Example sentences of "was [adv] [adv] [to-vb] [pers pn] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The correct policy with respect to them was thus not to abolish them but to subject them to constructive supervision . |
| 2 | I thought the doctor had forgotten to draw back the curtain , and I was just about to do it when I heard his voice . |
| 3 | But success at Covent Garden and Sadler 's Wells , invitations from the Paris Opéra and La Scala , Milan , the chance to collaborate with leading composers and painters — all this was not enough to satisfy him or occupy his energies fully . |
| 4 | Instead of putting it in the power of the creditor to prevent his debtor from obtaining his liberty on giving up his all , it vested the right of a negative in the judges in open court , where it was more just to place it than to allow it to remain in the power of the creditor who , from motives of resentment , was less likely to decide impartially in his own cause . |
| 5 | Simon : he was n't here to help her and she had no idea what had happened to him . |
| 6 | If that did n't work she 'd run like hell and scream like a banshee , but she was n't about to tell him that , especially since those long legs of his looked as though they could overtake her in seconds . |