Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [adv] [verb] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was not accompanying her to the home but was treating her to a taxi all the way . |
| 2 | And you know this time when I went on a plane and I looked down , I was n't saying it to Ben |
| 3 | I 'm sorry I was n't relating it to erm to polio . |
| 4 | I was just mentioning it to you in case you wanted |
| 5 | She was now taking it to Peking . |
| 6 | She was about to tell him to be careful , but then she remembered how he had laughed at the idea that Gazzer could be dangerous , so she kept her mouth shut . |
| 7 | She was always demanding something to the extent that she completely upset the ward routine and had the nursing staff , much as they tried to sympathize with her , at the end of their tethers . |
| 8 | I thought they were out to get me to be honest with you . |
| 9 | 42% said they were actively doing something to ‘ avoid getting TB ’ and were asked the open-ended question ‘ what are you doing to avoid getting TB ? ’ . |
| 10 | Dyson was glaring into the hot , oily darkness of the engine as if he were about to smash it to pieces with his bare hands . |
| 11 | Great though improvements in European agriculture had been and were to be , it was industry which gave Europe world leadership , as it was later to give it to the United States . |
| 12 | The Cold War was reaching a point where , having reactivated the Anglo-American relationship , it was about to expose it to new strains and tensions . |
| 13 | But he was already leading her to the stairs . |
| 14 | He told me this foolish theory many times , but really he was just telling it to himself : the less of a woman be made me out to be , the less of a lover he would need to be . |
| 15 | Simon said that he was n't expecting me to be spotted by Ferrari that day ; he just wanted me to get round safely . |
| 16 | He was not using it to further his own human development , he was using it up for the profit of the people who paid him , the anonymous shareholders and their abstract interests . |
| 17 | He moved and acted , but the springs of his life and the driving force of his actions were not within himself … his strength was being spent on the grindstone of alien work ; he was not putting it to his own account . |
| 18 | On the other hand , while Franco was selling strategic minerals to Hitler , he was also selling them to the Allies , precisely because he did not want Spain to become the economic satellite of Germany . |
| 19 | He was always inviting me to little supper parties and so on , and it became so noticeable that other people began to make snide comments . |
| 20 | He was always taking me to one side , telling me what I should and should n't do . |
| 21 | The way he said it , it was as if he was only lending it to her in order to have her bring it back again , but she was forced to agree . |
| 22 | The right hon. Gentleman knows — there can be no doubt about it — that , until recently , as the foundations of the poll tax crashed around his ears , he was still proclaiming it to be a remarkable success and something which was here to stay . |