Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [be] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It promised to be another brilliant day . |
| 2 | All in all , it promised to be another heavenly day , she thought , feeling her spirits rise almost perceptibly . |
| 3 | Her turquoise swimsuit was already being remorselessly dispensed with , and as further protests were silenced by Guy 's laughing mouth covering hers , and her writhing body was explored by his skilful fingers , the laughter was replaced by something much more urgent and potent , as Guy tossed the clinging garment aside , and spread-eagled his wife with breathtaking impatience across the towel , proceeding to demonstrate an audacious variation on what promised to be another perfectly designed performance … |
| 4 | I pretended to be another friend , and asked for your phone number . " |
| 5 | To regard these as distinct interests , each of which sustains a set of values , allows us to reformulate the question of the relative scope of holist and individualist theories which we found to be such a pressing one . |
| 6 | Battery life is stated is stated to be around 9 hours but I found to be less than this . |
| 7 | What I found to be more than a little disconcerting was the feeling of drowning . |
| 8 | The more she tried to be that person the more I lost my sense of who I 'd fallen for in the first place . |
| 9 | The War Office Section MO 9 came into being that afternoon and began steps to raise the special force of commandos named after those Boer farmers of the South African war . |
| 10 | The Spadeadam Rocket Establishment came into being some time after 1950 when the Cold War was at its height . |
| 11 | The Examination Council came into being some erm nine months ago and has already been involved in quite a lot of activity , I mean particularly the erm problem of sixteen-plus examining , whether we should move from a system of erm O-levels and C S E , or to a combined system , Sixteen-plus Examination it would probably be called . |
| 12 | Putting data into a spreadsheet is simplicity itself , but remembering where that data came from is another matter . |
| 13 | A murder hunt was launched yesterday after a body , believed to be that of Monica Cantwell , aged 24 , from Lingfield , Surrey , was found in New Zealand . |
| 14 | He had ascertained during daylight that the lavatory was diagonally across the passage from his room door , and , as the passage was now unlit and he was unable to find the light switch , he crossed the passage in the dark and , by feeling his way , came to a door which he believed to be that of the lavatory , but which was in fact a door leading to the basement . |
| 15 | For someone who worked in what she believed to be such a hard-nosed profession he retained a sensitive streak . |
| 16 | He took the envelope from Sandison who also handed over what he believed to be enough money to cover the postage . |
| 17 | The bodies of two young people , believed to be those of missing German student Linda Bohlen and her boyfriend , have been found on Skye . |
| 18 | Soon , he lost track of time and it was after what he judged to be many days , he was heartened to hear , occasionally , the far-off sound of metal on rock as his friends tried to clear a way through to him . |
| 19 | She waited thus for what she judged to be half an hour , moving a few steps to and fro to keep warm whenever the coast was clear . |
| 20 | The received wisdom about reform came to be that ‘ research shows that nothing works ’ , that ‘ whatever you do to offenders makes no difference ’ , although this was always an exaggeration . |
| 21 | The sign contains sufficient of the content of the thing signified to be more than a symbol . |
| 22 | The immediate object was to get to the lode ( Fleming 's Vein it came to be called ) , estimated to be some 25 fathoms ahead . |
| 23 | When Palmer made a hash of a perfectly weighted through pass from Dozzell two minutes from the end , that seemed to be that . |
| 24 | The likeliest explanation seemed to be that , in the autumn of 1986 , Control had indicated to the DEA that Coleman had worked for the DIA in the past but , as he was no longer active , the agency had no objection to his taking up a consultant 's job with Hurley on Cyprus . |
| 25 | Michael Banks actually seemed to be that man . |
| 26 | That seemed to be that then . |
| 27 | There seemed to be little hope for the future , just a mundane job and low pay and fewer prospects for meeting the opposite sex once university days were over . |
| 28 | Following this there was considerable despondency amongst the committee as there seemed to be little hope for the future . |
| 29 | Finally , as summarized in table 4 , there seemed to be little interest in some of the current general matters of concern in education . |
| 30 | The fact that local people had not been informed of the exploratory work as it proceeded , or asked what they thought , had been discussed at some length during the evening , and there seemed to be little doubt that people who are to be " invaded " by a major installation for which they will bear much incidental , site-specific cost , would like to be party to discussions about the project . |