Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Basically , however , the difference between these and other areas lies in the attitude to new development , either whether it should be permitted at all ( it often is not ) or , if it is , of what it should be constructed — the materials used generally have to be traditional , for example , stone in the Lake District . |
| 2 | The person who phoned up appeared to be perfectly genuine . |
| 3 | It was wet on the ground , + I slipped , but unfortunately the same bench that I mentioned previously happened to be in my way again . |
| 4 | So maybe you 'd better stick to being just The Strawberries after all . |
| 5 | I 'd only wanted to be alone ! |
| 6 | It was no good saying in her defence that she 'd only meant to be Cara Kingsdale for an hour , because things had n't worked out that way . |
| 7 | He 'd only got to be told by Charlie that he 'd be leaving the High Street by the bridge and walking along the local river . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I 'd kinda hoped to be alone here tonight . |
| 9 | I 'd just wanted to be somewhere where people knew what they were doing . |
| 10 | What intrigued me was their mutual indifference to an activity I 'd always imagined to be both intimate and passionate . |
| 11 | I 'd always wanted to be famous . |
| 12 | I 'd always wanted to be a comedian at school , I 've always been obsessive about comedy , and if I 'd been rubbish it would have been a bit problematic . ’ |
| 13 | I 'd always wanted to be famous . |
| 14 | ‘ He said he 'd always wanted to be a dad ’ |
| 15 | He 'd always wanted to be a blacksmith and he learned by doing the job . |
| 16 | He had certainly researched Grantham and Marsh and the testimonial Sebastian had purportedly given her was in line with the high regard in which she had been told she was held by the company , although she 'd hardly expected to be given such a glowing recommendation . |
| 17 | Bush has pledged cooperation until Clinton 's inauguration on January 20 and seemed almost relieved to be through with a vicious campaign . |
| 18 | The hungry soulless being who served Crom Croich and walked abroad crying to be let in , and who carried on his back a dripping sack … |
| 19 | Though I still argued at parties , defending Sir Stafford Cripps and the Labour Government , no one I met now seemed to be interested : they listened to my opinions because I was pretty , their eyes on the cleavage of my dress . |
| 20 | She could n't understand why I needed to lodge in London at all , but insisted that any accommodation I settled on had to be approved by the university authorities . |
| 21 | The additional services needed therefore have to be financed from some other source . |
| 22 | Jaq felt extremely irked to be manoeuvred thus — in addition to the fury he felt on Meh'Lindi 's behalf because of the way she had been used . |
| 23 | Hence improved leg performance enabled early archosaurs to be more agile and speedy than other contemporary reptiles , a theory that Richard Owen first articulated . |
| 24 | Just before Easter , when everyone was preparing to celebrate the great festival , the emperor went out hunting to be away from the festivity . |
| 25 | Bits of Meccano lay around waiting to be pilfered if I 'd had the courage . |
| 26 | It seems to me entirely up to him , if he so wished , and his group , if they felt there needed to be more money spent on highways structural maintenance to have moved other bids up to priority order when discussing the capital budget . |
| 27 | It was as if those grey eyes could see into the very depths of her soul , stirring the desire that lay there waiting to be aroused , as each of them recalled the passion they had shared the previous day . |
| 28 | I felt truly honoured to be asked on The Morecambe and Wise Show and I still do — I regard my appearance with them as the apotheosis of my career and I do n't say that lightly or gratuitously . |
| 29 | The Divisional Court upheld the scheme adopted by the GLC but the ground on which they did so seemed to be no more than that ‘ since the LTE could exercise its function to balance its revenue account by a grant from the GLC , a policy that reduced fares by means of such a grant was not unlawful ’ . |
| 30 | Cameron did not want to be asked this . |