Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [vb past] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever position I adopted seemed to be the wrong one , and it was possible for certain parts of my body to be relaxed and at rest only at the expense of certain other parts . |
| 2 | I tried to slacken pace but the slowest I went seemed to be faster than I had ever run before . |
| 3 | Whatever curves I specified had to be made using a bandsaw , a drum-sander , spokeshave and scraper . |
| 4 | Support was welcomed , but except in the case of Israel and the United States , the relationships which evolved tended to be as frustrating as rewarding for all the contestants . |
| 5 | Some stairs , and then around a corner where a staff pay phone hung under a grey plastic hood on the wall , and she was looking down what she guessed had to be the dressing-room corridor . |
| 6 | What , what did you get for the fir , or what did you reckon the first set of claims you decided wanted to be accomplished . |
| 7 | The court has heard that she was arrested after police found out that one of the men she named appeared to be in Scotland at the time of the alleged incident . |
| 8 | Over coffee she asked what she knew had to be the silliest question in the world . |
| 9 | The essences she chose tended to be of the wood or resinous families — sandalwood , cedarwood , frankincense and myrrh , heightened with rose or ylang-ylang , occasionally clary-sage . |
| 10 | The fragmentation of memory and self is represented through a naming of the three selves ' Sylvia constructed : the child self , ’ The Child Who Knows had to be kept apart from both the adolescent self , and the adult self . |
| 11 | Everyone we passed seemed to be staring at me . |
| 12 | ‘ But living without women is something we decided had to be done — it 's not too high a price to pay for fame . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Everything we bought had to be practical for our flat ; light and easy to move around . |
| 14 | They have discovered that problems that they thought had to be brought in person to a bureau , can in fact be carried out successfully over the telephone . |
| 15 | Mrs Blakey had a way of saying , annoying Stephen because of the implication that everything they did had to be done together . |
| 16 | Lawrence takes a deep breath and starts off again , with this massive approach , comes in now to , it 's short and it ends in a way I think probably off the body , he tried to take the bottom hand away again , that , that they do seemed to be trying this angle of attack at him , as Botham there at leg gully and a short leg and they 're trying to be , do n't forget the balls at 's ribcage , he 's certainly troubled by that one . |
| 17 | And many women actually did take to their beds when they were menstruating and erm sort of retired from active life and this was n't possible then because so many women had been called up you know and they had had to be in the army or they had to work in factories and it was n't possible for them to be absent . |
| 18 | Every step he took seemed to be resented by the stonework , which creaked and rumbled ominously about him . |
| 19 | The reality that an independent nation could pick any sovereign it liked had to be recognised . |
| 20 | Well depending on the situation er you would ask him how he did came to be client . |
| 21 | What he glimpsed appeared to be a body covered with a blanket . |
| 22 | Anything broken had to be hidden until it could be replaced or forgotten . |