Example sentences of "was [verb] [to-vb] [adv prt] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was intended to come down at the wrong moment , disappear , do the same again , then go shooting through the roof when the mechanics of the wire go wrong . |
| 2 | When a colleague had some treatment , a tape was played and he was made to look up at the highest point of the ceiling . |
| 3 | I did n't know quite where or how or with whom but I was going to turn in at the Gendarmerie and take it from there . |
| 4 | There was no way I was going to walk out at the end of all that . |
| 5 | Easing the car into first gear , she set off back along the road , a frown deepening on her face as she was forced to crawl along at a snail 's pace , unable to see more than a couple of feet ahead in the ever-thickening snow . |
| 6 | Falati was allowed to stay on at the house after the intervention of Mr Mandela . |
| 7 | And I got the book it must have a bus you know ano , another , an extra bus on because he was allowed to get off at the tonight . |
| 8 | The Fire was started to get back at a prisoner who had refused to take part in a food boycott . |
| 9 | He was across the road and halfway back down Fleet Street before it occurred to him that they had been staring at him like that because they thought he was trying to push in at the head of the queue . |