Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hard experience has taught me to be selective in my procrastination . |
| 2 | I was officially the gardener , but had come to fulfil also roles of secretary , comptroller of household , translator , interpreter , and stool-pigeon ( which they had always intended me to be ) . |
| 3 | Speaking from the governor 's mansion in Little Rock , Arkansas , local boy Bill , said : ‘ I accept tonight the responsibility you have given me to be the leader of this , the greatest country in human history . ’ |
| 4 | You have owned me to be your superior before , and you will do so now . ’ |
| 5 | Earnest young poseurs deemed them to be art and the rest of us were bored silly . |
| 6 | Neither she nor Nick were particularly tidy ; at home , in their warm , muddly house , no one had expected them to be . |
| 7 | I have found them working in ways I had never expected them to be able to . |
| 8 | If you 'd put those clothes there would you have expected them to be found sooner or later ? ’ |
| 9 | I 'd expected them to be quiet and reserved in their style as they are seemingly in their culture . |
| 10 | She wanted to giggle ; she had expected them to be told to hold hands and summon up the spirits of the dead . |
| 11 | She had expected them to be hard and hurtful , cruelly punishing . |
| 12 | The dates are significant , for they show that the spirit which ruled in the Italian city republics had noisy echoes in Germany and France — all over northern Europe indeed ; and that Italy and the northern communes were not so far apart as the northern monarchs and many modern historians have wished them to be . |
| 13 | Since I came from Scotland she had expected me to be ‘ large , raw-boned and ‘ dower ’ [ i.e. dour ] ' . |
| 14 | She looked at me , slightly surprised , as if she had not expected me to be interested . |
| 15 | Hanfmann describes ‘ a rather arrogant colleague ’ who ‘ told me that he knew I wrote good case histories , but had not expected me to be so good at theory ’ ( 1983 : 147 ) . |
| 16 | But surely you could n't have expected me to be carrying something so valuable around with me ? ’ |
| 17 | ' I do n't think he would have trusted himself to be married , ’ the actor remembered for me . |
| 18 | The Earl Marischal , who had supposed himself to be in charge , immediately yielded his position to Tullibardine , though retaining command of the ships which had brought them there . |
| 19 | He must have supposed himself to be using a language absolutely purged of metaphor when he wrote at the grand climax of the Discourse on method |
| 20 | The name Tolkien , he once remarked in a letter , is based on the German word for foolhardy : which is what , when he finally had his huge romance published , he must have supposed himself to be . |
| 21 | What worried him far more than the prospect of change , was the fact that he shied away from it , as a man set in his ways , and that was something he had never considered himself to be . |
| 22 | I had n't expected you to be a bit as you are . " |
| 23 | I suppose after those stories Harry told us about you being an asthmatic as a child , I 'd expected you to be delicate , a thin undersized weakling ! ’ |
| 24 | ’ I would have expected you to be bigger ’ . |
| 25 | I confess that in spite of the many negative sides I can see to you I would have expected you to be good management material . ’ |
| 26 | I would have expected you to be doing that . |
| 27 | SIR JACOB : Billy , how come you to be reconciled to her ? |
| 28 | This point helps to explain why there do not appear to have been many actual dismissals for pilferage ( we assume that we would have been told if there had been an abnormally high incidence of these ) , but we would still have expected there to be some if pilferage has been common , particularly since store security is not under Fred 's control . |
| 29 | ‘ I wish I could tell you I 'd expected there to be . ’ |
| 30 | At least , the cricket authorities have deemed him to be so , even if A.E . |