Example sentences of "[v-ing] to [be] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Portuguese , although appearing to be similar to Spanish on paper , is pronounced completely differently , and so despite the fact that we could communicate in French and Spanish , we could not make ourselves understood in Portuguese other than to ask , ‘ Fala ingles ? — do you speak English ? ’ |
| 2 | Our Institute must find a way to defend our interests in the matter of fee income while appearing to be concerned for the public interest as well . |
| 3 | She subtly covered this up by appearing to be concerned about what dangers might face us here at Templecombe . ’ |
| 4 | JEWKES reveals BELVILLE disguised as Nan , pretending to be asleep in a chair . ] |
| 5 | ‘ You looked so beautiful , pretending to be asleep in the passenger-seat — ’ |
| 6 | Were they all pretending to be ignorant in order to trap him into making some punishable blunder . |
| 7 | I can hear him now , sniffing and purring under his lank hair , pretending to be full of ‘ compassion ’ or concern as he recounts the endlessly embellished details of my so-called iniquity . |
| 8 | ‘ There 's nothing more depressing than pretending to be jolly in a prison camp . ’ |
| 9 | The superintendent nodded slowly , pretending to be satisfied by the reply . |
| 10 | I filled in the rest of that day by pretending to be busy with the audit . |
| 11 | Pretending to be worried about the painters and the incriminating evidence against them — ‘ It 's very , very important for them ! ’ — Porfiry asks Raskolnikov if he has any recollection of passing an open door on the lower landing and seeing two men at work inside . |
| 12 | And on the other end of the line , the spineless , boneless baby-kissers : all eagerly participating in the charade , briefly pretending to be interested in these individuals , in order to make importuning for votes look like philanthropy and vacant sayings appear new minted . |
| 13 | Committees are places where you can see people snoozing , picking their noses and pretending to be interested in subjects which are of no interest to them . |
| 14 | No sooner was he striding across that tedious countryside , pretending to be interested in disused châteaux and drab churches ( three months ! ) than he began to miss me . |
| 15 | She was n't smiling but she was obviously being polite , nodding and asking questions and pretending to be interested in the answers . |
| 16 | ‘ But each time I saw you I could feel myself weakening — wanting to be close to you . ’ |
| 17 | She sometimes felt she was walking a tightrope , wanting to be friendly with Therese , and yet terrified of upsetting Karl . |
| 18 | Yeah but you see that 's if it 's cash every time , that 's when they start wanting to be fishy about it . |
| 19 | Wanting to be near to something |
| 20 | ‘ You start off wanting to be fair about everything , ’ said one man , ruefully . |
| 21 | It was now that the assurances of 1918 that the pact would be for one election only came home to roost ; wanting to be ready in plenty of time , many local parties were by 1921 selecting candidates who would oppose sitting Coalition Liberals . |
| 22 | He turned on his heel , and she stumbled after him , not wanting to be alone in the eerie garden where even the birds had been subdued by the fog . |
| 23 | It is a concentrated , fleeting moment of ambiguity and irony ( irony and ambiguity tending to be intrinsic to transgressive reinscription and alien to humanist transgression ) . |
| 24 | I could only resolve the confusion by refusing to be involved with any political activity . |
| 25 | Incidentally , the good art critic should be the reader 's friend in refusing to be impressed by art market prices . |
| 26 | Refusing to be concerned with your own authority or status |
| 27 | Almost all experimental studies have shown in vivo training to be superior to the use of tape recorded instructions . |
| 28 | It was too early in the negotiating round at the time of writing to be confident about trends for the coming year , although most expectations for the 1–10MW bracket are that the new deals will merely take account of inflation . |
| 29 | ‘ These men are torn between yearning to be close to a woman and having a deep fear of hostility towards them , ’ says psychologist Dr Susan Forward . |
| 30 | All of that to me smacks of a lack of appreciation of the need to understand a business thoroughly , where you 're going to be involved in making major decisions . |