Example sentences of "was [adv] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr R. Newcombe was duly elected to serve in this office for the ensuing year . |
| 2 | He held on to his love of unregimented activity in the open air , away from encroaching London suburbia , and he cherished a sense of belonging to another country — Cambria or Gwalia , Glamorgan or Gwent — in addition to the still strange city he was slowly beginning to explore along both banks of the Thames . |
| 3 | He proceeded to Cawsand and reported , ‘ Here was the scene of much confusion in the late war , when the French fleet was daily seen to float about this bay meditating destruction to the docks at Plymouth ’ . |
| 4 | Meanwhile Mr Gittings ' head was obviously beginning to spin from all this toing and froing . |
| 5 | How did you feel about that yourself the , the way the machinery had changed er and your , your trade was obviously having to adapt to that ? |
| 6 | I was just trying to get past some people in front of me and I stepped off the pavement and the driver — he did n't have a chance . |
| 7 | I was just going to deal with that one . |
| 8 | The court was not asked to rule on any of Unix Labs 's trade secrets claims , according to the company 's chief counsel , Sandy Tannenbaum . |
| 9 | The court was not asked to rule on any of USL 's trade secrets claims , according to USL 's chief counsel Sandy Tannenbaum . |
| 10 | ‘ Having regard to the terms of the contract , the conduct of the parties and the circumstances of the case , I have no doubt that the property was not intended to pass in this case on contract but only in exchange for a valid building society cheque , but even if it may be regarded as intended to pass in exchange for a false , but believed genuine , building society cheque it will not in my view avail the insurers . ’ |
| 11 | We agree with the judge that the Code simply was not intended to apply in such a context . |
| 12 | Holiness , in early medieval society , was not seen to lie above all in the cultivation of a personal and interior life of prayer , morality , and spiritual meekness . |
| 13 | Zukor had risked a great deal in his cover-up of evidence in the Taylor scandal , and he was not going to go through another nightmare , so he decided to have Reid put away . |
| 14 | She was not going to jump to any more dubious conclusions . |
| 15 | Norfolk 's and Rent 's adherence to Lancaster was motivated by little more than expediency , and when it looked as though he was not going to win after all they defected to Mortimer . |
| 16 | Elisabeth already felt herself rebuked in the presence of Fru Møller and the Colonel — over matters beyond her control — and she was not going to add to that burden of disapproval if she could avoid it ; not again . |
| 17 | The nineteenth century was to see its status as the language of diplomacy grow still further as it became even more a symbol of some underlying European unity which , however vague , was genuinely felt to exist by most of those who decided the continent 's destinies . |
| 18 | Small boats develop emotions to a fine pitch , and she felt that she would go with him to the end of the world , if his outboard was always going to start like that . |
| 19 | She was still struggling to adjust to this love , this , the biggest happening of her life . |
| 20 | He did , sliding fluidly into the driver 's seat of the red sports car and reversing expertly out of the driveway while she was still trying to recover from that last lightly sarcastic comment . |
| 21 | In January 1986 any operator was automatically licensed to run on any route outside London . |
| 22 | The revival of the policy was also calculated to deal with those ‘ Lloyd George malcontents ’ , such as Austen Chamberlain , who objected to the Conservative Party removing Lloyd George from office in 1922 . |
| 23 | Anyway , she wanted to , me to go and see her , she said there we there was a scanner appeal , and she was also trying to talk about all sorts of other things that were possible and because there was an arts appeal and for arts facilities at the hospital , and all sorts of things . |
| 24 | A man who spent four heady years as an undergraduate was often advised to go to another place to train for the ministry . |
| 25 | The argument of the 1842 Sketch ( and so , too , of the Origin ) was knowingly structured to accord with that vera causa ideal ( Hodge , 1977 ) . |
| 26 | Pembroke was well placed to speak for those who wanted a more vigorous and successful war : he had a special place in the king 's affections , and he had acquitted himself well in Aquitaine . |
| 27 | Ronald Reagan was well equipped to succeed in such situations . |
| 28 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan was well qualified to write about such matters . |
| 29 | So he paid the A B C , went early as a result of ill health er but got a lump sum back cos he was n't allowed to go across this . |
| 30 | Letters went home to our parents about it , our weekend leave was stopped and we was n't allowed to associate with any of the other girls . |