Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hoarse words were intended to come out as a joke , but instead they held a raw note of emotion which seemed to hang in the air between them . |
| 2 | You may have then had a verbal exchange with your next in line , but bar that you were expected to get on with the work . |
| 3 | We could n't often see them from the main road which passed in front of the building because they were forbidden to look out of the windows . |
| 4 | In the street below the house with the dome people were pausing to look up at the arrows in the spike . |
| 5 | They were made to lie down on the floor in the back . |
| 6 | It seems that when they were made to lie down in the back of the truck and their hands were tied behind them , Katrine remembers there being rags underneath her . |
| 7 | Unfortunately those officers were needed to help out with the incident at Milton Keynes … shortly before the display . |
| 8 | We were woken up at 5.30 am , and Alex and I were told to go over to the kitchens to fetch the breakfast . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | A second controlled explosion was carried out at 10.55pm and people were told to stay up to a mile away from the scene . |
| 12 | Ray Angel and Brian Hodgson were entrusted to come up with a suitably electronic-sounding voice . |
| 13 | You see , so these people were going to move in at the weekend so had to put a stop to that cos they had no authority to move in there until the solicitors try and get this thing sorted out . |
| 14 | Generally , when you played Jimmy Connors you understood you were going to stay out on the court for four or five hours , at least . ’ |
| 15 | On arrival , conference participants were invited to sign up for a workshop of their choice . |
| 16 | Above all , the historians were inspired to carve out of the record of the past an exclusive nationalist slice . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Class divisions hitherto non-existent or only latent in English society were beginning to open up as the Agrarian and Industrial Revolutions gained momentum , and popular unrest was in the air . |
| 19 | I was busy doing interviews , as the media were beginning to pick up on the story . |
| 20 | Street lights were starting to come on in the distance , crimson slivers slowly brightening to orange . |
| 21 | The blame fell on pollution ; not the clouds of smoke and occasional waves of sulphur dioxide which were known to drift up from the industrial valleys of the Ruhr and kill off the sensitive firs , but the more insidious long-term changes implied by acid rain . |
| 22 | Mounted officers called ‘ rangers ’ were appointed to drive back into the forest deer which had strayed into the purlieus . |
| 23 | In one task — rhyme monitoring — subjects were asked to listen out for a word which rhymed with a cue word given in advance ( e.g. doubt ) . |
| 24 | In the other task — category monitoring — subjects were asked to listen out for a word belonging to a particular semantic category ( e.g. fish ) . |
| 25 | Instead the 20 District Health authorities involved were asked to come up with a £9,000 each by tomorrow afternoon . |
| 26 | The two understudies were asked to come back on the Friday afternoon , when there was going to be a complete run of the play for the producers and Malcolm Harris . |
| 27 | ‘ Well , if you were intending to go back to the States with your fiancée … ’ |
| 28 | Several Perks were fighting to get out of the crack . |
| 29 | The servants were allowed to go out at the discretion of the matron and the house surgeon , and the house was to be locked up at 10 p.m . |
| 30 | Sometimes my brothers and I were allowed to get out of the car with him and peek at the movie in progress while he spoke to the manager or cashier . |