed himself not to be liable to pay the charges , he is liable on the notes . |
| 27 | Jay resented him immediately , and immediately told herself not to be stupid . |
| 28 | She quickly told herself not to be ridiculous , that she did not believe in any of that mumbo jumbo . |
| 29 | She obviously had not noticed anything out of the ordinary , and Dorothy told herself not to be a fool imagining things . |
| 30 | She told herself not to be stupid , but stopped to draw breath . |