Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] be [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You two and Philippe Maurin pretended to be her friends , but look what happened to her . ’ |
| 2 | He was using the middle classes as a reference group ; aspiring to what he believed to be their values of ‘ honour ’ and ‘ duty ’ . |
| 3 | I saw it as a choice of what I believed to be my obligations , how I see motherhood . |
| 4 | There was Abdullah Ali , a businessman in exile , who was known to Rashid , and who had eaten in a restaurant in London with men he believed to be his friends , who had died in St Stephen 's Hospital of a rat poison that had been sprinkled on his food during a moment of inattention . |
| 5 | But it was useless appealing to a man who always did what he believed to be his duty , however unpleasant it was . |
| 6 | I registered in Room 304 which came to be my home for the next three years . |
| 7 | Molyneux was both sponsored and trained by his forerunner , who came to be his mentor ( Knebworth , no date , p.31 ) . |
| 8 | The ancient communities , at every level of their being , and in their virtues as well as their vices , were implacable custodians of what they imagined to be their rights . |
| 9 | Solidly built , comfortably furnished , cleanliness and efficiency seemed to be their hallmarks . |
| 10 | A girl had been murdered and their sole concern seemed to be its effect on their own convenience . |
| 11 | The other was a middle-aged woman , also Italian , who seemed to be her friend . |
| 12 | This fight between Ted and Jean seemed to be her life 's single pleasure , and who could blame her ? |
| 13 | Because of his death , aged just forty-two , he is also thought of as a tragic figure , a man who was unable to fulfil the important public service to his people that seemed to be his destiny . |
| 14 | They seemed to be his servants . |
| 15 | It took an hour to free the Nissan from what I assumed to be its grave , and persuade its bent and battered metal to press on southwards . |
| 16 | ‘ On one occasion , I rang his home and a woman I assumed to be his wife answered . |
| 17 | Turning around , she found herself facing the dark , handsome-looking woman who 'd arrived with Ross Aldridge and whom Diane assumed to be his wife . |
| 18 | However , Tess began to find that the cows which came to her usually happened to be her favourites . |
| 19 | She happened to be my fiancée . |
| 20 | ‘ Which happened to be my train , ’ the tall blonde offered uneasily , ‘ already two hours late from Plymouth . ’ |
| 21 | It happened to be my birthday — I 've never had or am likely to have a better birthday dinner , I do n't mind being a year older every year for this ! |
| 22 | Known throughout the army as ‘ le Capucin Botté ’ ( the Fighting Friar ) , in his entourage de Castelnau was always accompanied by his own private chaplain , a Rabelaisian Jesuit who also happened to be his nephew . |
| 23 | Hincmar of Rheims wrote to give orders to a neighbouring count who just happened to be his kinsman : it is not hard to see how an archbishop might refer to the local counts collectively as " his " , or the draftsman of a capitulary write in general terms of " archbishops and their counts " . |
| 24 | ‘ For they are a proud and fierce race and would kill any that claimed to be their kin who was not . ’ |
| 25 | Now in sporting legend the All Blacks take some beating … but when it comes to the greatest in any sport … there 's just one name … that 's Muhammed Ali … he 's over here at the moment and has made a surprise call on an Oxfordshire man reckoned to be his number one fan . |
| 26 | Mies Hoornik-Bouhuys , a writer and broadcaster , said that her late husband succeeded in tracing Willem , after being told by Jan Hulsker that the prostitute Vincent lived with was his aunt . |
| 27 | Part of the file was a genotyping — a comparison of the child 's genetic material to that of a man alleged to be his father . |
| 28 | All Mr Morraine talked about was his rocks and some said he even used them as pillows . |
| 29 | She also spied the McPhersons to her left standing on the roof of what she presumed to be their house . |
| 30 | Neighbours said one of the arrested men moved into a flat just before Christmas and lived with a woman presumed to be his wife and two sons in their mid-teens . |