Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they entered the jungle again , the Moi several times spotted banteng , but what few traces of seladang they found proved to be cold trails . |
| 2 | She found trying to be responsible mother , dependent daughter and " normal young person " a source of constant conflict between her and her mother . |
| 3 | I stopped trying to be clever . |
| 4 | Some philanthropic workers , such as Octavia Hill , who trained numerous lady rent collectors , insisted on maintaining a business relationship with the poor , but the relationship between visitor and visited tended to be paternalistic rather than contractual . |
| 5 | I got to remember to be careful with the fire . |
| 6 | Fifteen years ago they 'd decided to be circumspect , they 'd brought their love affair to an end because the baby had been born . |
| 7 | Without actually giving her the details — and still keeping back the crucial fact of Christine 's death , which would have changed the tone of their conversations completely — Lucy had been able to give Josie some idea of her home situation and of the problems that she 'd caused with actions that she 'd felt to be right . |
| 8 | Cal must have told her there was Nothing In It , I just felt sorry for him , she 'd got to be kind and take him in , only for a night . |
| 9 | I thought she 'd got over being ashamed of me , but now she looks at me with contemptuous pity . |
| 10 | The man she 'd dreamed of was strong , just as Adam was strong , but he was compassionate too , and full of gentle humour . |
| 11 | She could have hired a team of professionals to do the work , of course , but she 'd wanted to be able to look round at the end of it all and know she 'd done it . |
| 12 | ‘ Perhaps you would help me up on deck ? ’ she ventured expectantly , adding with a bewitchingly brief smile , ‘ I 'd hoped to be alone for a while . ’ |
| 13 | She 'd hoped to be able to take him out , perhaps for a longish walk through the forest where they could hope for a glimpse of a deer , but at its heaviest the downpour would have called for wetsuits rather than waterproofs . |
| 14 | The difficulty was , he 'd chosen to be charming so very , very often . |
| 15 | And the price you paid seems to be fair enough — even taking the bad news into account . |
| 16 | One of the examples trialled proved to be easy . |
| 17 | I decided to try to be open for once in my life . |
| 18 | She was a desperately tiresome female , but I always felt constrained to be pleasant to her merely because she was so uninspiring . |
| 19 | Herr Nordern nodded to Karl , took the whisky , and then felt bound to be agreeable . |
| 20 | Her tone said that she still loathed the Harlequin man , yet she felt compelled to be accurate . |
| 21 | Well , he could understand that , but he still thought it was a wasteful way of keeping the lower ranks occupied , and it did n't square at all with the continual excuses the seneschal and his minions kept making about being under-staffed . |
| 22 | In extremity , she kept trying to be pleasant . |
| 23 | That was an important question , for any messages Sharpe sent had to be accurate . |
| 24 | You did want to be able to go around all them works , what , what was it with the |
| 25 | " I did promise to be ready for nine thirty but those blasted animals just wo n't cooperate . " |
| 26 | Indeed , if they did appear to be hesitant because of the mixedness in the message , that could be seen as a weakness . |
| 27 | Certainly risky situations did appear to be unusual events , the top 50% of the rating scale was only used for 6.5% of the situations encountered . |
| 28 | I liked to play at being bright . |
| 29 | By refining Andrade 's sodium technique Mrs Parratt was able to produce the most beautiful crack patterns on the surface of all kinds of glass and what was more , many , perhaps most of them , did seem to be genuine cracks . |
| 30 | However , in general teachers did seem to be pleased with the outcome and many expressed approval at the improved pupil-teacher ratio for the coming year . |