Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [to-vb] [adv prt] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | he , he were due to go back in the army and he overstayed |
| 2 | His footsteps were hard to pick out in the roaring darkness . |
| 3 | If it had , they were liable to end up in the Husayn twins ' pockets . |
| 4 | I had said that her view was unreasonable and Syl was free to go out in the evening as he wished . |
| 5 | Major Match was favourite to follow up in the latest running of the Kempton contest , but had a rough time , getting knocked around before trailing in last behind Far Senior . |
| 6 | Her face was hard to make out in the half-light . |
| 7 | JUST when you thought it was safe to go back in the lending library , another Henry Miller novel is unearthed . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm just really happy I was able to come back in the second and third sets , ’ said Sukova , who held three set points in the first set , including two in the tie-break , before Sanchez took the decider 9–7 . |
| 9 | As Timothy West tells it , this was a moment as chilling as any Ken was able to conjure up in the theatre . |
| 10 | Jim had not really woken up for his breakfast and was happy to curl up in the back again . |
| 11 | For funding reasons , health service membership of the teams was slow to build up in the early 1980s and key actors in the local health services were never entirely happy with the developmental role assigned to the CMHTs . |
| 12 | But erm it was diagnosed late , you see , having polyneuritis for three months , that the er the movement was last to come back in the toes and feet . |