Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [verb] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Liverpool the Principal wrote , also at the end of 1967 , that within the new polytechnic ‘ there will be complete autonomy in respect of the academic work of the Faculty of Art and nothing that has been said causes me to have any misgivings on this score . |
| 2 | ‘ He had been told to stop me winning at Ascot . |
| 3 | Readers are invited to let me have queries about the book business , at home or abroad , and to offer answers to queries already put . |
| 4 | These " no-hopers " were probably given to me because I may well have been overheard to say I did not believe that there was such a person who had gone through a-initio training as a pilot who could not get on step by step until he became an operational pilot . |
| 5 | X amount is going to be needed to help me achieve my objectives . |
| 6 | I think coping with distances would be my biggest problem if the authorities could ever be persuaded to allow me to live in Australia . |
| 7 | I 'm not sure that I really knew her and I 'm left wishing I 'd tried harder . |
| 8 | ‘ For God 's sake , lie still , or I might be tempted to forget I do n't respect you and take what we both want ! ’ he ordered tersely . |
| 9 | Had we been allowed to continue I believe we would have made a significant improvement to the path . |
| 10 | Had we been allowed to continue I believe we would have made a significant improvement to the path ; certainly the comments of passers-by were very favourable , most saying it was high time something was done , that the path was in a shocking state , etc . |
| 11 | I have discovered for example that the acute stress of being interviewed makes me sweat a lot , an afternoon of difficult telephone calls leaves me with lower back pain , while the run-down-at-the-end-of-a-long-hard-term kind of stress makes me irritable and forgetful . |
| 12 | My father , who 's also an actor , once wanted me to be in a play that he was in , and just being asked made me cry . |
| 13 | ‘ On your honour ’ is calculated to make me break down and confess . |
| 14 | Anyone interested in writing a short piece describing their own efforts ( whether in writing or by word of mouth ) is invited to let me know by 1st May . |
| 15 | ‘ If the archaism is meant to help me understand you , I do n't like the implication , ’ said Connon with a smile . |
| 16 | Leonora 's determined to make me drive her all the way home tonight . ’ |
| 17 | That 's guaranteed to drive me to despair . |
| 18 | that one was intended to go I expect yes that one was intended to go |
| 19 | That was calculated to make me feel really good , was n't it ? |
| 20 | This entire charade was designed to entice me to defect ? ’ |
| 21 | And then she was gone leaving me shaking with every turbulent feeling you can think of . |
| 22 | The hard-to-handle rumour was spread to stop me working . |
| 23 | ‘ I felt a stab of pain as the needle went into my leg but the fact that it was concealed made me feel less squeamish , ’ she says . |
| 24 | In the present set-up I was comforted to know I held good cards . |