Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly , parents generally must welcome the news that cuddling is not only nice but necessary ; perhaps , however , we should spare a compassionate thought once more for the intellectual mothers of the thirties , whose sufferings as they tried to be ‘ good ’ mothers are now repeated in the knowledge that all their efforts only led them to be ‘ bad ’ mothers : as one of our correspondents added , ‘ Here is Bowlby , still out to make us feel guilty — about our rejection of the children we loved but were not allowed to love . ’ |
| 2 | They 're very pleased at that because I mean they obviously found it to be useful , erm we proved it to be useful and it 's nice to see them all taking on this responsibility now , now and doing it , because that 's all progress . |
| 3 | The armed forces apparently believed them to be carrying an order for King Bhumibol Adulyadej to sign dismissing Gen. Sunthorn Kongsompong as Armed Forces Supreme Commander . |
| 4 | She was of mature years , and he rightly guessed her to be Mrs Heatherton . |
| 5 | Her mother so much wanted her to be doing something prestigious , Caro thought bitterly , something she could boast about to her woolshop cronies , after all that dreadful ‘ grubbing about in the park ’ . |
| 6 | It no longer amused him to be surrounded by a band of admirers . |
| 7 | Once doubts about the feasibility of such a system finally caused it to be shelved indefinitely , the government sought other ways of extending parental choice , once it had introduced reforms to school government to increase opportunities for parental involvement at school level ( see Chapter 3 ) . |
| 8 | He basically just told me to be myself . |
| 9 | Rockwell 's victory was the first to be scored by the newly formed 124 Squadron , otherwise known as the ‘ Escadrille Americaine ’ — until pressure from the Isolationist lobby in Washington shortly caused it to be changed to the ‘ Escadrille Lafayette ’ . |
| 10 | If employers ignore advice and subsequently it emerges that it was a real problem , that steps should have been taken , that research elsewhere showed it to be a reasonable system to look after employees mental health , then the scale is potentially enormous . |
| 11 | Local publicity soon established her to be Louisa Kruckenberg , whose father , the Rev Frederick Thomas Kruckenberg , who became vicar of Lower Dunsforth , between Boroughbridge and York , in 1911 . |
| 12 | It was bad enough that she 'd fallen in love with the cold , glacial man she already knew him to be — if she were to suddenly discover a tender , humane element to his character , heaven help her . |
| 13 | ‘ My father , who was a professional cricketer , desperately wanted me to be a doctor . |
| 14 | Whether conscious or not of their own envy , the people in the most difficulty are those who feel they have been born the wrong sex — suspicious , or even quite clear , that their parents desperately wanted them to be the boy or girl they were not . |
| 15 | ‘ I just wanted us to be married as soon as possible . |
| 16 | Yeah I 'm writing a letter to mothers I 'm writing a letter to mum and I just wanted it to be . |
| 17 | Yet he did not retaliate : he ‘ just wanted it to be over ’ . |
| 18 | I just wanted you to be sure that she 's dangerous to us . |
| 19 | She must have gone through a terrible period in her life ; looking back , she genuinely believed it to be worse than it really was . |
| 20 | She told herself to clear all thought of their bankruptcy from her mind , to think like the rich he still believed them to be . |
| 21 | She was born in Middlesbrough and her parents and family were from Skelton , so I always assumed it to be a North Yorkshire expression . |
| 22 | ‘ Not the helpless drug addict you once believed me to be ? ’ |
| 23 | A quick glance through the nearest showed it to be an empty chamber built of oddly fitted blocks of Cyclopean size . |
| 24 | And because her bag was light , with only Miss Gemma Dallam 's brown Chinese satin in it , and her hopes as high as she ever allowed them to be , she smiled at everybody else who came her way , the fishmonger , the old-clothes dealer pushing his cart with its flea-ridden bundles ; the organ-grinder whose emaciated monkey , cowering sadly on his shoulder , always caused her a stab of pain : |
| 25 | Observers still thought them to be in the relation of boy and headmaster . |
| 26 | And although such an eventuality was beyond my imagination ( like trying to envisage infinity ) and utterly unacceptable to me , I still knew it to be true . |
| 27 | ‘ Miss Havisham , ’ I said , ‘ I must tell you that I 'm as unhappy as you ever wanted me to be . |
| 28 | It 's funny , I never really did like him and Ken Pitt thought I always wanted them to be together . |
| 29 | My father , who 's also an actor , once wanted me to be in a play that he was in , and just being asked made me cry . |
| 30 | What I discovered at this point , was that they , my Thai co-workers , also expected me to be the teacher for this newly organised project ! |