Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] [verb] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the principle of user autonomy was limited with regard to freedom to leave the building during opening hours . |
| 2 | Some of the older drivers were not impressed , and one was given to shouting to drivers of passing modern cars , ‘ Get off yer backside and drive ! ’ |
| 3 | Did the Sunday trading laws pursue an aim which was justified with regard to Community law ? |
| 4 | In the Torfaen judgment the Court ruled , in relation to similar national legislation prohibiting the opening of retail shops on Sundays , that such a prohibition was not compatible with the principle of the free movement of goods provided for in the Treaty unless any obstacles to Community trade thereby created did not exceed what was necessary in order to ensure the attainment of the objective in view and unless that objective was justified with regard to Community law . |
| 5 | In the last chapter , this position was criticized by pointing to difficulties involved in any attempt to justify the inductive reasoning involved in the derivation of scientific laws and theories from observation . |
| 6 | I was walking along talking to Mika I think and it just shot up from in front of me , I had my foot out . |
| 7 | MIP-1 β was immobilized by binding to proteoglycan : a conjugate of heparin with bovine serum albumin and cellular proteoglycan CD44 were both effective . |
| 8 | The Greek achievement represented an ideal : special , superior , but still largely remote and mysterious ; Germany 's own new culture was to evolve by coming to terms with it ; and a collective effort was to be the means of realizing that aim . |
| 9 | This was done by standing to attention outside the station building with the station-master 's staff of office held out in front of the body . |
| 10 | Heather appeared in court manacled and was prevented from talking to reporters after his hearing . |
| 11 | Design and control appeared to be the main areas of commonality , indicating that a high degree of cooperation and communication was needed with regard to information of mutual interest . |
| 12 | There was another face then , which did n't have to be invented : a moustached face that had recently and endlessly appeared on the television news , the face of a man who was accused of battering to death the nanny of his children , of attempting to do the same to his wife . |
| 13 | That was why he was reduced to talking to George Harbinger . |
| 14 | But Wolfgang was set on going to Munich , armed with two new arias for Aloysia . |
| 15 | Tony Garnett produces for Temple in California , and it has to be as far as he has ever got from the Ken Loach films with which he was associated before going to America . |
| 16 | Who was talking of going to work for a different firm then ? |
| 17 | There were a number of contacts to make , both in New York and on the West Coast ; Cadogan 's was thinking of expanding to San Francisco to take advantage of the considerable artistic activity out there , and he had been asked to spend a week in reconnoitring and reviewing possible sites . |
| 18 | I was thinking of writing to TSB and the programme desk tomorrow advertising our group , I 'll send a draft letter so you can comment on it . |
| 19 | I was thinking of going to Austria about the end of September October but , if Alexander 's not going abroad I do n't know , I shall have to change me mind probably , I 'll have to have a word with Sue . |
| 20 | He said he was thinking of going to America for a while . |
| 21 | Try to get some er old door casings rip down from me you know , now , I was thinking of going to North Wales but I know what they 'd say cos it , the ones that I got from our Rob 's you know the they 're quite clean but of course they 've had nails in the , you know , the head like I made the cab some cabinets you know . |
| 22 | Peter said feebly that he was thinking of going to India next year . |
| 23 | ‘ The thing is , I was thinking of going to Prague myself , ’ she hung grimly on to her self-control to get started again . |
| 24 | yeah , you know I was gon na go to judo on Wednesday do n't I ? |
| 25 | I was gon na go to Reading but erm Sally-Ann ca n't make it cos there 's someone ill at work . |
| 26 | I mean the rumours were that he was gon na go to Cheam , he was supposed to be Saturdays for Cheam . |
| 27 | Always be terrified that that was gon na drop to bits would n't you ? |
| 28 | That 's why , cos she said I 'm just gon na know , I was gon na say to Richard that I was gon na ask Richard if if Emma , if he wants to go out with Emma ? |
| 29 | My mother believed that if she was gon na get to heaven , I had to marry . |
| 30 | Baghdad 's approach to this means of waging war was to begin by appealing to xenophobia . |