Example sentences of "[vb past] to [be] [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | I pretended to be looking at some papers when the door opened and Grace Hinkle ushered in a sophisticated-looking female of about twenty-eight . |
| 2 | Penelope walked slowly away from the house , then pretended to be locking at an empty house which was to be sold two doors away from where Rupert lived . |
| 3 | to exercise the power contained in Article 134 ( B ) of the Articles of Association of the Company so that , to the extend determined by the Directors , the holders of Ordinary Shares be permitted to elect to receive new Ordinary Shares of 25p each in the capital of the Company , credited as fully paid , instead of all or part of any dividend declared or proposed to be declared at any time prior to or at the next Annual General Meeting of the Company ; and |
| 4 | The sum , substantially in excess of estimates by the country 's central bank which had recently estimated borrowing to pay for war costs at around $10,000 million [ see also pp. 37987 ; 38166 ; 38212 ] , was expected to cover current expenditure reported to be running at some $20,000 million . |
| 5 | Some of these comments related to two very important aspects of the Board 's work and deserved to be looked at in a little more detail . |
| 6 | She 'd decided at first that her brother deserved what was coming to him , but on reflection no one deserved to be thrown at Guido 's mercy . |
| 7 | This was in marked contrast to the situation in some other European countries where more formally theoretical disciplines came to be placed at the curricular core of the nation . |
| 8 | One strange chapter in this story came to be written at Geneva in 1986 when a difficult problem of ceiling division in conference was overcome by Iran 's proposal that Iraq be freed from the discipline of a quota , enabling it to produce as much as it chose . |
| 9 | How exactly corks came to be adopted at Hautvillers remains a mystery , but one story relates that when Spanish monks stopped at Hautvillers on their way north from Santiago de Compostela , Dom Pérignon noticed that their water-bottles were sealed with corks and requested supplies of this spongy material to be sent to him . |
| 10 | International statistical congresses came to be held at intervals from 1853 on , and the scientific standing of the subject was recognised by the election of the celebrated and admirable Dr William Farr ( 1807–83 ) to the Royal Society . |
| 11 | Jacobite seditious words , by their nature , express the belief that James should be King and not William ; often the speeches recorded in the legal documents are short and cryptic , and do not offer a full explanation of how that belief came to be arrived at . |
| 12 | And thus it was , that February evening , that she came to be standing at the top of the monumental sweep of the staircase , under the huge doorway , pausing for a moment , offering tribute to herself and all her gods . |
| 13 | I do n't know how it came to be shown at the Carlton , East Ham , but one Sunday my parents took me to see The Sheep Has Five Legs starring the French comedian Fernandel . |
| 14 | HOWARD Davies , 41 , controller of the Audit Commission , was swiftly presented with an ‘ agenda ’ yesterday after being confirmed as the next director-general of the Confederation of British Industry at a performance-related salary estimated to be starting at £175,000 . |
| 15 | There was a slow sensuous laziness to his movements contradicted by the dangerously hard angles of his face , the flashing darkness of his eyes which no matter how covertly she looked at him seemed to be gazing at her . |
| 16 | They seemed to be positioned at random as if the guests had been playing a game with them and not sitting around the table in an orderly fashion . |
| 17 | His smile disappeared and his next words seemed to be fired at her . |
| 18 | Its mouth was open and it seemed to be grinning at him . |
| 19 | Almost every part of my infuriating body seemed to be nagging at me for some sort of attention . |
| 20 | He had dropped down on to one knee and with head bowed seemed to be pushing at the trolley before him , which for some reason had taken on an obstinate immobility . |
| 21 | Their resentment focused on the way industry seemed to be benefiting at their expense . |
| 22 | Their resentment focused on the way industry seemed to be benefiting at their expense and they blamed the Finance Ministry 's favouritism towards industry for the plight — and the restiveness — of the peasantry . |
| 23 | The man whom Sergeant Bird ushered in through the door seemed to be buckling at the knees , and his Adam 's apple jerked furiously in his throat as he swallowed time and again . |
| 24 | He seemed to be looking at a picture only he could see . |
| 25 | She was forty-six : her face was unlined , her hair still golden without grey in it , her body trim , very trim , yet he seemed to be looking at an old woman . |
| 26 | One of the seneschal 's two right pupils seemed to be looking at him . |
| 27 | Quiss narrowed his eyes at the pupil which seemed to be looking at him . |
| 28 | She began to relax a little as she neared the department where she worked , then realised that any vague notion that she might slip into her office without anyone noticing was a non-starter — everybody seemed to be looking at her ! |
| 29 | The strength which seemed to be stressed at the beginning of the campaign was his niceness . |
| 30 | Driving through unfamiliar London streets had been nerve-racking enough — vehicles and flashing lights seemed to be coming at him from all angles — but with two kidnap victims in the back , his brain refused to function rationally . |