Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv prt] [to-vb] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I do n't know , I think it 's a bit , it 's like Sheila , I mean when David first went out there that 's all she kept on about was going out to live in Australia . |
| 2 | I was coming back to teach in England after teaching in Nigeria , so I had to get used to the whole thing again . |
| 3 | This was allotted out to place in work five aged women , four young girls and one boy , who being able to work were set to spinning hemp . |
| 4 | I was brought up to believe in niceness the way other people believe in God . |
| 5 | Jim Hegan , one of the three , says of the day he was convicted : ‘ Everything that I was brought up to believe in respect for law and order and the RUCwas shattered . |
| 6 | She arrived one day in the clinic in the peak of health and triumphantly announced that she had just got married and was setting out to live in Palm Springs with her husband . |