Example sentences of "[prep] be [vb pp] [v-ing] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hope you will do your duty ’ , and then collapsed in tears to be led weeping back to the palace and to her new role as Regent . |
| 2 | The avalanche of red tape surrounding events such as this ( the entire population of New Delhi appears to be employed handing out forms to fill in ) has to be seen to be believed , and it is by no means certain that , come 1 November , there will be any paper left to provide the winners with their cheque . |
| 3 | Because his rights as a tenant were protected and because in any case the university did n't wish to be seen turfing out an elderly man whose family had lived in the same cottage for five generations , we left him in peace and build around him , as it were , expecting him perhaps to move elsewhere or maybe to pass away . |
| 4 | Unbecoming as it was to their cred , the embarrassed band loaded themselves and gear into the vehicle and tried very hard indeed not to be seen getting out of it at the other end . |
| 5 | I had another l pipe , piece of water pipe , which I used as a balancing device , but I found , with the watering pipe you are so stable you feel it 's a shame to be seen holding on . |
| 6 | The women were to be seen hanging around in the yard talking quietly or trying to wash to get a few more rags to the pawnshop . |
| 7 | In all of this Ho Chi Minh is to be seen bobbing about like a cork on the tides of international communism , sometimes lost from sight for long periods , surviving life in Stalin 's Russia and the manifest uncertainties of the purges and , when war broke out , still remaining as an experienced if not entirely successful figure in the communist world and a distant although still immanent leader of Vietnamese communism . |
| 8 | Then from the French trenches were to be seen streaming back to our lines , first a few prisoners here and there , then more and more , and at last whole columns of them ; I breathed freely once more ! |
| 9 | Normally to be seen driving around in a funereal Daimler — dwarfing the island 's other cars ( including the BMW of Premier Sir John Swan ) — the Governor also dons his uniform and takes to the streets in a horse-drawn landau several times a year . |
| 10 | On four other occasions Eubank was to be seen covering up under a hail of blows , but like so much of the 26-year-old from Brighton 's act , it was an illusion . |
| 11 | Nothing would do more to boost Daniele 's status than to be seen showing off on the Corso while his father 's life still hung in the balance . |
| 12 | Everyone is a guest , non-Leeds fans are far less likely to be tolerated coming out with anti-Leeds stuff . |
| 13 | This was no kind of place to be caught reading in : a macho gay bar in a five-fathom basement somewhere beneath the charred East Twenties . |
| 14 | A COWBOY who spent the last six years of his life in a wheelchair got his dying wish , to be buried standing up with his boots on . |
| 15 | Some of the languages she knew , she thought ( it was hard to tell in the uncertain light , and she was too stiff to be bothered bending down ) , and some she did not recognise . |
| 16 | Salmond called on Sept. 27 for a referendum to be held setting out the choices for Scotland as full independence within the European Communities , limited self-government or continuing with the constitutional status quo . |
| 17 | It 's too valuable a book to be left lyin' around . ’ |
| 18 | The Central Drive line facilitated the running of tramway football specials , and on Saturday afternoons during important matches , convoys of Dreadnoughts and Toastracks were to be found trundling round from Marton Depot . |
| 19 | The show purports to be a potted history of the average actor 's life not one of the starspangled knights who represent the tip of the thespian iceberg , but the common-or-garden variety likely to be found filling out the bill in a panto or carrying a spear in the background of a TV costume drama . |