Example sentences of "was [adv] [verb] [to-vb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , the method was successfully used to clone a PCR-fragment of the dissimilatory nitrite reductase gene of Azospirillum brasilense Sp7 ( 7 ) . |
| 2 | The NCOAP began by pressing a universalist demand but was eventually forced to accept a compromise which , although in line with working-class notions of respectability , did not reflect the absolute material wants of the many . |
| 3 | In the late Middle Ages , symbolism was widely used to express a feeling of belonging to a people ; likewise institutions , such as monarchy , played an important part in creating a sense of national identity ; while the writing of history was deliberately fostered to encourage a feeling which the single word ‘ roots ’ will convey to a twentieth-century reader . |
| 4 | Donna McKemsley was so determined to become a pilot that while her friends were playing with dolls she was drawing and memorizing cockpit instrument panels . |
| 5 | ‘ I was all set to do a solo record for Shrapnel , but a couple of months before I was due to do it , Mike Varney introduced me to Jason , who was only 16 at the time . |
| 6 | Andy says he was all set to get a place in the final until he was shunted on the second-last lap . |
| 7 | He was only going to see a man whose address I gave him — a creditor , I believe . ’ |
| 8 | In fact , I was only going to stay a couple of years and move on , but … but I met you and I knew right from the beginning what was going to happen to me ; and it 's grown over these months during our supposedly accidental meetings here . |
| 9 | Whereas in Northamptonshire the tutor-organiser saw himself as a professional liaising with other professionals in areas where voluntary participation was barely appropriate , his colleague in Essex was apparently expected to spend a lot of time in routine organising work which voluntary members could readily take over when she eventually resigned . |
| 10 | Sandwich was better situated to meet a threat from Scandinavia ; Wight , where Harold 's ships awaited William the Conqueror long and unsuccessfully in the summer of 1066 , implies a connection with the south or west , and perhaps particularly Normandy . |
| 11 | The plan was that they would meet again in Bordeaux , where Suffolk was soon to go to commandeer a freighter for his scientific booty and machine tools . |
| 12 | When Hitler took over the rump of Czechoslovakia in March 1939 , Chamberlain was finally persuaded to adopt a stance of resistance to further German expansion , and to open negotiations for a Russian alliance . |
| 13 | Then , even while she was desperately trying to remember a quarter of the questions she was supposed to ask him , ‘ No , ’ he replied succinctly , ‘ it would not . ’ |
| 14 | Ruth had the feeling that he was desperately trying to inject a bit of life into the party and she felt guilty that she , for one , had so far been very dull company . |
| 15 | He was desperately trying to make a connection . |
| 16 | Joe was in good form , though the time for his retirement was drawing near , and he was already beginning to feel a bit lost and abandoned by people who once fawned on him . |
| 17 | I know now he was just trying to make a sale and did n't have my size in stock , but since he was wearing a fleecy top and tracksuit trousers I believed him , and bought these huge leather edifices that a young married couple could quite comfortably live in and bring up a family . |
| 18 | ‘ I was just trying to get a couple of thoughts together , ’ she said . |
| 19 | ‘ He said he was just asked to do a job — and it 's working . ’ |
| 20 | I thought he was just going to do a couple of acoustic numbers . |
| 21 | I was just going to make a cup of tea , and now the lecky 's gone . ’ |
| 22 | The first was a pang of sorrowing sympathy with the bereaved and weeping parents ; but this was quickly succeeded by a thrill of holy joy that the lovely flower , which was just permitted to take a glimpse of earth , was so soon removed from all earthly contamination ! |
| 23 | THE hellraising son of actor Ryan O'Neal was yesterday sentenced to spend a year in a tough drug and alcohol clinic . |
| 24 | One was once seen to use a stone to kill a monitor lizard , but this was probably a mistake ! |
| 25 | Mr Chettle , who lives in Saltburn and who has led workshops and lectured in Amsterdam , recalled how Cleveland Arts was once asked to paint a mural for a hospital . |
| 26 | Hebephrenia was once used to describe a form , typically beginning in adolescence , in which the person complains of auditory hallucinations , talks in an incomprehensible way , and shows totally inappropriate emotional reactions to other people . |
| 27 | She was deliberately trying to pick a fight with him because she was terrified he 'd realise how she really felt about him . |
| 28 | It was funded jointly by the DES and LEAs and its membership was deliberately designed to achieve a majority of teachers . |
| 29 | In the late Middle Ages , symbolism was widely used to express a feeling of belonging to a people ; likewise institutions , such as monarchy , played an important part in creating a sense of national identity ; while the writing of history was deliberately fostered to encourage a feeling which the single word ‘ roots ’ will convey to a twentieth-century reader . |
| 30 | Here , there was a boy there who was n't 'alf a saucebox , he was always trying to get a look at me legs and drawers — ’ |