Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] they to " in BNC.
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| 1 | You were cheering them to . ’ |
| 2 | Copies were to be sent to all sheriffs , who were to publish them to the people ; others were to be kept in all cathedral churches and read twice a year . |
| 3 | Their parents were sending them to the Wimbledon Islamic Day Independent Boys ' School because they wanted them to grow up English . |
| 4 | They were speaking words she could not grasp but now they were speaking them to her rather than to each other and their tone was sympathetic , cajoling . |
| 5 | You were lending them to this one here . |
| 6 | ‘ Never once , during our association , did they guess that I was using them to further my revenge against the Wolfkings . |
| 7 | She told Cathy she would pass on the eggs but would like croissants and coffee , and presently I was bringing them to her as she sat with eyes demurely downwards , studiously ignoring my existence . |
| 8 | Eventually she noticed the changing note of the engine as they began to descend , and soon Marc was bringing them to a more sedate pace as he nursed the car over the drawbridge . |
| 9 | The best man was driving them to the airport for their flight to Greece , and Ellie made sure she was right in the middle of the crowd as they all surged down the front path to wish them bon voyage . |
| 10 | It was a crisp Saturday morning in February , and the young man had picked her up from her flat and was driving them to a motor-racing track in the heart of Surrey . |
| 11 | He was selling Gary Druer from Travel Enterprise rooms at rock-bottom rates , and Gary was retailing them to the client for top whack , trading on our reputation . |
| 12 | His aim was to reconvert them to a Unitarian Christianity devoid of superstition . |
| 13 | By May 1987 McFarlane was describing them to the Baltimore Sun as ‘ incompetent Coca-Cola bottlers and clerks ’ . |
| 14 | and the doctors was selling them to rich Romanians and things like that so there 's such a lot of corruption in the country . |
| 15 | The worst thing the old politburocracy did to the Czechs and Slovaks was to require them to ‘ live lies ’ because the truth did n't fit the pseudo-history which was supposed to legitimize Brezhnev 's satraps . |
| 16 | All of them were drawn together on the basis of a conviction similar to our own that God was calling them to something new . |
| 17 | ‘ He was feeding them to the tigers ! ! ’ |
| 18 | But still the horses would n't budge : they were fixed as if something was holding them to the road . |
| 19 | He was aping them to some extent , but what was different was that touching quality . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Me wages are in there and I was taking them to me ma . |
| 21 | Magellan captured a number of these immense people — one pair by the crud trick of showing them leg-irons and insisting that the proper way to carry them was to allow them to be locked around their ankles . |
| 22 | He was showing them to me . ’ |
| 23 | Soon he was showing them to the leading head-hunters in employment agencies . |
| 24 | His main priority now was to get them to safety . |
| 25 | It was not so much meanness that restrained her , as a profound mistrust of her own organizations : and also she felt obscurely , that to invite people into her own room was to condemn them to boredom and unease . |
| 26 | The rest were employed at present between Stavros and Episkopi , loading and transporting the casks to the warehouses to await the arrival of the all-important galley which was to take them to Venice . |
| 27 | She was so excited to be returning that she was up before dawn and ready for the journey south long before the arrival of the taxi that was to take them to Berwick for the train to King 's Cross . |
| 28 | Originally , the plan was to return them to their last known home , on Pitchfork Ranch near the little town of Meeteetsee , Wyoming . |
| 29 | The key to impressing Mum and Auntie Jean , and the best way to keep their tongues off the risible subject of my loin-cloth , which inevitably had them quaking with laughter , was to introduce them to the actors afterwards , telling them which sit-coms and police programmes they 'd seen them in . |
| 30 | Gaitskell became excited at the prospect and instructed me with great firmness that as soon as I had received the ‘ discovered ’ documents I was to show them to no one but to come straight to him , so that he should be the first person to know who the culprit was or what information was available that would lead to the culprit 's identity . |