Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] 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 had n't expected you to be a bit as you are . " |
| 18 | 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 ! ’ |
| 19 | ’ I would have expected you to be bigger ’ . |
| 20 | 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 . ’ |
| 21 | I would have expected you to be doing that . |
| 22 | SIR JACOB : Billy , how come you to be reconciled to her ? |
| 23 | At least , the cricket authorities have deemed him to be so , even if A.E . |
| 24 | Many more have claimed him to be a genius of the hidden writings of the past ; an unsurpassed esoteric ; an extraordinary magician who deliberately mixed up his mysterious verses to hide them from weaklings and meddlers . |
| 25 | He had expected her to be sitting in the little ticket office with her friend Maureen , but instead he found the office locked and in darkness and the entire frontage of the cinema deserted . |
| 26 | They have expected her to be super-wife , good in bed , a wonderful mother , an efficient housekeeper , a co-counsellor , and an earner of income . |
| 27 | Anthony had always known that she loved Julia , but after the things Comfort had said at Christmas he had not expected her to be thrown into quite such terror . |
| 28 | Fergus looked up , because for all Dierdriu 's hubris , he had not expected her to be so suddenly direct . |
| 29 | The sergeant had expected her to be taller , instead of a good nine inches shorter than Blanche . |
| 30 | Underneath he 'd expected her to be hard and dry , but she was very soft and moist . |