Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [to-vb] [adv prt] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the street below the house with the dome people were pausing to look up at the arrows in the spike . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He was intended to come down at the wrong moment , disappear , do the same again , then go shooting through the roof when the mechanics of the wire go wrong . |
| 5 | When a colleague had some treatment , a tape was played and he was made to look up at the highest point of the ceiling . |
| 6 | I did n't know quite where or how or with whom but I was going to turn in at the Gendarmerie and take it from there . |
| 7 | There was no way I was going to walk out at the end of all that . |
| 8 | Falati was allowed to stay on at the house after the intervention of Mr Mandela . |
| 9 | And I got the book it must have a bus you know ano , another , an extra bus on because he was allowed to get off at the tonight . |
| 10 | He was across the road and halfway back down Fleet Street before it occurred to him that they had been staring at him like that because they thought he was trying to push in at the head of the queue . |