Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [vb past] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was suffering from a virus and was n't really fit , so all things considered I had to be happy with my performance , ’ he said . |
| 2 | James had stayed behind and Lewis had been sullen for the half-hour or so they 'd been walking before suddenly announcing he wanted to be alone . |
| 3 | Because he he want he wanted to be married at nine o'clock in the morning for a start off . |
| 4 | Do n't be confused by the Japanese ensign on this one … its owner , the pop star Gary Numan , says he wanted to be different . |
| 5 | He had a clean , bare style ; when writing he seemed to be able to slip the burden of his personality as he could never do face to face . |
| 6 | It was cruel of Miss Havisham to encourage me to hope , but I do n't think she meant to be unkind . ’ |
| 7 | I did n't think you wanted to be bored by that again and Alan 's back on there so er where are you there you are right . |
| 8 | This time I 've got no crazy , pointless altruism restraining me , and you must long since have discarded whatever distorted idealism made you believe you had to be faithful to Jones in fact and thought , since you claim to have had at least one other relationship between your spells with him . |
| 9 | At first I had suggested that I should keep her company but she dismissed the idea at once : ‘ I am not a child , and I refuse to be treated as one ’ , and I guessed she wanted to be alone rather as a young girl might who sets out to post an imaginary letter , hoping to meet on the way the person for whom she has made herself beautiful . |
| 10 | The Treasury reckons it needed to be sure of the trend . |
| 11 | We realised we had to be able to rely on good raw ingredients — that 's why we started farming . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ How much sailing did you say you 'd done ? ’ he enquired in that soft even tone she knew to be lethal . |
| 13 | ‘ I would have preferred to have given them a run chase but I then decided we had to be positive and get whatever we could out of the match , ’ said Moxon . |
| 14 | For plastering they had to be fresh and supple with the green leaves still intact . |
| 15 | To be sure of providing physicists with details of the world beyond the standard model , the SSC 's designers decided it had to be able to make particles with masses of one trillion electron volts ( 1TeV ) . |
| 16 | ‘ I suppose he wanted to be sure , ’ Major Harvey suggested . |
| 17 | I believe he wanted to be kind but I did n't go . |
| 18 | ‘ I knew I had to be tolerant of any mechanical faults which were bound to surface during the year , ’ he says . |
| 19 | Despite the pain and the worry , Olivia knew she had to be brave for the sake of her six-year-old daughter Chloe , she told Hello ! magazine . |
| 20 | Juliet knew she had to be tactful . |
| 21 | ‘ He knew you wanted to be independent , ’ Damian Flint said coolly . |
| 22 | Anyway , I thought you wanted to be sure about who was organizing it . ’ |
| 23 | Sergei and Masha came to my room and I opened a bottle of mineral water : we all felt we needed to be abstemious . |
| 24 | She looked so much better than the fat , spreading South London mothers around us , that I thought we had to be middle class . |
| 25 | Shelley looked at the happy faces of her companions , and knew they wanted to be alone , however sweet they were being . |
| 26 | But when she was composed again , he felt he had to be cruel . |
| 27 | Oh Major I bet he wanted to be right from being a kid , wanted to be prime minister . |
| 28 | She could n't help but wonder what he was thinking , and allowed herself a sour internal smile at the thought that only she and Ace knew he had to be wrong . |
| 29 | But he knew he had to be patient . |
| 30 | When the verdict came down over the radio earlier that afternoon , I thought it had to be some kind of misunderstanding — a joke . |