Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone has already taught it to be aggressive towards people : they have reinforced a natural tendency for aggression and its expression . |
| 2 | She looked at me , slightly surprised , as if she had not expected me to be interested . |
| 3 | I had always thought him to be egotistical and attention-seeking ; but apart from mentioning his invitation to the Dukakis Inaugural , he answered modestly , even humbly : praising his friend 's work and disparaging his own . |
| 4 | She shook her head sharply — Dana had once accused her of being afraid of men . |
| 5 | ‘ I have always assumed it to be apocryphal . ’ |
| 6 | He had always believed her to be promiscuous — now he was probably convinced , she thought bitterly , her face flaming as she recalled her total abandon in his arms . |
| 7 | The headmistress , who had always ridiculed her for being bad at games , now referred to her as ‘ our best pupil ’ and gave her a set of Shakespeare , duly inscribed . |
| 8 | No one has ever yet accused me of being short of words . |
| 9 | He regretted that Plato had not broken with the gods of the old cults and myths even though he had evidently known them to be false . |
| 10 | I have found them working in ways I had never expected them to be able to . |
| 11 | I heard Brad having a conversation again today about Ooh I do n't feel ye I heard him saying why do n't we feel very happy about this and not and not happy with the subjects and I do n't feel very happy about running the session so go up this way he 's never done the work you see so he 's trying to learn it from i instructions and things and a lot of the time you need to have actually done it to be able to talk about it |
| 12 | Until now he had never believed it to be true , that something as heavy as gold could fall naturally from the sky . |
| 13 | I 've never asked him to be faithful to me . |