Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I should never have brought up Estella like that , or allowed you to be hurt ! ’ |
| 2 | It was like every time I got a letter or an insinuation from him that he cared , or that he really loved me or wanted me to be with him , it shocked me because he was n't good at showing that . |
| 3 | The young woman in the plain suit was not intimidated by it , nor by the hand-carved plate that proclaimed her to be in the offices of Yeo , Davis and Partners . |
| 4 | Preparation of candidates for the exams should deploy and extend the intellectual abilities that caused them to be recruited . |
| 5 | When she got off the bus at her usual stop , even the moderate leafiness of the district contributed to her hopes , and she saw , fleetingly , the features that caused it to be described by others as a desirable residential area . |
| 6 | He had to watch her carefully , he said , and if she felt like pottering around , that was good medicine , Anything was that encouraged her to be cheerful . |
| 7 | Birds that had been reared with siblings were tested in apparatus that allowed them to be given up to six alternatives ( Bateson , 1982a ) . |
| 8 | As an additional sophistication in Superman , both camera and projector were slung from rigs that allowed them to be moved too . |
| 9 | This model gave off a steady hum that allowed it to be used indoors without disturbance to neighbours . |
| 10 | Such demands failed , however , to quell the discontent , which increasingly focused on Michael Heseltine as the only serious alternative to Mrs Thatcher , a view supported by polls that showed him to be the voters ' overwhelming choice to replace her . |
| 11 | It was you that taught me to be a Darwinist , a decent gradualist . |
| 12 | They were rocket propelled bombs with wings that enabled them to be launched and to fly in a straight line until the rocket fuel was used up , then to fall on the unfortunate people and buildings below . |
| 13 | The voice spread like ink through blotting paper and seeped across his mind until it reached the nerve that knew it to be Bella 's . |
| 14 | That 's to say , she had firm features and smartly cut , possibly dyed hair obviously kept under regular control , and she behaved as if she had known a time when she turned every head and expected you to be aware of this too . |
| 15 | Of course there was still some opportunity for children to earn money while they were at school , and where those opportunities were taken there is evidence that parents considered this as part of the household income and expected it to be handed over ( Jamieson , 1986 ) . |
| 16 | I , I , I ordered a camera and expected it to be with us the week before we went . |
| 17 | Tim leaned across to Anne and asked her to be his wife |
| 18 | At noon Sir Michael Adeane rang up and asked me to be at the Palace at 2 o'clock . |
| 19 | Before long he recognised Eva 's ability and invited her to be vice president . |
| 20 | Geoffrey Fisher went from Repton to be Bishop of Chester and invited him to be an examining chaplain ; which he accepted — it would mean two or three visits a year — and was surprised to find how friendly Fisher was when they were not in the relation of boy and headmaster . |
| 21 | The Herald spoke to Patricia Routledge and found her to be keen to return to the Yvonne Arnaud , where the audiences recently warmed to her in Alan Bennett 's Talking Heads . |
| 22 | Li and her coworkers have been able to locate these sequence variations ( which geneticists have identified in amino acid sequences as important for target specificity ) in the three-dimensional structure of the toxin , and found them to be concentrated in the β sheets of domain II . |
| 23 | The more usual situation is where payment is ‘ at sight ’ meaning when the paying bank has examined the documents and found them to be in order or at a determinable future date — for example ‘ 90 days sight ’ meaning that payment will be made to the exporter 90 days after the paying bank has examined the documents . |
| 24 | It was on that occasion — in the strangely bare study of Darlington Hall — that Mr Farraday shook my hand for the first time , but by then we were hardly strangers to each other ; quite aside from the matter of the staff , my new employer in several other instances had had occasion to call upon such qualities as it may be my good fortune to possess and found them to be , I would venture , dependable . |
| 25 | AB still appears shorter than BC even after I have measured them and found them to be equal . |
| 26 | Cornelius rummaged through the contents of the boot and found them to be very oily indeed . |
| 27 | For confirmation I visited him in prison , where in protest against his incarceration he had put himself in solitary confinement , and found him to be sandy-haired , bullet-headed and verbose , yet with a redeeming sense of humour ; his passionate denials of having played any part in the Ayr murder were too convincing to have been invented . |
| 28 | I bought the magazine , Shannonside , and found it to be very interesting . |
| 29 | I pulled it free and found it to be sand-frosted and pear-shaped , like the one Nicky had shown me . |
| 30 | Faith flew the Tri-Pacer from Texas to our airstrip in Chicago , where Tim and our local mechanic , Chuck Blanchard , did an extensive annual inspection and found it to be in good shape . |