Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] to [pers pn] [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | So anyway , he erm had his say quite a long story and er the Chairman turned round all of a sudden and he s he could n't say the Chairman er said call him cos that 's what we call him and he said er he said erm would you like to come back to the rostrum again and he said erm you were explaining to me about an accident you had in the quarry in quarry , erm some years back and he said , I 'd like you to explain to these people . |
| 2 | It was n't as if she was attracted to him as an individual . |
| 3 | The opening of the Scherzo sounds remarkably like the twittering of birds in the trees , something I first noticed when it was played to me on an 1820s Graaf piano similar to the one owned by Schubert . |
| 4 | Simon Brown J. cited no authority for this dictum , so far as it related to the possibility of supervisory jurisdiction of the High Court over the visitors to the Inns of Court , but it was cited to us as an example of a suggested parallel with the supervisory jurisdiction which the High Court undoubtedly exercises in other contexts which in some respects may be thought to be comparable . |
| 5 | Later a sketch of a reusable coffin was sent to me by an interested correspondent . |
| 6 | This was sent to them with an information leaflet . |
| 7 | It was suggested to me by an Italian recipe for a sauce or relish called sapore de morone which appears in Epulario , first published in Venice in 1516 . |
| 8 | It was described to us by an experienced wildlife film-maker , Alastair MacEwen , who was filming house martins with a high speed camera . |