Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [to-vb] [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a set of problems that were problems to no-one but Germany , and the solutions were calculated to satisfy no-one but Germany . |
| 2 | It already had a well-developed product on the market , whilst its rivals were struggling to get one onto the drawing board . |
| 3 | All of us were working on no salary , just expenses , but we found nice facilities on 58th Street and were taught to charge everything . |
| 4 | Many unemployed people found the fact that they were expected to do nothing when unemployed or risk losing benefit ‘ extremely difficult ’ . |
| 5 | Acceptance of the separate stages of rehearsal , drafting , revision , editing and publishing as normal practice for writers encourages children with special needs to express their ideas in writing more confidently than was possible when children were expected to get everything right at the first attempt . |
| 6 | They were dying to see something go wrong , you know , they were good old sorts , some of them were odd ones , but a good lot . |
| 7 | Most items in these suites were designed to contrast one with another by varied time signatures , tempi and phrasing so that they built up to a climax which , in the early days , signalled the entrance of the king or the most important participant . |
| 8 | Er we showed him one or two examples of similar sorts of presentations that we 'd had from other railway and outside organizations , er explained what we 'd done in the past , said that we were looking to get something more up-market and more erm professional , which was why we were looking to er er seek er quotes from er g graphics designers , linked in with printers . |
| 9 | Examples of the latter — attaching new connotations — would be the way musical elements of the bourgeois march were made to connote something different in nineteenth century labour anthems ; or the way the supposedly liberated individualist eclecticism of counter cultural 1960s rock — ‘ liberated ’ in the Marcusian sense — was , in a process of recuperation , re-articulated to the long tradition of bourgeois individual bohemianism . |
| 10 | Random numbers were used to identify one in six of each type of practice . |
| 11 | We stripped and sat on metal stools ; we were told to take everything out of our pockets and wait until our names were called from the room next door . |
| 12 | ‘ We wrote that song two years ago , because we knew we were going to do something within two years and now it 's happening . |
| 13 | ‘ We wrote that song two years ago , because we knew we were going to do something within two years and now it 's happening . |
| 14 | ‘ We 're unbeaten in eight games but we have n't been able to win them and the players were saying beforehand that we were going to give someone a good hiding . |
| 15 | ‘ I think you were going to say something beginning with But . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ You know , I was rather afraid you were going to say something like that . ’ |
| 17 | Sorry you were going to say something . |
| 18 | If I if you 've got people in prison and then you had to go visiting you , you could get relief after , after the first twenty five pounds , so if the expenses were going to see somebody in prison were more than twenty five pounds I could get relief with them |
| 19 | The fact that his father behaved towards him for most of the time with mild , if somewhat unthinking kindness , did not rule out this possibility which is present at some time or other in most children 's minds : after all , if you were going to kill someone you would naturally go on being kind to them for the time being , giving them money for sweets and generally keeping up appearances . |
| 20 | Anthony was dead and her brothers were going to blow someone up . |
| 21 | Aunt Louise was a relation , and if she were going to drive anyone dotty should it be the trusting stranger with whom Celia had left her ‘ for three months only ’ ? ) |
| 22 | We were going to buy something else but you could n't do it so I think this is going to be very nice . |
| 23 | Really , I do n't think anybody in the crowd of just over eleven thousand thought United were going to pull anything out of that game . |
| 24 | He asked what kind of a car Hank had and was very encouraging when Hank told him that he and his friend Ian were going to rebuild one . |
| 25 | You were going to make one |
| 26 | ‘ She thought you were going to change everything . ’ |
| 27 | You were going to contact someone in ADSW ( I regret I forget the name ) with regard to the possibility of setting up some form of Communications Group representing all Departments in Scotland that would meet perhaps every quarter or half year . |
| 28 | When he got too much praise in training , Probyn said : ‘ I knew they were going to try someone else . ’ |
| 29 | I thought I thought you were going to get one on your desk , one like Jed 's that hums all the time . |
| 30 | Well I do n't know whether were going to get one now , cos I have n't really got a lot of time . |