Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [vb pp] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd only wanted to be alone ! |
| 2 | It was no good saying in her defence that she 'd only meant to be Cara Kingsdale for an hour , because things had n't worked out that way . |
| 3 | He 'd only got to be told by Charlie that he 'd be leaving the High Street by the bridge and walking along the local river . ’ |
| 4 | She 'd long dreamed of being desired by a man whose need was so overwhelming that he would do anything to be with her . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'd kinda hoped to be alone here tonight . |
| 6 | I 'd just wanted to be somewhere where people knew what they were doing . |
| 7 | What intrigued me was their mutual indifference to an activity I 'd always imagined to be both intimate and passionate . |
| 8 | I 'd always wanted to be famous . |
| 9 | I 'd always wanted to be a comedian at school , I 've always been obsessive about comedy , and if I 'd been rubbish it would have been a bit problematic . ’ |
| 10 | I 'd always wanted to be famous . |
| 11 | ‘ He said he 'd always wanted to be a dad ’ |
| 12 | He 'd always wanted to be a blacksmith and he learned by doing the job . |
| 13 | He had certainly researched Grantham and Marsh and the testimonial Sebastian had purportedly given her was in line with the high regard in which she had been told she was held by the company , although she 'd hardly expected to be given such a glowing recommendation . |
| 14 | Bush has pledged cooperation until Clinton 's inauguration on January 20 and seemed almost relieved to be through with a vicious campaign . |
| 15 | Actually I 'd never thought of being an actress . |
| 16 | Stephenson grew increasingly irritated at being ignored by the owners and the newspapers . |
| 17 | It seems to me entirely up to him , if he so wished , and his group , if they felt there needed to be more money spent on highways structural maintenance to have moved other bids up to priority order when discussing the capital budget . |
| 18 | I felt truly honoured to be asked on The Morecambe and Wise Show and I still do — I regard my appearance with them as the apotheosis of my career and I do n't say that lightly or gratuitously . |
| 19 | It had been successful up to the 1960s , but had latterly declined to being used as a bingo hall . |
| 20 | What had once been the greatest and most prosperous of Elf realms had effectively ceased to be . |
| 21 | By the time it published the first issue of its bulletin , STOP , in February 1980 the DUC had effectively changed from being an information and research group into an opposition group , as the bulletin made clear : ‘ After investigation into the hazards related to uranium and its by-products , the DUC feels that since uranium can not be mined safely , exploration should cease . ’ |
| 22 | At the same time she had fiercely wanted to be proud of Phoebe , to support Phoebe 's admirable fight on her behalf . |
| 23 | They had all appeared to be like men when they were sixteen , especially Mick . |
| 24 | His smiles , his glances , his gentle intimacies … somehow they had all seemed to be pointing in that direction . |
| 25 | However , it had all seemed to be so very easy at first . |
| 26 | Could it now transpire , wondrously , that his private entreaty to the Godfather of All had only begun to be granted ? |
| 27 | If Eliot had only managed to be funnier , some had come to feel , he would also have been more accurate . |
| 28 | She almost groaned aloud at her ignorance in over-reacting in such a childish way to what , obviously , he had only meant to be an amusing conversational gambit . |
| 29 | But she had so wanted to be left alone for a while . |
| 30 | He was approaching the big speech about the Hooded Owl , the speech which Malcolm Harris had rightly claimed to be the centre of his play , the speech that the star had not once got through since he had abandoned his script . |