Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The white Straker family had long disappeared , their genes and blood melded into the vigorous bodies of their freed slaves , and only the Straker name lived on to be given new dignity by Bonefish and his family . |
| 2 | Regis equalled Christie 's 20.09sec British record as he clung on to be second behind America 's Mike Marsh . |
| 3 | The first thing that Nigel got down to was , as I expected , fixing up his hi-fi , and on our very first evening that vast area reverberated with the great big beautiful noise of ‘ Also sprach Zarathustra ’ , so I felt truly at home . |
| 4 | Several had considered maths or engineering , or both ; maths was generally dismissed as ‘ too theoretical ’ , while engineering was dismissed as ‘ too applied ’ : physics was held to be the perfect happy medium — applied enough to be ‘ relevant ’ ( a favourite adjective amongst both the science and the arts students ) , but theoretical enough to be stimulating and demanding . |
| 5 | On another occasion Ricky knocked Minton out on the platform of the Underground , afterwards propping him up on a bench until he recovered sufficiently to be walked home . |
| 6 | In spite of everything : Mr Bishop 's death , the wrecked kiosk , she felt happy because Simon cared enough to be worried about her . |
| 7 | The taxi driver , who asked only to be known as Terry , became the next victim of the knifeman . |
| 8 | He worked to revive her and eventually she recovered enough to be wrapped and put on the sledge . |
| 9 | So from there you moved on to being , being a crane driver ? |
| 10 | The UK Consumer 's Association has called for the establishment of an EC minimum requirement for minerals in " mineral water " , after a study of 29 popular brands found most to be virtually devoid of minerals . |
| 11 | Modigliani moved in to be with her for the last few days and at the end of November Jeanne entered the Nice Maternity Hospital . |
| 12 | His travellers appeared on the whole disappointed not to be cooked by cannibals . |
| 13 | She pretended not to be disappointed and there for the moment the matter rested . |
| 14 | It was thought extremely clever tactics when one team pretended not to be taking part in a tournament , and only joined in late in the day when all the other knights who had been fighting since soon after sunrise were exhausted . |
| 15 | ‘ He pretended not to be interested , I dare say . |
| 16 | On feet that tried desperately to be silent , Belinda crept away , not stopping or turning round until she reached the looming mass of the house . |
| 17 | He woke in the small hours , feeling cold , and moved over to be closer to Carolyn 's warm body . |
| 18 | Clarissa tried not to be disarmed , tried to fathom why such self-denigration was being paraded so abjectly before someone who only last week had been a figure of insult and derision . |
| 19 | Cameron III was embarrassed by the Smash Hits following and tried not to be a teen idol , whereupon he was celebrated all the more . |
| 20 | And though they tried not to be sad as she had asked , many were in tears as they listened to the reading Kelly had chosen . |
| 21 | Lucy tried not to be pushy , and Josie slowly thawed . |
| 22 | You did not have to be there in person in order to kill by poison ; in fact , you probably tried not to be . |
| 23 | She tried to look at the thing calmly and sensibly , tried not to be aware of Deana and Sarah whispering at a table only a few yards distant , but felt too hurt and shocked to be rational . |
| 24 | As they drove up to the main door Louise tried not to be emotional . |
| 25 | In addition to addressing the crowds as he journeyed through Galilee and around Jerusalem , he drew aside to be with his closest associates . |
| 26 | Perhaps they were wrong ; perhaps the spoke of the wheel on which he was clinging would never be swung over so hard by Lady Fortune that he would be prised loose and fall , limbs sprawling , like the figures on the rose window of the cathedral , while others — Tommaso , where was Tommaso now ? — rose up to be garlanded at chance 's whim . |
| 27 | Their small mission accomplished , Tennyson and Hallam sank back to being tourists , and Tennyson never forgot the scenery around Cauterets , which he associated for the rest of his long life with the happiness he had felt when travelling there with the beloved but now dead Hallam . |
| 28 | After a time he began to whisper in a voice that tried now to be soft and gentle , in complete contrast to his alarm calls : ‘ Come on , Minch , you ca n't really be so ill that you ca n't show me your face just for a moment , or let me hear the ruffle of one of your wings . |
| 29 | On the one hand there was nothing she wanted to do more , but on the other , well , she objected strongly to being at his beck and call . |
| 30 | ( The knife was a rather blunt penknife , not the sharp sheath knife Nick had hoped for , but it was better than nothing , and Carrie tried hard to be pleased with her Bible because Nick was grinning so slyly . ) |