Example sentences of "[vb past] to be [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We always promised to be at each other 's wedding , and if I do n't turn up she 'll be upset . |
| 2 | The British government is committed to taking 1,000 ex-detainees and their dependants , believed to be about another 3,000 . |
| 3 | But the transformation was quite extraordinary over the festive season , and the team deserved to be in that position by the end of their campaign . |
| 4 | I gave talks on those subjects the participants judged to be of most interest ( e.g. tense and aspect , sentence connexion ) , and the Workshop progressed from the theoretical basis of communicative grammar to descriptive topics , and finally ( in the last two days ) to detailed devising and planning of teaching materials . |
| 5 | I expect to read a full and objective description of what 's on the site now , together with a documented reconstruction of how it came to be like that . |
| 6 | The emerging pattern seemed to be of each main electronic and electrical sector being left with about three major companies . |
| 7 | For them , theory consisted of broad speculation which seemed to need little in the way of systematic data collection , while for empirical research on social life , such theories seemed to be of little relevance . |
| 8 | Thus the financial health of the company seemed to be of more importance than the community 's concern over the health of its children . |
| 9 | The record seemed to be of some unremarkable string music . |
| 10 | My leg muscles seemed to be in some daze of quivering tension . |
| 11 | Maidstone 's whole life seemed to be like that . |
| 12 | Ben he spotted me on these occasions he invariably called out some mocking remark and if he happened to be with some of his cronies they all joined in the laughter at my expense . |
| 13 | But suppose I had found a watch upon the ground , and it should be inquired how the watch happened to be in that place ; I should hardly think of the answer which I had before given , that for anything I knew , the watch might have always been there . |
| 14 | He just happened to be in this area on the night of Rob 's party . |
| 15 | I had a friend , she now manages the Eurythmics with her husband , but at that time , none of us needed to be in such luxury but none of us said no if it was offered and DeFries always observed the Noel Coward code and said , ‘ You should travel through life first class . ’ |
| 16 | The man in the doorway was certainly old and infirm , and none too reliable either , but when he ceased to be of any use to the Guild as a working docker , they had found him a sinecure job as night watchman on the Wharf . |
| 17 | And Tutilo was indeed a brother , and at large that night , and expected to be upon that path . |
| 18 | But that 's what you got to be in this job . |
| 19 | I never chose to be in this position . ’ |
| 20 | In Precedent 2 there are two such special clauses which are , however , felt to be of some general application . |
| 21 | And when Eagles ' David Mycoe grabbed a try in the 45th minute Wigan looked to be in some danger . |
| 22 | So it proved to be on this occasion . |
| 23 | As old age creeps on I occasionally reflect , in that pious way that is one of the perks of advancing years , about those things in my education which proved to be of most use in later life . |
| 24 | Emerson revealed that both those who continued working and those who retired ‘ appeared to be to some extent affected by rather garbled information concerning retirement impact ’ ( Emerson 1959 ) . |
| 25 | His brain , never an overactive organ even on those rare moments when it was n't pickled in alcohol , grappled with the fact that he appeared to be in some sort of tent before triumphantly reaching the conclusion that he was at a party . |
| 26 | Although President George Bush won the primary , his margin of victory over right-wing challenger Patrick Buchanan was unconvincing , and by the end of the month the Bush campaign appeared to be in some disarray . |
| 27 | Oh , for that uncomfortable bed on his yacht that he now resolved to be aboard this very evening , before any such vote could be called . |
| 28 | Sweden continued to be in some ways deeply divided even after the coup d'état by which Gustavus III reasserted in 1772 the power of the monarchy . |
| 29 | At night a light had to be on all the time and Blake 's prison clothes had to be placed outside his cell while , during the day , the clothes he wore had distinctive patches of coloured cloth on them to show that he was on the escape list . |
| 30 | She heard the amazement , as if what she 'd suggested had to be beyond all rational consideration ; certainly not anything that had ever merited any thought on his part . |