Example sentences of "they [verb] to be [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If somebody were fashion conscious when alive , why should they want to be seen dead in something unflattering ? ’ |
| 2 | This is not to deny that the custodians of institutionalized religion have often done their best to censure what they perceive to be damaging scientific conclusions . |
| 3 | The central concern for all these groups is with what they perceive to be declining moral standards . |
| 4 | They want to be left alone ; fear being touched because of the bodily soreness . |
| 5 | They want to be proved right . |
| 6 | Three rows of tiny figures circled a Navaho basket , holding hands forever in the weave ; black squares for heads , so that they seemed to be facing inward to preserve the sanctity of the dance . |
| 7 | Her heels felt sore , and because there was so much walking , they seemed to be getting worse as the morning went on . |
| 8 | They seemed to be dropping hundreds of metres , unfolding their wings , then rising with the air currents into the upper atmosphere . |
| 9 | Most of them were married , with children : they seemed to be set fair on the roads they would be travelling now for the rest of their lives . |
| 10 | Aye , they seemed to be following one another up the road . |
| 11 | They seemed to be doing fine , but just to be on the safe side we gave them another four days to adapt . |
| 12 | I 'm sure have it , as time 's getting on the they seemed to be introducing more health things in I think that now that , tobacco er vegetables all the likes of that is different now what it was forty , fifty years ago |
| 13 | Well they , they seemed to be putting some finance in , but er it went through a bit of a flat spot and then the sold out I , I 'm sorry I 'm stuttering and all this but I have n't done my research you know and it , it 's , it 's tough going . |
| 14 | Alison had rung to say that she was coming up to London for an appointment and could they lunch at a restaurant to which they had both occasionally gone when working at Brentwoods , if they happened to be feeling affluent . |
| 15 | They seem to be using repro-antique furniture : and remember that an 1850 sideboard looked like a repro in 1850 . |
| 16 | They seem to be eating each other . |
| 17 | And she said that they seem to be selling more |
| 18 | Yet already , as they have been increasingly drawn into Government and industry , they seem to be losing public confidence . |
| 19 | ( By the way , in case they happen to be reading this , my apologies to Phillip , Mary , Harold and Henry for taking their names in vain ! ) |
| 20 | A number of factors are conspiring against the South Africans and they profess to be having real problems with the heat and humidity , exacerbated by the fact that Trinidad is experiencing its highest temperatures for a year with bushfires bright in the hills around the Port of Spain area . |
| 21 | Drivers and conductors had to wait three years , they had to be employed three years before they were accepted into the pension scheme but you know , believe me I 'm glad that I paid in for it . |
| 22 | They had to be cut free . |
| 23 | They had to be kept busy by war , because otherwise the whole building of the Roman organization would collapse . |
| 24 | They g they had to be weighed last week and he weighs more than Jonathan . |
| 25 | They had to be filed clean . |
| 26 | Patients who have little chance of being well enough to leave hospital even if resuscitated by medical specialists could make it known beforehand that they prefer to be left alone . |
| 27 | They have to be ridden everyday for exercise and have to be cleaned out ( stable ) everyday . |
| 28 | M I five operates it in Northern Ireland and has got this whole series you may well have seen the television programme recently about these people who work undercover and who work for the intelligence and they they work themselves into the I R A and become members and then they feed the information back to British it 's been very successful and a couple of insiders is risky and we eventually when they are discovered who these people are , they have to be given new identities , plastic surgery and the works . |
| 29 | Some schools have permanent pools outside , but as with the sand pit , they need to be kept clean and free from intruders . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , they are rarely used individually and to the exclusion of all other forms of communication , so they need to be considered all together ; each form of communication adding a little more to the message the horse is sending . |