Example sentences of "[pers pn] proved [prep] [be] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yes , and you proved to be a warm and funny companion , gentle and sweet , and I was intrigued to discover why someone like you would pursue a man . |
| 2 | She proved to be a pleasant soul whose husband had been drowned at sea . |
| 3 | Despite her earlier fears , she proved to be an excellent subject , probably due in part to her desperation to be helped and partly to the fact that she had spent a week practising the relaxation technique and listening to my voice on cassette , so that she was comfortable with both . |
| 4 | Primarily , it proved to be no faster than contemporary piston engined fighters then flying , it was a poor gun platform due to a tendency to ‘ snake ’ while in flight and its range suffered from high fuel consumption . |
| 5 | When all the rendering was removed and interior studies made , it proved to be a late medieval first-floor hall house , and its appearance is now as in the lower picture . |
| 6 | It proved to be a long and painful process , starting at nine o'clock in the morning and ending at around three in the afternoon . |
| 7 | It proved to be a long , painful , and frustrating operation , which along the way provoked two serious insurrections against the regime , alienated much of the army , and left behind lifelong resentments . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , with all my lack of experience , the chairman of the division unhesitatingly gave me the responsibility for leading the mission , and it proved to be a turning point in my career . |
| 9 | But , on reaching it , it proved to be a good twenty feet taller than it appeared , for it grew from the floor of a protective circular sinkhole , perhaps forty yards across , and with vertical walls about twenty feet deep fringed by tangled thorny-vines and spider 's webs . |
| 10 | It proved to be a decisive victory for the Eighth Army and it was followed by further swift advances across northern Africa . |
| 11 | They married on 15 October 1753 , but it proved to be a short-lived union for she died only two years later . |
| 12 | It proved to be a resilient light , stable shoe with good and resilient overall cushioning . |
| 13 | Instead , for a number of reasons , it proved to be a key step in the development of the debate about integration in Islington . |
| 14 | It proved to be a disturbed , restless sleep . |
| 15 | It proved to be a large specimen of amber worth £3,000 . |
| 16 | It proved to be a human tooth , no doubt her own . |
| 17 | On closer examination it proved to be a medieval first-floor hall house , with solar , garderobe , seventeenth-century overflooring , and to have spent part of its time as a farmhouse . |
| 18 | It proved to be a naive if eventful wish . |
| 19 | It proved to be a conservative estimate Marshall Field , who arrived in Chicago with one dollar in his pocket built one of the worlds greatest department stores and had enough spare energy to partner Pullman in the railcar business , become vice-president of both General Electric and the Edison Company , president of United States Steel , founder of the Chicago Sun and a bank which became one of the four biggest in the world . |
| 20 | It proved to be a formative time . |
| 21 | However , the effect of this was negligible and as it proved to be an expensive exercise , it was an early casualty of government spending cuts . |
| 22 | When Derek Davy and I were trying to solve this one for a book which eventually appeared as Advanced Conversational English , it proved to be an expensive and time-consuming , but eminently worthwhile task . |
| 23 | With one liberal white and two coloured Africans reading , it proved to be an impassioned attack on apartheid . |
| 24 | It proved to be an uphill struggle , and was far from successful . |
| 25 | But when one of the squad emerged from the shop with the remains of the rucksack , and told police that he was unhappy about the cause of the fire , a full scale evacuation of the city centre was started in case it proved to be an incendiary device and in case others had been planted . |
| 26 | It proved to be the right approach . |
| 27 | The specification called for a fast vehicle with a low silhouette and when it was built , it proved to be the fastest tank in the British Army . |
| 28 | In the event it proved to be the wrong decision . |
| 29 | It proved to be the last London double-decker bus with the passenger 's entrance at the rear . |
| 30 | Surviving until 1932 , it proved to be the last newspaper published inside the country by that organisation . |