Example sentences of "we [vb past] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We agreed to be honest with the children , I seem to recall . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ When we moved the telescope off the galaxy to what we expected to be blank sky , ’ Terzian explained , ‘ we got a signal instead . |
| 3 | and all of this leads natural to the final fifth proposition not only does the bible teach that all may be saved , not only does it teach that however that not all will be saved , not only is it true and clear that some will be saved and we do not , do not , do not expect to be saved , not only is it quite clear that others will not be saved , who we expected to be saved , but finally it is quite clear that no one will be saved except by God 's way , and God 's way of salvation is very simply by repentance and faced . |
| 4 | He was very considerate like that — and he taught us girls a thing or two we lived to be grateful for later on , I can tell you . ’ |
| 5 | After all , that 's how we got to be where we are now . |
| 6 | That 's how we got to be who we are . |
| 7 | Sometimes we got to be down at Bullard 's brewery by six o clock in the morning with a load , because they 'd start loading the beer up at six o'clock ; and if you were n't in the yard afore they started you could n't get in at all . |
| 8 | I do n't even know how we got to be born . |
| 9 | Though we 're not in agreement to what 's happened , we got to be very careful because you see what 's happened to the coal er dispute . |
| 10 | We 're not true Brits , we got to be like er , foreign people and er , we just seem to go their ways . |
| 11 | That 's when we planned to were n't it ? |
| 12 | BMW claims that this far more sophisticated ( and , no doubt , expensive ) rear suspension finally lays to rest the spectre of lift-off oversteer which has so bedevilled the 3-series over the years — albeit to a much lesser degree with the outgoing model which , in Sport form at least , we found to be well balanced and responsive rather than inherently tail happy . |
| 13 | Looking to our right we recognised the Cottages with the road in front of them close to the ditch ; also our Professor 's stable , coach-house and dog kennels , with the back entrance from the road to his garden … we were soon in King 's Road [ Pancras Way ] which we found to be well studded with trees on each side … to our left the Country residence of Counsellor Agar [ builder of Agar 's Town ] … we turned to the right and first took notice of the front of our Professor 's house with its large garden protected from the pathway and road by a brick wall . |
| 14 | Or is there some way in which we can accept and make sense of what we found to be the case ? |
| 15 | To regard these as distinct interests , each of which sustains a set of values , allows us to reformulate the question of the relative scope of holist and individualist theories which we found to be such a pressing one . |
| 16 | The disqualification stage in this bears some resemblance to denunciation , which we found to be of limited value as a justification of punishment . |
| 17 | In that time , we were tied to the gold standard , which we found to be inadequate and inflexible , especially as it depended in part on the mining activities in the gold mines of South Africa and the Soviet Union . |
| 18 | We tried to be real loose before the tournament . |
| 19 | Such things happen , so we tried to be philosophical . |
| 20 | We pretended to be God and angels . |
| 21 | The bombs from the mortar are now exploding in what we believed to be German positions in the wooded area to our front . |
| 22 | Erm it was to hopefully apprehend a person called that we believed to be er staying at that flat . |
| 23 | So far from all the problems being solved , we seemed to be not far from the beginning of the quest . |
| 24 | And yet despite all this the pounds were creeping up on us and we seemed to be fighting a losing battle . |
| 25 | We seemed to be travelling down a sort of miniature , pinkish Channel Tunnel . |
| 26 | Our elder daughter , a budding journalist , had her birthday a few days after Easter Day , so we seemed to be stuffed with Simnel cake and birthday cake and chocolate eggs . |
| 27 | The car was surrounded by a circle of robed figures : we seemed to be in the middle of some whirling ballet . |
| 28 | At times we seemed to be on an unavoidable collision course with menacing sharp edged rocks , only to be swept clear by the current at the last minute . |
| 29 | It was extraordinary , but suddenly we seemed to be on quite different terms . |
| 30 | We seemed to be peeing more than we could possibly have drunk . |