Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [to-vb] [adv] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were woken up at 5.30 am , and Alex and I were told to go over to the kitchens to fetch the breakfast . |
| 2 | After a fortnight we were told to go down to the airfield for a possible lift into Assam , but often refugees went in the morning but were back in the evening as the planes were so busy taking out wounded soldiers . |
| 3 | Furthermore , they were told to point out to the mother that LGS would not reduce the output of stool from the sick child , but was meant to prevent the dehydration associated with the diarrhoea . |
| 4 | However , the principle in Williams v Singer can not be taken too far and Lord Sands in Reid 's Trustees v IRC made the point that if the trustees were actually to receive the income which they were bound to pay over to the beneficiaries they will not avoid an assessment on themselves . |
| 5 | Subjects were asked to look either to the left or to the right while choosing the odd one out from among three Hebrew words . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , if you were intending to go back to the States with your fiancée … ’ |
| 7 | If what Tillich says of the Buddhist concept of compassion were taken to apply also to the Hindu concept of compassion , then his assessment is equally inaccurate in that context . |
| 8 | Crushed , however , at the Lechfeld near Augsburg in 955 by Otto I , they were forced to turn inwards to the settlement of the Danubian plain . |
| 9 | Local farmers , too , were forced to face up to the unpleasant fact that they could no longer compete with the Poles because of the low cost of Polish labour and the high Reich and Polish tariff barriers . |
| 10 | It rained solidly every single day in fact , and it did n't stop as we were queuing to drive on to the ferry . |
| 11 | Girls were chosen to go along to the Sophisticut salon in Paignton , Devon where they spent the day being pampered and totally transformed by Christopher and his artistic team . |
| 12 | It took a moment for the full enormity of what was happening to filter through to the brandy-drenched consciousness of the member reading The Times . |
| 13 | Under George Bush , NASA was committed to go back to the moon and on to Mars , and the space station was arguably a step on that road . |
| 14 | As soon as lunch was over , Mr Evans was fidgeting to get back to the shop . |
| 15 | ‘ He said he was going to drive up to the Spaniard 's for a drink . |
| 16 | Chairman , er if I might I was going to refer again to the care carefully worded recommendation which does n't actually mention the level of erm it simply mentions erm er a modest extent of under provision because clearly it says elsewhere in the report at two ten that it 's not yet known whether there will be opportunities elsewhere , so that 's a particular shortfall in provision to be made up . |
| 17 | Cos we had to repack it you see because it was going to take a it was going to take probably not it was going to go right to the end with this lot on . |
| 18 | She looked from him to Michael and realised that her brother was going to go over to the man . |
| 19 | In my message I told them that I was going to fly close to the control tower to see if they could tell me what was wrong with my port wheel , but again no reply from control . |
| 20 | For a moment I thought he was going to get back to the DIY metaphor and start to try to get them to see me as undercoat or Jesus Christ as primer , but , instead , he recovered himself enough to say , ‘ Great News ! ’ |
| 21 | While the rest of the group stood around the microphone Eva was invited to move over to the corner . |
| 22 | The joint credibility of Zaidie and Matadial was crucial and was bound to vary inversely to the credibility of the defendant . |
| 23 | The City was beginning to wake up to the fact that the Labour movement , all told , had a great deal of money at its disposal — especially in the pension funds of Labour-controlled local authorities . |
| 24 | She was having to face up to the confusion in her : that she was married to a man she loved but there was this ‘ Boy-in-the-box ’ . ’ |
| 25 | As the nose of the aircraft was raised and some right bank smoothly applied the aircraft was observed to flick suddenly to the right to ninety degrees of bank , whereupon the nose dropped and it descended steeply to the ground . |
| 26 | now it is worn on the third finger of the left hand where a vein of love was believed to run straight to the heart . |
| 27 | Barry , assistant manager at Perry 's brasserie in Beaumont Street , was forced to drive back to the bar in his own car and ordered to open the safe . |
| 28 | The reigning Commonwealth middleweight champion Stevens was forced to move up to the heavier weight following a knee injury and a prolonged viral infection . |
| 29 | The reigning Commonwealth middleweight champion Stevens was forced to move up to the heavier weight following a knee injury and a prolonged viral infection . |
| 30 | We are sure that that reading is incorrect because we think the second category was meant to relate only to the skill and knowledge of the employee acquired during employment and that the Court of Appeal 's approach is consistent with authority and is correct . |