Example sentences of "[pers pn] were [vb pp] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as you were born to be queen of the pride . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ What I want to see is the woman you should be — the one you were born to be . |
| 3 | It was a closed community with the habit of passing down ultimatums — for example , you were created to be a wife and mother . |
| 4 | And I have spent all morning saying it can not possibly be true , that you devote all your time to your aunt , that you have scarcely left the house in over a month and all the time you were doing just what you were rumoured to be doing ! |
| 5 | From the moment I could understand the human voice 1 — and I expect most of my generation — was told to be ‘ seen and not heard ’ … ‘ consider others before yourself ’ … ‘ never complain' and if you were a boy child , then you were exhorted to be a man , to show no emotion , and not to be a sissy . |
| 6 | ‘ I think , ’ Doyle murmured , ‘ that you have forgotten what you were meant to be doing . ’ |
| 7 | I thought you were meant to be watching your blood pressure . ’ |
| 8 | In that era , notes Forster , if you had ‘ Venetian ’ tendencies , you thought it was because you were meant to be a man and that there had been some mistake . |
| 9 | He had discovered that you were allowed to be drunk in charge of a boat , so he pub-crawled on the river . |
| 10 | You were allowed to be defended by a fellow officer who acted as ‘ your friend ’ . |
| 11 | Obviously with so many having lost their lives on the disaster , you say that you do n't feel it 's maybe an act of God int hat sense , that you were picked to be saved , but erm you do n't feel any guilt as such either , o that you were one of the ones and er so many others had been lost ? |
| 12 | We were taught to be polite and pleasant . ’ |
| 13 | We were taught to be thrifty . |
| 14 | This time we were determined to be first . |
| 15 | We were too far out now to risk heading in : we were bound to be caught smack in the impact zone . |
| 16 | But then , as RSPB members we were bound to be biased ! |
| 17 | Two of us decided in favour of The Sunday Times and against Mrs Thatcher , and those two did n't give a damn for Mrs Thatcher , we each of us decided it was a matter of principle , knowing that we were bound to be criticised , whatever we did , and we decided it , and there 's an end of it . |
| 18 | It would be too bad if the Panzers overran our positions and we were found to be in our stocking feet . |
| 19 | You do n't have to go on about , ‘ I love you , you love me , we were meant to be ’ . |
| 20 | I guess we were meant to be , however much we try to fight it . |
| 21 | I guess we were meant to be , however much we try to fight it . |
| 22 | I knew — it sounds corny — but I knew we were meant to be , that we were simpático . ’ |
| 23 | well we were considered to be fortunate that we did n't , we only had a small percentage that we had a problem with |
| 24 | On the one hand , we were encouraged to be young ladies , polite , modest , and considerate towards others , especially those who belonged to the lower social orders . |
| 25 | We were told to be very careful about what we said and done when you were around , like . |
| 26 | But , wherever we went , whatever we did , we were accompanied by the innate , subconscious awareness that we were expected to be grateful . |
| 27 | Obviously the maid was disguised in view of the fact that we were known to be looking for two women travelling together . |
| 28 | The mystery plays were originally known as the Corpus Christi Play ; the use of the singular ‘ play ’ indicated they were intended to be seen as a whole , while Corpus Christi refers to the holy day on which they were performed . |
| 29 | Although I believe that hysteria , as classically defined , can provide only a part of the answer to the problem of anorexia nervosa , it is a starting-point and , in the light of Szasz 's observation that ‘ hysterical conversion is best regarded as a process of translation , ’ I propose to translate the history of my own symptoms back into the language in which they were intended to be expressed . |
| 30 | When made with the addition of stock they Jose all character and cease to be what they were intended to be . |