Example sentences of "[vb past] to [be] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he flew up beside Cassowary and pretended to be listening to the song . |
| 2 | I pretended to be looking at some papers when the door opened and Grace Hinkle ushered in a sophisticated-looking female of about twenty-eight . |
| 3 | ‘ Make out we have n't seen him , ’ Otley said as he pretended to be searching for something in the grass . |
| 4 | Instead he went over to one of the shelves and pretended to be searching for a book . |
| 5 | James studied the title page and for twenty seconds pretended to be fascinated by the contents of page one . |
| 6 | He , man-like , pretended to be engrossed with his tea cup . |
| 7 | He pretended to be engrossed in making notes until the actors had left the room . |
| 8 | She pretended to be engrossed in exploring the room , and managed to keep a foot or so away from him as he followed , making her uncomfortably aware of the wall of his body close behind her while she ran her hands over the antique furniture with an assumed interest . |
| 9 | Penelope walked slowly away from the house , then pretended to be locking at an empty house which was to be sold two doors away from where Rupert lived . |
| 10 | Any financial assistance proposed to be given as part of the scheme would need to meet with the approval of the court . |
| 11 | to exercise the power contained in Article 134 ( B ) of the Articles of Association of the Company so that , to the extend determined by the Directors , the holders of Ordinary Shares be permitted to elect to receive new Ordinary Shares of 25p each in the capital of the Company , credited as fully paid , instead of all or part of any dividend declared or proposed to be declared at any time prior to or at the next Annual General Meeting of the Company ; and |
| 12 | Section 68(1) of the Trade Marks Act 1938 ( the interpretation section ) defines a trade mark as : a mark … used or proposed to be used in relation to goods for the purpose of indicating , or so as to indicate , a connection in the course of trade between the goods and some person having the right either as proprietor or registered user to use the mark , whether with or without any indication of the identity of that person . |
| 13 | The amount of any expenditure proposed to be incurred by the authority under any particular contract for the acquisition of property or the supply of goods or services . |
| 14 | As I understand the position , the condition proposed to be included in the order after [ In re O. ] would only apply to ‘ disclosure made in compliance with ’ the order sought and therefore not prevent the Crown Prosecution Service/Hampshire Constabulary utilising the material held and/or other material obtained independently of the present proceedings in the High Court . |
| 15 | As I understand the position , the condition proposed to be included in the order after [ In re O. ] would only apply to ‘ disclosure made in compliance with ’ the order sought and therefore not prevent the Crown Prosecution Service/Hampshire Constabulary utilising the material held and/or other material obtained independently of the present proceedings in the High Court . |
| 16 | ‘ As I understand the position , the condition proposed to be included in the order after [ In re O. ] would only apply to ‘ disclosure ’ made in compliance with the order sought and therefore not prevent the Crown Prosecution Service/Hampshire Constabulary utilising the material held and/or other material obtained independently of the present proceedings in the High Court . ’ |
| 17 | I 'm not saying that they are uneconomical , but there may be the odd one or two cases , like the of Berwick St James is a fine example , when it became uneconomical to maintain that school for the number of pupils which were attending , or proposed to be taken in the near future , and it was a sensible option for those children , and economically to close that school . |
| 18 | ( 5 ) Because of the exemption for anything done in pursuance of a scheme of arrangement under s153(3) ( e ) , it should in theory be possible for financial assistance proposed to be provided as part of the Court Scheme to be implemented immediately ( because the target is bound by the scheme when it becomes effective ) without the need to wait for the target to be re-registered as a private company and the private company exemption procedure followed . |
| 19 | In addition to that , it might interest you to know that er in excess of a further one hundred and sixty hectares of land is in our U D deposit version , U D P proposed to be released on greenfield sites on the edge of the built up areas . |
| 20 | Then faster and faster , as she rose to be joined with him in every sense of the word . |
| 21 | The sum , substantially in excess of estimates by the country 's central bank which had recently estimated borrowing to pay for war costs at around $10,000 million [ see also pp. 37987 ; 38166 ; 38212 ] , was expected to cover current expenditure reported to be running at some $20,000 million . |
| 22 | It contained many names : journalists whom he deemed to be lacking in a proper respect , politicians ( like Joshua Morris ) who had made jokes at Mrs Thatcher 's expense , Booker Prize judges . |
| 23 | I can understand that with competitions it is correct for employees of all companies involved to be excluded from entry , but surely there is not a problem in selling Hovis to your employees , or any other product for that matter ? |
| 24 | In February the European Commission proposed a directive requiring waste producers , handlers and the governments involved to be informed of the details of each shipment , a measure with which the European Parliament , on 14 April , roundly agreed . |
| 25 | Another 17.93 per cent he found to be living in ‘ secondary ’ poverty , i.e. their income was above the minimum but Rowntree 's investigators described them as ‘ obviously living in a state of poverty , i.e. in obvious want and squalor ’ . |
| 26 | His wife 's body was exhumed and found to be riddled with arsenic . |
| 27 | The direction of a subject 's first eye movement following a question was recorded and found to be related to the type of question being asked . |
| 28 | Dodman was driving a van found to be loaded with the stolen property . |
| 29 | Mutant recombinants were constructed by site directed mutagenesis of the G-residues found to be methylated in the DMS-interference analysis . |
| 30 | Bold Gs show the guanines found to be methylated in the methylation interference analysis . |