Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [prep] be [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Herald spoke to Patricia Routledge and found her to be keen to return to the Yvonne Arnaud , where the audiences recently warmed to her in Alan Bennett 's Talking Heads . |
| 2 | The fits stopped her from being able to drive and made even daily chores like shopping difficult as they made her develop amnesia . |
| 3 | Marie told me to be sure to switch it off when I ai n't in the room , or else at night when I 'm sleeping . |
| 4 | Comfort gave Jackson French her address and told him to be sure to call her when he got to London . |
| 5 | She needed him to be ready to make some sort of commitment to her . |
| 6 | However , the authority felt them to be impractical to implement because of the assumptions about resources . |
| 7 | I hope all these very pretty sentiments about not being strong enough to stand watching other people doing things in the war are just part of a passing phase ; or maybe it 's these ‘ books of a higher nature ’ … but I never credited you with being able to talk such utter balls . |
| 8 | Only if he knew her to be ready to take that risk herself . |
| 9 | Moreover , the very isolation of Four Winds precluded her from being able to enjoy the facilities which even a town like Penzance might have provided . |
| 10 | Herbert , a 22-year-old Reading University history student , said : ‘ I wanted them to be prepared to die for it — and they nearly did . ’ |
| 11 | I wanted you to be able to make up your mind away from the pull of the mountains , the sunshine and the hacienda . |