Example sentences of "[pron] was [adv] [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During my years in Oxford , working as I was largely in the field of recent Anglican ecclesiastical history , I was increasingly drawn to Anglicanism . |
| 2 | I was not sent to school . |
| 3 | I was not born to joy |
| 4 | Thank god I was n't listening to Radio 5 , else I 'd probably not have any fingernails left with worry that they would n't put even one past Swindon . |
| 5 | I was n't going to court to get the order reduced , just stopped for a while until I get a job . |
| 6 | It would have been stupid to say I was n't going to sleep with him , because I knew I would . |
| 7 | That 's why I was n't going to hand this out right at the beginning , because I wanted to make you work at it a bit more , er , then you can , when you 've got those two versions written underneath . |
| 8 | ‘ I was even taken to hospital at one point thinking I had a hypo coming on , but then we realised that I was actually having panic attacks — a delayed reaction to losing my sight . |
| 9 | In English I was I was just listening to music . |
| 10 | Oh is that I was just talking to man . |
| 11 | I was just going to bingo . |
| 12 | ‘ I was just going to bed when the police came . |
| 13 | I was just going to bed , he said . |
| 14 | afford , ca n't afford at the minute , I was just saying to dad Bri 's gon na get us some shopping on his cheque book , I tell you , did I tell you about his embarrassing moment ? |
| 15 | I was about to go to sleep . |
| 16 | Well I was only going to sleep Jo , I was n't doing anything , I 'm just tired . |
| 17 | I walked slowly back up the shabby road to this now miserable room , thinking all the while of what I ought to do or what I could do if I was ever going to outmanoeuvre these cunning poisoners . |
| 18 | I was once introduced to Sir somebody , David Webb I think , who was in charge of the Opera House . |
| 19 | Place Barn , Wilmington , Polegate , East Sussex Place Barn , Wilmington , is flint-walled barn which was formerly attached to Priory Farm at the head of the hill that leads out of the village to the South Downs . |
| 20 | Initially he was treated with ganciclovir for 3 months , which was later changed to foscarnet for lack of response and presumed resistance . |
| 21 | The cause of the emergency admissions and prolonged stay was not due to the procedure itself , but due to pain , which was invariably related to bile leaks that occurred late in the course of the recovery . |
| 22 | ‘ He was extremely drunk and in a stupor when he attempted the crime — which was never going to work . |
| 23 | Photocopied onto lightweight A4 maroon paper which was afterwards cut to size . |
| 24 | In the other case , two neighbours were helping to care for an 88-year-old single woman ; service-providers were not happy with this care and were suspicious about the neighbours ' management of the woman 's finances , so she was also admitted to hospital under a guardianship order . |
| 25 | It was n't like him , it was out of character , but she was n't acting to character either . |
| 26 | She was eventually taken to hospital , and this morning they told Moira that her condition is very serious . |
| 27 | She was admirably suited to membership of a caring profession . |
| 28 | She said that in any case , ‘ she was not given to crying ’ . |
| 29 | Somewhere in her thirties , long abandoned by a useless husband , and with two small children to bring up , she was not given to self-analysis . |
| 30 | She was not going to back down on this one , you could tell . |