Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] to be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The advice I gave the bench and the decision they rightly came to was for a re-trial . ’ |
| 2 | They only had to be with you . |
| 3 | Because he only had to be in the same room for her nervous system to run haywire , and she could only take so much punishment . |
| 4 | And the house no longer seemed to be on the defensive , she realised as she parked the car . |
| 5 | But in some odd way the decision no longer seemed to be in his hands . |
| 6 | ‘ I just happened to be with Nick Simpkin . |
| 7 | Both men had leapt to their feet and had been restrained from using violence by the mates of the shop steward , who just happened to be on hand . |
| 8 | Within Christianity bread and wine are sacramental not because they just happened to be on the table for a Jewish meal but because they were signs of the covenant . |
| 9 | The grass was lucky if it grew , was shone upon and rained upon , and was not burned , and was not pulled up by the roots , or poisoned , or buried when the ground was turned over , and some bits just happened to be on a line that humans wanted to walk on , and so got trampled , broken , pressed flat , with no malice ; just effect . |
| 10 | I wanted to ‘ do ’ someone I knew a little , but when I approached my number one seed , he served me up Roy as a better choice ( Roy just happened to be on holiday so not able to comment ) . |
| 11 | Actually , I 'd been waiting for somebody else but I just happened to be on hand and I could n't just stand there and watch her struggle with all those boxes , suitcases , typewriters , bicycles , stereo systems and so on . |
| 12 | He just happened to be in this area on the night of Rob 's party . |
| 13 | They just happened to be in the right place at the right time . |
| 14 | I said I did n't know the other guys , we just happened to be in the same pub . |
| 15 | Years later , even , when 617 just happened to be in my Canberra Wing at Binbrook after the war , oddly enough both Nos 617 and 9 Squadrons found themselves together in my four-squadron wing . |
| 16 | ‘ I just happened to be in the corridor . |
| 17 | ‘ I just happened to be in the right place at the right time . ’ |
| 18 | We just happened to be in the pool at the same time , that 's all . ’ |
| 19 | He just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time . ’ |
| 20 | Fucking had to be in there did n't they ? |
| 21 | I just wanted to be with you . ’ |
| 22 | She just wanted to be on her own so that the lava of tears could flow unchecked , melt it all away . |
| 23 | We always promised to be at each other 's wedding , and if I do n't turn up she 'll be upset . |
| 24 | A revelation which William James experienced when taking nitrous oxide took the form of doggerel , which he genuinely believed to be of enormous significance while he was under the influence of the drug : Higamous Hogamous , women are monogamous , Hogamous higamous , men are polygamous . |
| 25 | He quickly came to be on close terms both with Edward himself , in whose Scottish wars he regularly served , and with his heir . |
| 26 | Colonel Peter Young was a popular officer , well liked by everyone , always seemed to be of the same temperament , in action , or sitting at the bar in a country inn . |
| 27 | He was certainly an attractive man , with bright , smiling eyes and a face which always seemed to be on the point of laughter . |
| 28 | He always seemed to be on the move … |
| 29 | They always seemed to be beyond the next corner or in the next room . |
| 30 | When he was well , he always seemed to be in demand and was proud to have worked on the Salisbury Cathedral restoration in the 1860 s , carried out under the direction of the great Victorian architect , Sir Gilbert Scott . |