Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [vb past] to [be] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I had to be a bear till I got to the top of the mountain and then you have to look round to see , I wonder whether , who were those girls who were messing around over there ca n't stand that , mm , do something with them |
| 2 | Naturally she switched to being a char ! |
| 3 | Erm well okay fair enough you know , bu but there was , obviously there seemed to be an effort for , for , for them to get together . |
| 4 | So there had to be a slit or something . |
| 5 | So he studied to be a doctor , and went out to India . |
| 6 | Oh I think there 's no doubt about that and also their their their wages were low in the beginning you know and and their their their hard work that they 've put into it for the last you know I mean it had it I mean David Price says at the best of times is not easy to run a quarry you know you know and they they ha all work in a quarry so it had to be a cooperation and you know the management said you come up with us and and they were n't complaining actually about the wages it was quite good wages for . |
| 7 | Still driven by the storm they were carried west for some hours into another narrow passage , though now the current had reversed , so what appeared to be a great ebb-tide came rushing towards them . |
| 8 | The occasion was a closely kept secret , but somehow there seemed to be a ‘ leak ’ as photographers appeared from behind every tree and bush — one was even chased by a bull whilst crossing a field ! |
| 9 | ‘ Leithia Everett ? ’ questioned an all-masculine voice that did n't belong to any of her fellow workers either — though somehow it seemed to be a voice she 'd heard somewhere recently . |
| 10 | Thereafter he continued to be an influential committee-man until he returned to Ireland as a parliamentary commissioner in June 1649 . |
| 11 | Also it had to be a means by which children could assimilate knowledge through watching these serials , particularly the ones set in the past . ’ |
| 12 | Originally I wanted to be a doctor like my father , but it was soon clear I did n't have the intelligence for that — that 's to say I was n't any good at mathematics and physics and that sort of thing . |
| 13 | When I had first arrived I had seen a couple of press people milling around , but now there seemed to be a whole platoon of them , cameras at the ready . |
| 14 | ‘ Long ago I wanted to be a boatman . |
| 15 | Fabia felt the most unexpected warm glow inside that surely there had to be a compliment in there somewhere ? |
| 16 | No well it had to be a fair share out . |
| 17 | Then she pretended to be a mute — she always invented some oddness about herself when consorting with the preening rich boys of the city . |
| 18 | With Home Guard revolvers in the question , it would be a foolish man indeed who claimed to be a Nazi warlord . |
| 19 | But initially there had to be a real , genuine erm working class revolution and therefore Marx looked first to England because we were the most advanced and we 'd been in the business of running capitalism for s so much longer than any other country in the world . |
| 20 | Fortunately there proved to be a hidden foothold right at the base , which I hit just before dropping into space . |
| 21 | And then they had to be a for a certain length of time before they would be a master joiner . |
| 22 | I mean , I can remember him on this , er on this bike and then he rose to be a manager and er as he was , I say he was the manager fo er magistrate up until he retired last year . |
| 23 | Next came a pair of thick socks wrinkling about the ankles , and then what seemed to be a pair of men 's shoes . |
| 24 | On Monday she had gone to her job — improbably she appeared to be a supervisor for a market research firm — as usual , and could be vouched for by colleagues there . |
| 25 | Yet she managed to be a rather successful financial journalist . |
| 26 | In zoology , where again there seemed to be a former world of ‘ Dragons of the prime , That tare each other in their slime ’ in meaningless violence , the extinct animals could be seen as types of those now existing . |
| 27 | It was only twenty past nine when I went there yet there seemed to be a stream of folks ! |
| 28 | Herod Antipas , tetrarch ( a title for a ruler who was not considered important enough to have the rank of king ; again it amounted to being a ‘ governor ’ ) of Galilee . |
| 29 | Richard Nixon had been in the House and the Senate and vice-president for eight years , but ultimately he proved to be a disastrous president . |
| 30 | However what appeared to be a Bofors gun mounted on the fort on the breakwater , manned by three men , observed the aircraft and fired at it but did not obtain sufficient depression . |