Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] was [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I worked through the night to get them done and then drove to her house where she was confined to bed , ’ says Alan . |
| 2 | She had stalked him with infinite care , she had attacked him frontally , she had thrown herself at him and teased him , and had finally reached the point of consummation where he was coming to dinner , in an empty house , wanting her . |
| 3 | The other side of that is that I was listening to Medicine Now on Radio Four , and they 've got a device where they you actually have er an earpiece put into your ear and it clicks continuously . |
| 4 | On 14 October Coleridge wrote abstractedly to John Thelwall that , ‘ I should much wish , like the Indian Vishna , to float about along an infinite ocean cradled in the flower of the Lotos , & wake once in a million years for a few minutes — just to know that I was going to sleep a million years more . ’ |
| 5 | I started it basically on my own initiative and I said that for six months I would use it on people that I was going to sentence just to maintain a one judge control over the project and see how it was going . |
| 6 | She was screaming at me that I was going to prison , ’ said Falati . |
| 7 | She hardly knew what she was doing , barely realised that she was starting to unbutton his shirt , her fingers trembling in their haste to feel his skin , and he laughed deep in his throat , a glorying , exultantly male sound that thrilled the woman in her . |
| 8 | He had taken all Anna 's coloured chalks , so that she was reduced to standing and watching while he drew the pictures . |
| 9 | There was a knock on my door and my mother came into my room to tell me that she was going to work . |
| 10 | She began to wonder if Matthew knew himself that she was coming , that she was going to work for him again . |
| 11 | India did not want the textbooks that it was exporting to Southeast Asia and Africa to be pirated , and it wanted to ensure a market for its own emerging computer and pharmaceutical industries . |
| 12 | When Paul called me back to ask whether he was serious about this , I replied , yes , although I must admit I did n't hear strings and flutes on ‘ Space Oddity ’ at the beginning but once the track was done , it was obvious that it was going to work really well . |
| 13 | I believe that it was attached to leather or wood ; perhaps a harness decoration or cabinet . |
| 14 | He replied that on the facts as stated it did not appear , at least so far as the testator 's words were concerned , that it was entrusted to Pamphilus that he should make over a hundred . |
| 15 | Patrick knew that he was bleeding to death . |
| 16 | Lester Piggott , his brilliant successor from the 1960s to the 1980s , was driven by such a desperate , obsessive need for wealth and security that he was sent to prison for persistently defrauding the Inland Revenue of its share of his millions . |
| 17 | The authorities have not responded to widespread allegations that he was beaten to death . |
| 18 | In a letter to Zborowski dated 27 February , he told his dealer that he was going to work at No. 13 Rue de France . |
| 19 | Christina gave up and was relieved when he announced that he was going to bed . |
| 20 | In November 1989 , Coleman reluctantly agreed to resign his commission with the Boy Scouts of America , giving as his reason that he was returning to journalism with a job in Germany . |
| 21 | But when I turned up at the hospital they put me on call and I was called to Casualty to anaesthetise a man . |
| 22 | ‘ She discovered a problem with a blood test and I was admitted to hospital . ’ |
| 23 | Mum just wrapped her up , rang the ambulance , and I was taken to hospital . |
| 24 | So I decided that it was time to pack up I decided that the nights were made to sleep on n n n and I was going to sleep on them you see ? |
| 25 | I started off playing mid-field er and I was switched to full-back by Billy Bremner at Doncaster half way through this season , and I been playing full-back since like . |
| 26 | But when you loved it , did n't you I mean I know I did when I was a young person first drinking erm I definitely had the feeling that if I was drinking to excess I was n't doing the right thing , whereas the impression we give in Oxford that drinking to the excess is perfectly acceptable behaviour . |
| 27 | For instance , once when a friend from Australia was coming to stay with me , she asked me if I was going to sleep with her . |
| 28 | Tell me some of the things that happen when you 're you 're working out a function , what would what would be the the overall picture if someone was going to work out a function ? |
| 29 | I was perfectly happy until I was sent to school at the age of five . |
| 30 | Also conceived in the tropics was a model of landscape development which was generated against the background of the seasonally humid tropics rather than the semi-arid , and which was related to weathering profiles and to igneous rocks and the experience of soil scientists together with the benefits of inputs from climatic geomorphology . |