Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] to 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 | Fifteen years ago they 'd decided to be circumspect , they 'd brought their love affair to an end because the baby had been born . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The difficulty was , he 'd chosen to be charming so very , very often . |
| 9 | One of the examples trialled proved to be easy . |
| 10 | She was a desperately tiresome female , but I always felt constrained to be pleasant to her merely because she was so uninspiring . |
| 11 | Herr Nordern nodded to Karl , took the whisky , and then felt bound to be agreeable . |
| 12 | Her tone said that she still loathed the Harlequin man , yet she felt compelled to be accurate . |
| 13 | She knew she had nothing to feel guilty about despite her attraction to Luke , having resisted him , but his relationship with Cavell was none of her business really , and whether Luke finally confessed that he had intended to be unfaithful or Cavell discovered it for herself , she did n't want to have to feel responsible for any eventual break-up . |
| 14 | Lisa had expected to be impressed by Vass 's seaside abode . |
| 15 | Had expected to be sore or tired from the previous day but I felt great and was never tired , no sore muscles or any blisters on the entire trip . |
| 16 | Lewis had forgotten to be indifferent and aloof , he could n't help it . |
| 17 | This reserved money was offered in the form of education support grants ( ESGs ) of up to 75% of the cost of each project , in areas of education that the Secretary of State had deemed to be important . |
| 18 | If there was indeed any mystery about Ewen Mackay 's visit to my cottage , the clue to it might well be here , in the house he had claimed to be familiar with . |
| 19 | Cuvier had claimed to be able to reconstruct an animal from a single bone , but it was Owen who did it , working out that a bone from New Zealand , broken at the ends , must have come from an enormous flightless bird , and being vindicated when the complete skeleton of a moa was found later . |
| 20 | He had hung the battered sword over the spice cupboard in Lucille 's kitchen , and had claimed to be glad that he would never again have to draw the war-dulled blade from its metal scabbard . |
| 21 | Bessmertnykh was dismissed as Foreign Minister on Aug. 23 for " passivity " during the coup , during which he had claimed to be ill . |
| 22 | Their increasing interest in the New Testament and the Life of Christ led them to concentrate on poverty and preaching — which previous authorities had seen to be dangerous . |
| 23 | Furthermore , she had grown to be grateful for the fact that their lives had drifted irretrievably apart , and she had prayed that things might stay that way for ever . |
| 24 | Angy had professed to be delighted to hear from her , had invited her to her flat but refused point-blank to hand over the ring . |
| 25 | Days ago she had decided to be good — she was being quite good — but she was only pretending to be good so far and all this appreciation was as yet undeserved . |
| 26 | I had decided to be vague . |
| 27 | If this process was properly carried out as a matter of public law , then the consequential private law right of the plaintiff was simply a right to the accommodation which the council had decided to be suitable . |
| 28 | Gesner had decided to be charming , which was a relief . |
| 29 | Humbly they had promised to be good . |
| 30 | These wider mills were thus squarer than their predecessors which had tended to be long and narrow . |