Example sentences of "[was/were] [pron] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 LISTENING TO TONY FOSTER TALK about his territory — General chemicals — you could find yourself wondering how he and old Ludwig Mond would get on , were someone to introduce them across the gap of more than a century .
2 Erm I mean I 'm concerned again through his eyesight that i were we to put him as the assistant and put him on a machine , that he might just put his hand somewhere and get his hand bloody trapped or whatever with his eyesight .
3 In practice , there might be situations of doubt ; a man might claim that there was nothing to alert him to the girl 's age ( e.g. a 15-year-old girl , who looks much older , soliciting in a street with other prostitutes ) .
4 There was nothing to tie him to the place now .
5 What he needed was someone to get him by the scruff of the neck , tell him a few home truths and offer emotional stability .
6 ‘ There was nobody to touch him on the pitch , ’ he said .
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