Example sentences of "[vb past] it [adv] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a charming letter , a well-managed mixture of humility and boastfulness , and she sent it down to be typed with a feeling of smugness . |
| 2 | Emma : Publicity 's a tiger which can turn and rend The man who thought it once to be his friend . |
| 3 | Diane filled in an order form for a Jenner Clinic catalogue and took it over to be processed while Reynolds waited , arms folded and leaning against a pillar by the card files . |
| 4 | So he took it in to be looked at . |
| 5 | While the more organised approach culminated in the proposed ‘ primary and secondary host ’ plan , the realities made it hard to be quite so regimented . |
| 6 | The Gainsborough films that best characterize the desire of filmmakers to close their eyes to the darker currents in society , to make believe that the world really is as cosy as some wartime films made it out to be , are Holiday Camp ( 1947 ) and the three sequels set amongst the jolly Huggett family . |
| 7 | Rats , this heroine business was n't the cool breeze Vanessa Vail made it out to be . |
| 8 | And so those who devised all age worship in the in the sort of early eighties or late seventies , when it was the thing , devised it either to be just worship , or to be both education and worship . |
| 9 | I never did like drag shows and I did n't want to spend the evening in the pub but I did it just to be with gay people . |
| 10 | I , I would n't honestly say that it , he did it deliberately to be honest . |
| 11 | When asked by the masters where it came from , he put it down to being ‘ good with my tongue ’ , and they nodded sagely , wondering why he smiled . |