Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [adv] [vb past] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Richard Dunwoody always appeared to be going the best and Baydon Star was a comfortable four-length winner , with the third horse Mailcom 30 lengths away . |
| 2 | Greta Garbo even asked to be introduced to them . |
| 3 | We know that Dr Carrington ultimately asked to be allowed to die . |
| 4 | Sergeant Allen always liked to be ready early , to have everything buttoned up before the Troop Commander arrived : it got things off to a good start . |
| 5 | Neil Kinnock and Paddy Ashdown both chose to be filmed — on separate days — at the Travellers ' Club in Pall Mall , while John Major opted for Downing Street once again . |
| 6 | The puppet is an exhibit at a cartoon gallery in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford and the real Mr Heseltine just happened to be passing through . |
| 7 | He and Sir John now appeared to be bosom friends and I secretly wondered if the Santerres had suborned this bumbling servant of the crown . |
| 8 | A Hamilton spokesman yesterday refused to be drawn into the political controversy created by proposed pit closures . |
| 9 | We first met him at an elegant hotel in the ‘ uptown ’ district of Manhattan , New York , overlooking Central park , a watering place well known to artists ( Joe Cocker also happened to be in residence at the time ) . |
| 10 | But Lord Howe today refused to be drawn on the rumours . |
| 11 | On the trade unions too , the Thatcher government again proved to be more cautious than its language might imply . |
| 12 | LENNOX Lewis today pledged to be a truly British-based world champion . |
| 13 | Juliet could n't help thinking how elegant Moira Charles always appeared to be , never a blonde hair out of place , never a crease in her dress . |
| 14 | The Arabic , for example , is ambiguous in respect of whether it is the copy or the itself that Yusuf Bali — who held the kadilik of Bursa for a time in the 840s-wrote ; and , on the evidence of the signature alone , it seems entirely possible that at some point , perhaps during his kadilik , he made a copy of the which Molla Husrev subsequently attested to be a true copy . |
| 15 | In Romania from the late 1970s , the ubiquitous portraits of Nicolae Ceauşescu increasingly came to be replaced or to share prominence with pictures of the couple together . |
| 16 | The Christie family then seemed to be marked . |
| 17 | The Vietnam War really appeared to be near its end , and the economy , shaken by the rise in world oil prices and the inflation produced by the war , seemed to be on the mend . |
| 18 | Michael Banks actually seemed to be that man . |
| 19 | SALFORD JUNIORS again proved to be the giant killers in last weekend 's quarter-finals of the Burtonwood Brewery Lancashire Cup . |