Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pers pn] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1903 the Persian government stopped the import of these aniline dyes and brought in laws , which were strictly enforced , ordering dye-houses found using them to be burnt to the ground . |
| 2 | Thankfully all men and women returned safely from the Second World War , so a sum of money was given to the hall and a brass plaque erected declaring it to be a memorial village hall . |
| 3 | As we have seen , DVI is essentially a process by which digital video information is compressed and decompressed to enable it to be stored and retrieved as full frame , full motion video in a CD-ROM system . |
| 4 | Underneath he 'd expected her to be hard and dry , but she was very soft and moist . |
| 5 | I 'd expected them to be quiet and reserved in their style as they are seemingly in their culture . |
| 6 | She 'd expected it to be more sumptuous than it was . |
| 7 | Car dealers say the world 's fastest production car may not prove to be the sellout they 'd expected it to be . |
| 8 | I suppose after those stories Harry told us about you being an asthmatic as a child , I 'd expected you to be delicate , a thin undersized weakling ! ’ |
| 9 | When I got there he was pleased to see me ; he seemed to expect us to be able to do something about his leg but of course we could n't . |
| 10 | But in the 1950s the first wave of modern consumerism transformed people 's lifestyles so that they came to expect it to be right and natural that they should have consumer durables ( and increasingly non-durable goods ) . |
| 11 | The shoulder charge was commonplace and the buffeting he received required him to be strong and brave . |
| 12 | Fortunately , Jed was going to be sleeping at Mrs Neary 's that night ; they could n't have made more noise exploring the Hall if they 'd found it to be haunted . |
| 13 | My father brought me up — he 'd trained me to be the nicest kind of boy , tough , self-reliant . |
| 14 | She thought he must be disappointed that she was n't going home , and realised in dismay that she 'd wanted him to be glad to know she was staying . |
| 15 | When I made love to you , and then , even more devastating , discovered I was the first , that you 'd chosen me to be your first lover , it was like … capturing the castle , stealing the Crown Jewels … ’ |
| 16 | But the Senior Management Team saw him as a somewhat shy and introverted person and sought to persuade him to be more outward-looking and to be the teacher in the Art department to liaise with the Needlecraft department , a development which they were keen to see . |
| 17 | The twenty years which followed showed him to be one of the most remarkable social innovators of his time . |
| 18 | The Zoo authorities soon recognized that he understood animals and offered to promote him to be one of the keepers . |
| 19 | True , Bernard did want her to be a housewife and mother but at the same time this was Laura 's interpretation of what he wanted and she believed deeply that it was wrong to challenge a husband 's authority . |
| 20 | If the military regimes of the Interregnum were prepared within reason to allow lay men and women to be godly in whichever way seemed most appropriate to them , they did expect them to be godly in some way . |
| 21 | The presbytery having dealt with him to bring him to the conviction of the evil of the said practice did appoint him to be publickly rebuked two several Lord 's days in the Kirk of Kilarrow and Kilmeny . |
| 22 | The presbytery having dealt with him to bring him to the conviction of the evil of the said practice did appoint him to be publickly rebuked two several Lord 's days in the Kirk of Kilarrow and Kilmeny . |
| 23 | I did find it to be a touch neck-heavy though . |
| 24 | Emerson 's essay on ‘ history ’ begins , ‘ There is one mind common to all individual men ’ , whereas Eliot 's anthropological reading had taught him to be wary of the nineteenth-century assumption of what was ‘ in the words of M. Lévy-Bruhl , the uniformity of mind ’ . |
| 25 | His background had taught him to be sober , frugal and methodical . |
| 26 | And Preston very dubious , because she did n't look like she had a baby in her tummy and experience had taught him to be very sceptical about any information his family gave out , especially on the subject of babies and where they came from . |
| 27 | Mother 's own experience as a child had taught her to be self-sufficient and she needed a lot of support and practice at learning how to meet Maria 's emotional and social needs . |
| 28 | The house wore a permanently uncompleted air as if , sixty years before , the builder had intended it to be part of a pair of semi-detached houses but had run out of money or enthusiasm before he started on the second one . |
| 29 | The German scientist who around 1906 synthesized novocaine , the first non-addictive narcotic , had intended it to be used in major surgical procedures like amputation . |
| 30 | Accordingly , at the time of the accident the deceased was a lawful visitor on the premises , since the brewery had not given the deceased any indication that the permission they had given him to be on the premises expired at 10.30 p.m . |