Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [be] a [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She feigned enthusiasm , but what she was really thinking was that she 'd been a fool to hope he 'd come here on a more personal mission . |
| 2 | She 'd been a fool to think one polite little apology would be enough to put everything right between them . |
| 3 | She had been a fool to let Muriel choose a place to have lunch and would take good care that it did not happen again . |
| 4 | He has been a joy to produce as he is a very willing , ‘ happy ’ horse who thoroughly enjoys learning new things . |
| 5 | All that he has is a right to apply for postponement under section 5(2) . |
| 6 | It has been a privilege to enjoy close contact with the College and so many Somervillians . |
| 7 | As President , it has been a privilege to serve the membership and I have enjoyed , immensely , the hospitality and courtesy extended to my wife , Elizabeth , and myself as we have visited branches . |
| 8 | It is also proposed to include a non-fundholding general practitioner on the committee as it has been a policy to try to ensure that two tier service does not develop . |
| 9 | Peter thought that he 'd been a fool to imagine that there might be something wrong between his hosts ; he put it down to an overactive imagination coloured by wishful thinking . |
| 10 | At that time would it have been a custom to have had the coffin in the house ? |
| 11 | It had been a race to remember . |
| 12 | It had been a shock to discover that for the first five years they went to homes in the country where women were paid to nurse them , and it seemed to put a stop to any hope of seeing Angel again . |
| 13 | When , on demobilisation , Freddie returned to Scotland , expecting to step into the role of country squire or glorified estate manager — despite the fact that he knew nothing about agriculture — it had been a shock to find himself coldly received by his in-laws and his wife , who informed him that she definitely intended to start divorce proceedings . |
| 14 | In the first place it was clear that it had been a mistake to let Alexei know that his transfer away from the Praetorian Guard had been requested — because if the boy was looking for an excuse for his antagonism , then the one with which he had just been presented was perfect . |
| 15 | Perhaps it had been a mistake to dismiss him so summarily after all , she thought with dissatisfaction . |
| 16 | Ah , it had been a mistake to mention Jews . |
| 17 | It had been a mistake to think that she could not be hurt again . |
| 18 | It had been a mistake to think anything could change . |
| 19 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 20 | That it had been a mistake to come back to Eastlake ? |
| 21 | It had been a mistake to get together again — a symptom of their immaturity , their enslavement to Cambridge . |
| 22 | It had been a night to remember , not least because even Lord C had n't thought to include such tricks in his training schedule at Holmsly Manor . |
| 23 | It had been a relief to reach camp but had taken all the will-power I could summon to put up the tent and cook a meal . |
| 24 | It had been a relief to tell Roirbak all about himself . |
| 25 | It had been a blow to learn that he had gone away to spend Christmas with ‘ friends in the country ’ , and she imagined him surrounded by fascinating girls all more attractive than herself . |
| 26 | At the other Delhi parties we had been to — mostly boring official events — it had been a struggle to avoid getting cornered by some grey under-secretary from the Ministry of Fertilizer Distribution . |
| 27 | It had been a lot to ask . |
| 28 | The two sets of carers who were not content with the institutionalisation decision were : the male friend of a single woman who said it had been a pleasure to visit her daily and help look after her ; after five months she was admitted to hospital under a guardianship order because she was felt to be at risk . |
| 29 | And Armistice Day is the best and brightest memory of all because it had been a war to end all wars and no one would ever allow such a thing to happen again … |
| 30 | It had been a sideline to use her to further his love-life . |