Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Buzz did not feel like sitting in the small lounge at the Eastbourne hotel , which contained a great many genteel , inquisitive , elderly ladies , all of whom seemed to be knitting . |
| 2 | The Justice Police had sealed off the streets and were only allowing in members of parliament who agreed to be body-searched . |
| 3 | He had picked up a fare in the City — an army deserter called Percy Toplis , who asked to be driven to Basingstoke . |
| 4 | He put himself forward as a self-consciously ordinary man , a politician who asked to be identified with as an equal rather than deferred to as a leader . |
| 5 | But the group who were seeing Mr Hurd this week , or who asked to be associated with the visit , included the Tory backbenchers Sir John Biggs-Davison , Sir John Farr and Mr John Wheeler . |
| 6 | Granny Rocke , who lived to be ninety-two and had seven children , adopting three more who had been orphaned in Australia , could speak Welsh . |
| 7 | There were Chaloners who lived to be seventy or eighty , there were those who died in their youth or early manhood , and many others never reached their first birthday . |
| 8 | True , she was old , but Sara had always imagined she would be one of those people who lived to be a hundred and had a telegram from the Queen . |
| 9 | TWO four-year-old boys from ‘ intentionally homeless ’ families who applied to be rehoused by their council have no legal claim , the Court of Appeal ruled yesterday . |
| 10 | He did not hold staff meetings , and hardly consulted those who expected to be consulted , like the suffragan bishop or the archdeacons . |
| 11 | Those who expected to be met by family or friends were aware of the inconvenience the delay would be causing . |
| 12 | Cecil Rhodes , whom no one thought of as retiring and who expected to be remembered for a thousand years , chose , it will be remembered , as his instrument to achieve the infinite expansion of the British empire a secret society . |
| 13 | She did n't ask the question idly , but with the authority of one who expected to be kept informed of everything happening on the island . |
| 14 | His authoritative tone seemed to indicate the latter , giving the impression that here was a man who expected to be obeyed . |
| 15 | on the road to Damascus and saved him , but he did , it was a tremendous surprise to the Apostle Paul that the Lord had saved him at all , he never got over it , he called himself the chief of sinners , but God 's grace , God 's mercy had been revealed to him , you and I when we get to heaven are in for a few surprises , the grace , the mercy of God is far broader and wider than our imagination , we 'll meet a lot of folk there that we did n't expect to see that leads me to a fourth proposition , not only will some be saved that we did not expect to be saved , but it 's clear that others will not be saved who expected to be saved there 's a passage in Luke thirteen , verses twenty five , let me read them again one the head of the house gets up and shuts the door you begin to stand outside and knock on the door saying Lord open up to us and then he will answer and say to you I do not know where you 're from , then you 'll begin to say we ate and drank in your presence , you taught in our streets , we know you Lord , we rubbed shoulders with you , we went to church , we experience those things , we knew the answers to the re to the questions but he will say I tell you I did not know where you are from , depart from me all you evil doers those words make it quite clear , here , there 's words of Jesus , there 's references to those who profess , to know the Lord Jesus Christ , but who do not in fact know him at all , they know bits and pieces about him , they 've seen him , you know it 's in its immediate context , they had seen him in the street , they had heard his teaching , there maybe those who had been fed by the , by the miraculous er multiplying of the loafs and the fishes , they had seen the miracle , some of them may have been healed by Jesus , they knew lots about him but they did not know him and he says I do not know you how many folk there are like this , they expect to be saved , perhaps because they go to church , perhaps because they 've got Christian parents , perhaps because they read their bible , perhaps because occasionally when they 're in trouble they prayer , they 've been confirmed , they 've been baptized , that , that they 're good , they 're honest , they 're not rogues , they would n't do a , a , a bad turn to somebody , not deliberately , they 're nice people but they , they do n't know the truth of what it says in God 's word , they do n't know the truth of Romans three and verse twenty because by the works of the Lord no flesh will be justified in his sight for through the law comes the knowledge of sin , does n't come the forgiveness of it , they do n't know the truth of Ephesians chapter two verses eight and nine for by grace you 've been saved through faith and that not of yourselves it 's the gift of God , not as a result of works that no one should boast , for we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works which God prepared before hand that we should walk in them , they do n't know the truth of er , er of Titus , chapter three and , and verse five where , where the apostle Paul says there , he saved us not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness , but according to his mercy , how tragic it is to expect to be saved , to think you 're going to heaven and in the end to find that you 're not saved and Jesus says they 'll be many like that in that day . |
| 16 | And finally , only a year or so later , turned them out of house and home — put them on the street , as women who failed to be properly grateful to the fathers had been put for centuries . |
| 17 | The judge agreed to this , but continued to question the youngster , who admitted to be a professional pickpocket . |
| 18 | ( 72 ) Though the city was " full of idols " and he dared argue against paganism in the agora " with those who chanced to be there , " he met with intellectual curiosity rather than charges of impiety . |
| 19 | The Government really does believe that tenants have fallen victim to what William Waldegrave , who ceased to be Minister of Housing halfway through the Bill , called the dread drug of dependency . |
| 20 | Smallfry said that she was a wicked old woman who pretended to be nice just to trick people into liking her and believing her lies . |
| 21 | Bismarck was ‘ unwell ’ and the French emissary was reduced to seeking an interview with First Secretary Thile , who pretended to be totally ignorant of the whole business , which was a flagrant lie , and who said : ‘ In any case there are quite a few Princes … which one is it ? ’ |
| 22 | Hugh Griffiths , an outsize and very grand Welsh actor with eyebrows like handlebar grips , was there in full bucolic magnificence : there was a Welsh harpist who pretended to be a ghost , Rachel Roberts teamed up with Sybil as ‘ Lady Something or other ’ and they gossiped , knitted the acting village together , went on stage wearing wristwatches and nail varnish . |
| 23 | Compeyson is the man who pretended to be in love with her . ’ |
| 24 | This was enough to make many come , and among them they brought before me many women who pretended to be possessed ( as is their habit when they want to leave their houses to meet with their lovers ) and it was hoped that I could deal with them . |
| 25 | The band , who promised to be massive after an effortless rise to the top during the Manchester thingy in 1990 , eventually became a figure of fun in the music Press . |
| 26 | ‘ Well , I had an uncle who trained to be a pilot in the Canadian Air Force . |
| 27 | Mr. Bundy , a jobbing gardener , was about five feet in height but built like a tank whilst Mr. Cool , a clerk at Style and Gerrish , the main drapers in Salisbury , was a very quiet man who rose to be head of the firm 's Accounts Department . |
| 28 | To Johann Joachim Winckelmann ( 1717–18 ) , son of a Saxon cobbler , who rose to be a friend of cardinals and custodian of their books and antiquities , belongs the honour of having been the first and , in some ways , the most influential of these " thorough-going Romantics " . |
| 29 | The Edinburgh student appeared too consistent and resilient for Miss Topper who seemed to be struggling with the slippery court , and she triumphed 3–6 6–1 6–3 an impressive achievement for a No. 7 seed . |
| 30 | I took it to a couple of shops who just were n't interested and then to Macaris who seemed to be interested in buying it but who were being a bit funny about it to me . |