Example sentences of "and [vb past] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bhawana loved animals and planned to be a vet . |
| 2 | She had known warmer climes and situations more civilized and now , in her old age , needed and expected to be warm . |
| 3 | Although populist , this element was staunchly unionist , often more so than the leadership , and expected to be rewarded for the ‘ loyalty ’ of the Protestant working class . |
| 4 | A courtesan was a woman of gifts who attached herself to a great man , and expected to be displayed as a badge of his wealth . |
| 5 | By Sunday evening , though , I was getting back to myself and expected to be let out in a day or two but they kept me in for the week , giving me tests , including an electrocardiogram . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I pleaded guilty because I realised I was in breach of my contract and expected to be punished . |
| 7 | On the figures , the company says that it should achieve double digit profit growth in the year to March 1994 but will fall short of the 13.3% figure achieved in 1992-93 , because of cuts in international tariffs agreed with the government last year and expected to be implemented on July 1 this year . |
| 8 | MVS is still supreme in IBM 's view and expected to be around through the decade as a leader . |
| 9 | An ‘ authoring system ’ , called ‘ Kaleida ’ and expected to be released at the end of the year , will enable publishers or packagers to edit together text , sound , still and moving pictures . |
| 10 | And Tutilo was indeed a brother , and at large that night , and expected to be upon that path . |
| 11 | Indeed , the West Indians originally thought that they had much in common with British people and expected to be able to identify with the British way of life ( PEP 1976 ) . |
| 12 | The day was still dank and moist when I emerged , but I called a taxi from the rank outside , and asked to be taken to the ruins of Holford House , once the home of Mr Harvey-Beaumont . |
| 13 | Outside the church , I found a taxi rank , jumped in a taxi and asked to be taken to the village that gave County Louth its name . |
| 14 | In July , NICRA 's executive committee was meeting in Kevin Agnew 's house in Maghera ; Currie had phoned Fred Heatley and asked to be allowed to put an idea to the committee , and he was invited to address the meeting . |
| 15 | Several plain-clothes detectives went further and telephoned a commentator on commercially-owned Ulster Television and asked to be quoted as anonymous detectives in the police division responsible for Rathcoole I who knew that no evidence whatsoever existed against the men arrested . |
| 16 | He handed the plastic bag to the white-coated technician and asked to be told the moment the fingerprints were identified . |
| 17 | Believing that death was at hand he confirmed the territorial dispositions made at Montmirail and asked to be buried at the monastery of Grandmont in the Limousin , one of the monks of which had played an important part in the peace negotiations . |
| 18 | ‘ One day a man knocked on my door , and asked to be painted in a nearby churchyard , ‘ to symbolise the desolation of my life ’ , he said . |
| 19 | We are in exile now and we have no money , " he would tell people who came to Morocco and asked to be paid for past services to the crown , It was not quite true , but certainly no longer disposed of the sort of funds as he had done when he was in power . |
| 20 | As they approached Streatley , he lost his nerve and asked to be dropped by the bridge . |
| 21 | Mr. Thorpe then approached me , his General Practitioner here in Barnstaple and asked to be referred to Professor Hitchcock . |
| 22 | Pat had come to him and asked to be able to buy the shop — not with any money she had available at that time , but on a never-never basis , letting him have a share in the takings until the value of the business had been reached . |
| 23 | ‘ I was talking with Giles Brandon and Dawn came and asked to be introduced . |
| 24 | The court heard she went to a taxi rank in Worksop and asked to be taken to an address where her mother lived . |
| 25 | The court heard she went to a taxi rank in Worksop and asked to be taken to an address where her mother lived . |
| 26 | Thousands of illegal immigrants in Japan have surrendered to police and asked to be deported , before a new anti-immigration law comes into effect . |
| 27 | All companies were dismissive of the value of using professional translation agencies and sought to be self-sufficient ( either within own plant or through their international network ) . |
| 28 | They first appeared in the seventeenth century and ceased to be built after the middle of the nineteenth century , when the advent of portable threshing machines meant that ricks could be built and threshed in the fields and field barns were no longer needed . |
| 29 | It was built of stone early in the eighteenth century and ceased to be used in 1913 . |
| 30 | The last real Targa Florio was staged in 1973 , thereafter it became a much " tamer " affair and ceased to be part of the Sports Car World Championship . |