Example sentences of "[pron] were [verb] to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apparently Alice had told her that I were going to town with them |
| 2 | ‘ I knew I had to be tolerant of any mechanical faults which were bound to surface during the year , ’ he says . |
| 3 | Although initially encouraging , the approach proved to be fruitless and both bodies made independent arrangements within separately developed policies which were to lead to disagreement over the Cambridge Board 's RAC scheme for liberal adult education throughout the region , and which is considered in the next section of this chapter . |
| 4 | Have you heard the one about the two Scottish footballers who were condemned to death in Panama ? |
| 5 | The Serbs are first referred to as a distinct group in the Balkans in the writings of the Byzantine emperor Constantine VII ( Porphyrogenitus , nominally emperor from 913 to 959 but effectively so from 945 ) His massive work De administrando imperio , written in the tenth century , refers to Serbs who were subjects of his predecessors and who were converted to Christianity in the ninth century . |
| 6 | A PRIVATE member 's bill to introduce payments for Crown servants who were exposed to radiation during nuclear weapons tests and have since contracted leukaemia and other cancers , and to the dependants of those who have died , was presented to the Commons by Mr Bob Clay ( Lab . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Not to be outdone … the man who created thunderbirds is performing his own one man show … explaining with the help of Lady Penelope 's nine foot long Pink Rolls Royce … and the original puppets who were brought to life for the first time over twenty five years ago . |
| 9 | Perhaps of greater importance than those who were attracted to fascism for irrational or emotive reasons were those who were ideologically committed to the form of radicalism which BUF doctrine and propaganda promulgated . |
| 10 | Unknowingly we had sampled ( and enthusiastically approved ) this speciality the previous day when we were invited to lunch on the large covered terrace . |
| 11 | There was to be a reception , and later we were invited to dinner at the house of the British Council representative . |
| 12 | ‘ I also remember that some of us were individually handed pigeons that we were meant to cradle in our hands and then throw into the air in the centre-circle . |
| 13 | Every sunset the apes would return from their day 's foraging to sleep in the branches of this giant tree , and we were driven to distraction by our repeated attempts to film them properly in the few seconds after they arrived and before the sun set . |
| 14 | That would have enabled us to announce in our manifesto that when we were returned to office at the election we would take the most sensible course of action . |
| 15 | He 'd put his mind to it that he would n't , you know this he had it in mind that we were going to work for this thirty pound a week less , take it or leave it . |
| 16 | If we were going to cave in it would have been today . |
| 17 | Well , what we were going to sort of do , is similar to what you lot did , but it kinda came out wrong . |
| 18 | The spinners — Maru , Cook and Donelan — did most of the damage , and in Tortola we were guided to victory by the calm authority of Fordham who steered us through potentially troubled waters . |
| 19 | The party 's spin-doctors had remained sceptical about the polls , but they were expecting to be able to argue that the Conservatives had lost their mandate , even if they were clinging to power in a hung parliament . |
| 20 | The Sikhs , ignoring him , had been digging steadily for hours ; now they were beginning to shovel up wet earth . |
| 21 | They were flown to hospital in Aberdeen but released after a check-up . |
| 22 | After their 10km walk they were invited to Backnong for a special lunch that had been laid on by the Canal Dignitaries of the town . |
| 23 | They were ordered to camp in a swampy depression beside the Missouri which one observer suggested had been selected ‘ for the express purpose of putting an end to Chief Joseph and his band ’ . |
| 24 | They were donated to charity by a descendant of one of the Queen 's ladies-in-waiting . |
| 25 | More than 500 weavers went on strike in defence of this " ancient custom " , staying out through the winter from November to February before they were reduced to acceptance of the threepence compensation . |
| 26 | ‘ They were taken to hospital for examination but none suffered any real injury . |
| 27 | ‘ Kids kept insisting on actually meeting ‘ The Raisins ’ , so they were brought to life for celebrity appearances in New York 's Thanksgiving Day Parade — and even for the presidential inauguration , ’ said Ms Wood . |
| 28 | But often the- when they were in small houses where they had to do everything , erm they tended to find that they were they were expected to sort of skivvy much more . |
| 29 | Mm some people decided they were going to work as a , as a group on their table , to gather information and when you were doing the tallies last week , you helped each other did n't you , some of you helped , you were talking to one another to help make sure that you got the right number of tallies , if you worked with some other people to get the survey questions and do the tallies , sign it , if you did everything on your own , leave it blank is anyone not sure what to do there ? |
| 30 | She would go with Julius — and by the time they returned to the house she would know if they were going to part as friends or enemies . |