Example sentences of "[vb past] to be [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We always promised to be at each other 's wedding , and if I do n't turn up she 'll be upset . |
| 2 | But the transformation was quite extraordinary over the festive season , and the team deserved to be in that position by the end of their campaign . |
| 3 | I gave talks on those subjects the participants judged to be of most interest ( e.g. tense and aspect , sentence connexion ) , and the Workshop progressed from the theoretical basis of communicative grammar to descriptive topics , and finally ( in the last two days ) to detailed devising and planning of teaching materials . |
| 4 | For them , theory consisted of broad speculation which seemed to need little in the way of systematic data collection , while for empirical research on social life , such theories seemed to be of little relevance . |
| 5 | Thus the financial health of the company seemed to be of more importance than the community 's concern over the health of its children . |
| 6 | My leg muscles seemed to be in some daze of quivering tension . |
| 7 | But suppose I had found a watch upon the ground , and it should be inquired how the watch happened to be in that place ; I should hardly think of the answer which I had before given , that for anything I knew , the watch might have always been there . |
| 8 | He just happened to be in this area on the night of Rob 's party . |
| 9 | I had a friend , she now manages the Eurythmics with her husband , but at that time , none of us needed to be in such luxury but none of us said no if it was offered and DeFries always observed the Noel Coward code and said , ‘ You should travel through life first class . ’ |
| 10 | The man in the doorway was certainly old and infirm , and none too reliable either , but when he ceased to be of any use to the Guild as a working docker , they had found him a sinecure job as night watchman on the Wharf . |
| 11 | And Tutilo was indeed a brother , and at large that night , and expected to be upon that path . |
| 12 | But that 's what you got to be in this job . |
| 13 | I never chose to be in this position . ’ |
| 14 | And when Eagles ' David Mycoe grabbed a try in the 45th minute Wigan looked to be in some danger . |
| 15 | So it proved to be on this occasion . |
| 16 | Emerson revealed that both those who continued working and those who retired ‘ appeared to be to some extent affected by rather garbled information concerning retirement impact ’ ( Emerson 1959 ) . |
| 17 | Although President George Bush won the primary , his margin of victory over right-wing challenger Patrick Buchanan was unconvincing , and by the end of the month the Bush campaign appeared to be in some disarray . |
| 18 | His brain , never an overactive organ even on those rare moments when it was n't pickled in alcohol , grappled with the fact that he appeared to be in some sort of tent before triumphantly reaching the conclusion that he was at a party . |
| 19 | Cautious of it , of course , as one had to be in any den of thieves where pickpockets and cut-purses abounded . |
| 20 | He wanted to be through this valley . |