Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [adv] [conj] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of Ken 's aunts had come up in the world and arrived at the cemetery wearing a fur coat which was donned purely and simply to impress the other members of the family . |
| 2 | Throughout the 1340s and 1350s the king played on the commons ' fear of a French invasion of England : the threat that the French might ‘ destroy the English tongue and occupy the realm of England ’ was used more than once to persuade the commons to grant money for the war , and the discovery at the sack of Caen of a French plan for the invasion of England in 1339 was a gift to royal propaganda . |
| 3 | Three years after the death of the third baronet he was sworn well and truly to execute and perform the will of Sir William . |
| 4 | Parental control , relating to restrictions and rules for behaviour , was judged to be low when supervision was so negligent that the child was left more or less to do as she pleased . |
| 5 | As she hitched up the fox fur draped about her neck , she was tempted now and then to give them a regal wave but decided that to sit back in dignified hauteur was more fitting to her role . |