Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] his [noun] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He believed that God was drawing his attention to this particular message from Scripture and that O'Neill was a harbinger of the troubles that lay ahead . |
| 2 | His only concession to emotion was to give his shirt to one of the ball-boys — a valuable memento for one German lad . |
| 3 | Also in March I announced that Dr David Owen was to give his endorsement to one of the parties in the general election . |
| 4 | Airlines attracted the attention of corporate buccaneers like Carl Icahn who was to turn his attention to that icon of American might USX ( the former United Steel ) . |
| 5 | Happy indeed is the curator of a select collection like the Mauritzhuis in The Hague , where one collector 's policy was to limit his collection to thirty excellent works , lesser works being discarded to make way for better . |
| 6 | During that communication , the pilot received and acknowledged instructions to maintain an altitude of 13,000 ft. until reaching the Toro intersection ( some 13 nmi south of the accident site ) , whereupon he was to begin his descent to 8,000 ft , at Maria intersection and then follow the Llegada Norte arrival procedure into ACA . |