Example sentences of "was [adj] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The finished clothes were delivered to the hotel on her last morning in Paris only an hour before Bob Storrington was due to collect her for lunch . |
| 2 | The man was a murderer , and the judge was right to condemn him to death . |
| 3 | It was odd to find him in charge of such a low-level enterprise as the Vadinamian protection racket . |
| 4 | The script kept sending out these little signals ( 'It 's only when there 's land around that sea travel becomes really interesting' ) but it was possible to take them as evidence not of exhaustion but of apprehension about the project . |
| 5 | Yet women , of my generation were the first to have the chance to refuse burdens that just could n't be borne , to understand that it was possible to refuse them without censure , to realise that if you still could n't have everything , you could at least make some choices about what you could have . |
| 6 | Once Newton 's physics had been constituted , it was possible to apply it in detail to astronomy . |
| 7 | She had tried not to mind and was careful to shew nothing but pleasure . |
| 8 | He became desperate and was willing to try anything in search for a solution to his problem . |
| 9 | She could almost hear him making the effort to be cheerful , as if he was afraid to disappoint her in case she decided not to ring him again . |
| 10 | He did n't know how to stop her and when she did stop by herself , when they got to the junction and had to change trains , he was afraid to say anything in case she started again , and so he said nothing . |
| 11 | The hand was hot , the skin dry and the slender fingers lay in her palm like splinters of fine porcelain — she was afraid to squeeze them for fear they might snap . |
| 12 | Our new landlady made it clear that she was delighted to accept us in preference to yet more evacuee children . |
| 13 | They could not understand why their exemplary son had left university with an excellent degree and was content to submerge himself in dole culture as he waited for his band to make it . |
| 14 | She was a silk-and-satin girl ; it was hard to imagine her in denim and cotton . |
| 15 | Simon was supposed to take me for lunch an hour ago , ’ she said , hearing herself rattle on , yet unable to stop , ‘ but he seems to have forgotten and I 'm hungry and — ’ |
| 16 | She was supposed to speak nothing but French all day . |
| 17 | No , I mean he rang , I was supposed to ring him at home though . |
| 18 | Purvis had even stood up , maybe in the expectation of aggro , so I was glad to disappoint him by greeting Lewis like a soul brother and flashing fifty quid at him . |
| 19 | The hair was blow-dried to give lots of body using Wella 's High Hair Volumising Mousse . |
| 20 | Everyone was agog to hear what on earth comrade Khrushchev would say . |
| 21 | In its majority opinion the Court found that " the mere existence of a generalized political " motive to the coercion was inadequate to qualify someone for protection under the 1980 Act , and that the law required the persecution to be motivated by the opinions of the victim rather than by those of the persecutor . |
| 22 | Jesus had probably been told about Zacchaeus and so was able to call him by name . |
| 23 | Unable to avoid it , however , he faced O'Rourke in New Orleans where it became apparent that the Irishman had no idea of fighting ; Burke was able to hit him at will . |
| 24 | Each man had grandiose visions , Neither was able to turn them into reality but , for better or for worse , they had a lasting impact on the Middle East . |
| 25 | Joseph saw that although he was given evil he was able to turn it into goodness . |
| 26 | She was able to do plenty of research for Victoria Wood 's All-Day Breakfast after having her son Henry last May . |
| 27 | None of the prosecution witnesses was able to identify him in court , and his conviction was based on contradictory evidence , mainly statements extracted by torture from his fellow defendants . |
| 28 | ‘ I was able to get plenty of turn on those . |
| 29 | Because it was deemed to have been lost in antiquity , the finder was allowed to keep it , although happily the British Museum was able to buy it at auction . |
| 30 | She had no idea whether she was early or late in doing so , and was inclined to chastise herself for self-indulgence . |