Example sentences of "i [was/were] [verb] [to-vb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was caused to go for a walk to get some fresh m-m-m-m-m-m — |
| 2 | JUNE 20 : Today I was selected to play for the village . |
| 3 | At the recent Annual Parish Meeting of Nether Wyresdale I was asked to press for the extension of the pavement at least as far at the end of the existing hedge . |
| 4 | It was an enormous poster of various garden birds which I was asked to do for the school office . |
| 5 | Some time later , I was persuaded to try for a spot in the formidable writer 's Waterloo that is the NME Subs ' Room . |
| 6 | I was going to ask for a couple of hours off and then he says , oh do n't bother ! |
| 7 | We 'd had dinner and were on our way back to the hotel when I told him I was going to go for a walk before going to bed . |
| 8 | You really think I was going to fall for a line like that and hand Barry over to you ? ’ |
| 9 | Er I told him I was going to try for the Co-op . |
| 10 | And there was a point where I was going to look for a job , drift off and forget about it . |
| 11 | My next bout of health problems prevented me from continuing this search , and I was forced to wait for the weather to become a little sunnier before taking the risk of venturing out . |
| 12 | They refused to open the gate , and became aggressive , so I was forced to pay for the extra hours parking . |