Example sentences of "and was [verb] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stopped to inspect the latest Piaget watches and was tempted to buy one for Susan . |
| 2 | ‘ Soliciting … she was known to have men at her house and was seen to stop them in the street . |
| 3 | Spennymoor impresario John Wray met Angie last summer and was inspired to book her for several tours of the North-East . |
| 4 | I had come this far and was determined to make it to France . |
| 5 | He had control of Shakespeare 's ‘ time ’ and was determined to milk it for every ounce of potential profit . |
| 6 | In any case , he was eager to start work upon another play and was trying to extricate himself from various official duties in order to give himself room for composition : he resigned from the board of the Christian News Letter , for example , on the grounds of lack of time . |
| 7 | A man , a large man , was beating a woman , a little woman who seemed scarcely more than a child , and was trying to drag her into one of the tenements which lined the opposite side of the road . |
| 8 | For a moment , Implexion thought she meant their affair and was attempting to push it into the realms of firm commitment . |
| 9 | Poor Mrs Sugden had her leg put in plaster , and was forced to bump herself down the stairs to get her husband 's meals — he had no intention of spoiling her . |
| 10 | If the diagnosis of perforation was confirmed , the patient was given intravenous fluids and antibiotics and was advised to take nothing by mouth . |
| 11 | Gabriel had cut inside the turn and was racing to meet them on their other flank . |
| 12 | Thereafter he became a missionary of heathen Africa , wrote a seminal alchemical text called the Clavicula , and was reputed to turn himself into a red cock when occasion demanded . |