Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [verb] [verb] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | … why am I writing all this out as if I were trying to assimilate myself to her ? |
| 2 | I was intending to give them to you when you married . |
| 3 | And I was trying to explain something to her in German . |
| 4 | But just as I was trying to explain it to her , they repeated the telephone number , so I rang them up . |
| 5 | It took me quite a while to convince him that my being with you was because I was trying to persuade you to — ’ |
| 6 | afternoon and I was going to ask you to sort of sum up with your views as the sort of |
| 7 | Erm he 's just come down with this rotten old cough and cold again and I was going to take him to the doctor 's but then they do n't like it giving them anything and I do n't like giving him anything so |
| 8 | I was going to return them to you . ’ |
| 9 | To be frank I was going to give her to you to break in . ’ |
| 10 | And I was going to sell it to Harrods , it 's such an awful book , I really had decided to sell it to Harrods . |
| 11 | I sat numbly by the open window , with my legs pressed together , my arms hugging my sides and my hands gripping each other , to combat the sensation that I was going to shake myself to pieces . |
| 12 | Alternatively , of course , as many people do , you could use the capital for a worthwhile project such as improving your home ; or , if you were planning to give something to your grandchildren , this could be an opportune time to settle it on them . |
| 13 | ‘ I thought any time she was going to ask me to be bridesmaid . ’ |
| 14 | She said she was going to take them to the men working on the road . ’ |
| 15 | She sounded pleased to say it and Tug stared at her , with a wild hope that she was going to explain everything to him . |
| 16 | She had to get a move on if she was going to make it to the city before noon . |
| 17 | When an hour later she did surface , she knew at once that there was no way she was going to make it to the office on time . |
| 18 | She was just a young kid fronting a band , determined she was going to make it to the top — like her idol . ’ |
| 19 | She realised with a suppressed groan that she was forced to justify herself to the chief superintendent in the same terms as she had defended herself against Christine Mills . |
| 20 | She was deciding to devote herself to supporting him as he leapt from one peak to another . |
| 21 | We had a job which was involved in loading up the day before this is in a big van , in the previous job I I had , er er a large van fu filling it full of a houseful of furniture in the afternoon , sp spending two or three hours taking it out of store , and we were asked to deliver it to an address in New Brighton . |
| 22 | Well this is why we were trying to relate it to districts . |
| 23 | Joseph and His Amazing Technicolour , performed by Our People 's Theatre Arts Group , was so well received they were asked to take it to lots of other venues , including Sunderland Empire . |
| 24 | Years later they even kept a black panther for a while , until there were complaints and they were forced to send it to a wildlife park . |
| 25 | The drovers disposed the cattle , tended them until the sale-day , and when they were sold delivered them to the farmers who had bought them . |
| 26 | They , likewise , would find it most unusual and uncongenial if they were expected to devote themselves to constraining and criticizing a Conservative Government . |
| 27 | SO even if they felt hostility , they were going to keep it to themselves . |
| 28 | Brom not Brompton Barracks , Barracks , and I saw him there first of all and then he told me they were going send me to Tidworth . |
| 29 | The Security Council always tut-tutted when anybody suggested that it was trying to starve anybody to death , but if sanctions were going to be effective then people would die because they did not get enough to eat . |
| 30 | In the case of Alan Charlton , he has these six very fine grey panels , by very fine I just mean they are handsomely proportioned , they are very carefully coloured to a very precise , not just colour but also weight of colour and brightness and so on , but the way they 're shown in the Royal Academy Exhibition , and this is part of it 's stupidity , is , well I got the feeling it was intended to kill them to stone dead by putting them next to something very loud , very elaborate , very expressionist , a vast canvass by a very good painter by Mutter . |