Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] [adv] [to-vb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally she chose a plump boiling fowl , in deference to that great Gascon King of France , Henri Quatre , whose ambition it had been to see that all his subjects were well fed enough to have a chicken in their pot each week , and had made La Poule Au Pot a loved and traditional name for restaurants . |
| 2 | NEARLY 40 new homes were officially opened today to put a roof over the heads of 180 people . |
| 3 | No it 's not that I was just getting together to play a bit of recording stuff . |
| 4 | Here is the opposite extreme , three or four weeks later , when he was still struggling hard to become a dancer but already working hard on his first ballet : |
| 5 | He was probably sent there to take a look at some local biochemical machines because even a quick glance would be very revealing to an expert , and Ralph Pike is an expert . |
| 6 | It was often used simply to mean a situation better than had prevailed before the war and it had a powerful if vague appeal . |
| 7 | The rampart front itself was subsequently cut away to accommodate a massive stone wall set on a foundation of limestone , clay and rubble lenses , which presumably incorporated the existing tower at the south-east gate . |