Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] be [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They then put us on trucks to bring us here and anyone who tried to escape was beaten senseless . " |
| 2 | The closest he came to exercise was to open one eye every so often , if someone entered the room , or to open both eyes , smile , and wag his tail as he 'd done on one occasion when confronted by a housebreaker ! |
| 3 | THE marriage of tennis star John McEnroe and Tatum O'Neal seemed to have been saved last night after a series of tantrums . |
| 4 | Carson seemed to have been taken off-guard by her appreciation . |
| 5 | People seemed to have been disappearing all the afternoon , one after another . |
| 6 | Headland has persuasively argued that , just as with the pygmies above , there was just not enough food for such groups in the forest itself ; in this case , the people seemed to have been trading wild meat for goods including carbohydrate and , indeed , may have grown it themselves in the past . |
| 7 | Then of course it seemed to have been predetermined all the time . |
| 8 | One moment Angel One had been crouched motionless as a carved statue , the next he seemed to have been transposed several feet nearer in the blink of an eye , like a faulty sequence in some badly cut movie . |
| 9 | Almost at once Ruth felt as if she were sliding into a dream ; the glade vanished behind them , and soon she seemed to have been walking this path all her life , through the vista of trees , with the tip of Fand 's spear faintly gleaming , and Adam ahead of her , treading like a king . |
| 10 | , Claude ( 1877–1959 ) , scholar , claimed to have been born 26 May 1877 ( his birth certificate counter-claimed 24 May ) in Handsworth , Staffordshire , the eldest son of Oswald Jenkins , cashier and later land agent , and his wife Sarah , daughter of William Palmer . |
| 11 | It belonged to a huge and beautiful seal who said she just happened to have been drawn that way . |
| 12 | In that case the personal representatives of persons who were crushed to death at the Hillsborough Stadium claimed damages under the Law Reform ( Miscellaneous Provisions ) Act 1934 for pain and suffering alleged to have been sustained prior to their death . |
| 13 | Chester College is pressing to be allowed the title of university college , but its hopes appeared to have been dashed last month by education junior minister Tim Boswell . |
| 14 | Flicking through the register , she then noticed that most of the Wednesdays appeared to have been kept free , and as she pondered this strange fact Silas returned to the office . |
| 15 | Under a dark pullover without elbows he was wearing a Levi shirt that appeared to have been sucked colourless by some dog . |
| 16 | Judicial reviews are also threatened in Oldham and the London Borough of Croydon , although an action in Cheshire appeared to have been resolved this week . |
| 17 | In our own ignorance all we thought we had to do was to educate these people so ERA also established a ‘ health task force ’ . |
| 18 | Poise was going to be the order of the day — poise and sophistication ; she had taken great care to look the part , now all she had to do was feel that way too . |
| 19 | The only people what did have a motor in that , at that particular time was the harbourmaster of Pinn Mill cos they always used to call er er er one bloke down there who used to moor the ships up at Bottoman 's Bay and er th th th he used to get a retainer from the Ipswich Dock Commission and all he w all he had to do was make sure that was clear of , for shipping , if there was a yacht in the way he 'd go and tell them to move and he was what the we used to call him Pinn Mill Harbourmaster . |
| 20 | And to solve Dr Tariq 's problems all he had to do was to find two traitors . |
| 21 | On top was the Queen with Princess Anne in a pushchair and Paul McCartney as Dad , and here was one I had near the beginning about being in a space-ship — Brian and me were weightless and floating around , and what we had to do was to get some stability by getting hold of this firework , a sort of Catherine wheel that was going round and round and showering sparks in our faces , so we closed our eyes and a fire-fanged beast roared flames at us and burned a hole in the space-ship and I fell , still with my eyes tight shut , out into the bottomless black void . |
| 22 | All we had to do was to make sure we had powerful enough equipment on each side of the ‘ lake ’ to run the applications . ’ |
| 23 | Buzz had warned Clare that there were to be no more arguments , and now all Elinor had to do was get well . |
| 24 | Feet splayed , shoulders back , all he had to do was to look ethereal , wield his sword , and remember one verse of poetry . |
| 25 | All she had to do was provide three good meals a day . |
| 26 | According to reports the scheme is being allowed by Buckingham Palace and actively supported by Prince Michael of Kent , said to have been appointed unpaid chairman of the firm 's advisory board . |
| 27 | I thought this must be the end for all three of us but in fact all the policeman wanted to do was to stop any traffic going on to the Via Emilia as a big convoy was on its way south towards Parma . |
| 28 | ‘ Well , anyway … the last thing I wanted to do was to get involved in a fight — especially as I had the children with me . |