Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv] [to-vb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were instructed not to interfere in the internal politics of Indonesia but to hand over , in due time , to the legitimate authority : that is , the Netherlands . |
| 2 | The men called to pick up their holiday pay and were told not to return in the New Year . |
| 3 | One class , after looking at an old muster roll and hearing how men in their county were called up to fight in the militia , made a cut-out army of 150 cardboard soldiers . |
| 4 | The Secretary-General was asked to organize an air bridge for food aid as a matter of urgency , and all parties and factions were called on to co-operate in the deployment of UN security personnel . |
| 5 | Claudia felt as if she were running hard to remain in the same place . |
| 6 | The pair were pitched together to play in the opening two rounds , and while Couples collapsed with a 77 , Faldo reduced their duel in the sun to a calculated ambush . |
| 7 | What was really getting to him was the fact that alien-fever was proving hard to eradicate in the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist . |
| 8 | ‘ I was starting to make the Sunday dinner and Brian said he was going out to play in the park . |
| 9 | If she misbehaved , she was packed off to sleep in the old people 's home in another part of the building — a terrifying prospect for a girl with such a vivid imagination . |
| 10 | ‘ Robert had just taken over the Seconds , but was called back to play in the first team . |
| 11 | A policy decision was taken not to bid in the standard commercial power electronics market , but to concentrate in the more specialised nuclear and petrochemical sector where the company 's strengths lie . |
| 12 | ‘ In the primary-school playground , of course , when I was singled out to stand in the centre of a ring while a dozen sweet-faced little girls danced round me chanting ‘ Shannon 's dad 's a robber . ’ ' |