Example sentences of "[noun] was [verb] [pron] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now Donald was bracing himself to take the weight of the heavier outer door and Donald McLaggan was helping him , easing it up off its hinges . |
| 2 | By then Posi was asking me to explain the connection between Ardakkean phetam and the carrion bird of Old Earth called the vulture . |
| 3 | ‘ You know we are Jews and Jews remember what happened 50 years ago and during this time nobody in the world was doing anything to save the Jews , ’ Kahn told reporters at Zagreb 's Pleso airport . |
| 4 | She also sensed that Silas was taking her to see the kiwi because it was something he himself enjoyed doing . |
| 5 | Mr Major , he said , was like a ‘ runaway train rushing headlong down the track ’ when the whole country was telling him to stop the Government 's ‘ privatisation madness ’ . |