Example sentences of "that [pron] was [verb] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The truth is that I was sent to Scotland to find out what happened , is happening and might happen . ’ |
| 2 | Oh they left it that I was to give to Arthur and June . |
| 3 | The other side of that is that I was listening to Medicine Now on Radio Four , and they 've got a device where they you actually have er an earpiece put into your ear and it clicks continuously . |
| 4 | Detective-Sergeant Prentice had specifically requested my presence and left instructions that I was to go to Queen 's Road and not Whipps Cross Hospital Mortuary . |
| 5 | On 14 October Coleridge wrote abstractedly to John Thelwall that , ‘ I should much wish , like the Indian Vishna , to float about along an infinite ocean cradled in the flower of the Lotos , & wake once in a million years for a few minutes — just to know that I was going to sleep a million years more . ’ |
| 6 | I started it basically on my own initiative and I said that for six months I would use it on people that I was going to sentence just to maintain a one judge control over the project and see how it was going . |
| 7 | I had told him that I was going to Bulith Wells , near where my parents lived , and he had agreed to drop me there . |
| 8 | She was screaming at me that I was going to prison , ’ said Falati . |
| 9 | but you see there , that I was saying to Penny |
| 10 | I was aware that I was attracted to boys and men from about the age of twelve or fourteen , but although I was brought up in London I still did n't find it very easy to have any sort of contact with other gay men . |
| 11 | The good thing is that I was introduced to Tracey right from the start . |
| 12 | It was a seemingly endless eight months before the letter arrived announcing Fiona had qualified for a Gold Award and that she was invited to St James 's Palace in London to receive it . |
| 13 | The social worker helped her examine more closely the cognitive ‘ roadblock ’ to action , and she conceded that she was jumping to conclusions that they would be annoyed with her if she postponed tea until 7 p.m . |
| 14 | It read that she was to go to Port Said where she 'd be met outside Simon Artz . |
| 15 | ‘ We conjecture that she was brought to Bartholomew Close on a market-porter 's barrow , and we feel that the journey started not too far away . |
| 16 | She suddenly realised how tired she was , but she made an effort and told him that she was travelling to Rome to join her aunt and uncle . |
| 17 | She announced , to my dismay , that she was coming to Salamanca for a week or so . |
| 18 | At the time of her appointment , Elizabeth acknowledged that she was coming to Lothian also at a time of great change with developments in the areas of delegated budgets for schools , curriculum guidelines for five to 14 year olds , nursery education and special education . |
| 19 | For the songwriter-pianist-producer led the blues queen to believe that she was signed to Columbia Records , when , in fact , she was actually signed to Williams and he was pocketing half of every recording fee . |
| 20 | She hardly knew what she was doing , barely realised that she was starting to unbutton his shirt , her fingers trembling in their haste to feel his skin , and he laughed deep in his throat , a glorying , exultantly male sound that thrilled the woman in her . |
| 21 | There followed a scene which so distressed Mrs. Aboody that she was reduced to tears . |
| 22 | He had taken all Anna 's coloured chalks , so that she was reduced to standing and watching while he drew the pictures . |
| 23 | Charlotte replied that she was going to Wiltham and she had an important interview . |
| 24 | She was glad that she was going to Rome as it brought their relationship to an end , cleanly and conclusively . |
| 25 | She accepted the cigarette as she accepted most offerings , and still elated at the sound of her French being understood and responded to by Frenchmen , volunteered the information that she was going to Nîmes , to stay with a family . |
| 26 | There was a knock on my door and my mother came into my room to tell me that she was going to work . |
| 27 | She began to wonder if Matthew knew himself that she was coming , that she was going to work for him again . |
| 28 | Minutes afterwards , Fabia was still sitting stunned and hardly able to credit that she was going to Prague with Vendelin Gajdusek — that he was allowing her to use a spare room in his Prague hotel suite ! |
| 29 | Soon after their first meeting , Barbara met her husband-to-be Ronnie Knight and announced that she was going to Madeira for her honeymoon . |
| 30 | She knew , then , that she was going to Aurae Phiala , to look at that charged , controversial , emotional ground-site for herself . |