Example sentences of "that [was/were] [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Towards the end of his playing career when he was with Hibs and contemplating a move to the Orlando Lions , a short lived soccer team in Florida , Rough 's business interests not only brought him appalling bad luck but imposed a series of financial set-backs that were to affect him in the years to come . |
| 2 | And luck , a commodity the spirited teenager had never been short of , played a crucial part in the events that were to set her on the path to millions . |
| 3 | LUCKY BREAK : A young Joe shows the style that was to turn him into the world champ |
| 4 | At the beginning of September , 1715 , the mission left St. Petersburg on an incredible journey that was to take it from the shore of the Baltic Sea in the west , almost to the Pacific Ocean in the east , crossing the full width of European Russia , much of Siberia , Mongolia 's Gobi Desert and deep into China . |
| 5 | Those first six dancers had come to celebrate the newly awakened school of English classical dance that was establishing itself with the coming of peace . |
| 6 | The courage of Peter er after his denial is something that was given him by the Holy Spirit . |
| 7 | He raised his wings and pulled them back a little , bent his head forward , slightly opened his beak , and lunged forward and down at the white flesh of the hand that was pushing itself with a piece of sandwich through the front bars of his cage . |
| 8 | He jumped out of the van and pulled off a sack that was hiding something in the back of the truck . |
| 9 | Her voice faded as her body weakened and drooped , so that she seemed no more than the shadow of the eagle she must once have been , and a shadow that was losing itself in the darkness of a cage . |
| 10 | There too a twenty year old who has managed to kick a habit that was leading him down a dangerous path . |