Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv prt] [to-vb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | if you were off to do something and being mucked around for the day , in n it ? |
| 2 | We could settle down to real life ; they were out to get us , and we were out to stop them . |
| 3 | After their six one thrashing by Southend at the weekend and seven straight away defeats , Oxford were out to proove something . |
| 4 | They were out to destroy me , I was sure . |
| 5 | With the Allies advancing on the Eastern and Western fronts , many high-ranking Germans were out to save their own necks . |
| 6 | I thought they were out to get me to be honest with you . |
| 7 | I thought they were out to get me as a punishment . |
| 8 | They were out to get me from the start . |
| 9 | We could settle down to real life ; they were out to get us , and we were out to stop them . |
| 10 | Milk advert based on the premise that hostile drinking straws were out to steal your milk . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , he thought Theo unduly alarmist in warning him that women like her were out to fleece him . |
| 12 | ‘ The little girl in the film Poltergeist had her audience sitting on the edge of their seats when she revealed to her family that the strange creatures from the TV were back to haunt them all . |
| 13 | She slipped quietly out of the hotel , grateful that none of the other cast members were around to witness her departure , and made her way to the car park . |
| 14 | He got out of bed and walked across to Jackie as if he were about to say something . |
| 15 | Sarah seemed as if she were about to say something else , then thought better of it . |
| 16 | I thought you would g , oh I thought you were about to say I 've decided I 'm not coming . |
| 17 | Little did he know that the experienced dealers were about to teach him a lesson . |
| 18 | And that 's how Millie saw them when she entered the kitchen again , carrying the plate of chitterlings : the two people she cared for most , and who were about to lose her , laughing their heads off . |
| 19 | ‘ If I imagined you were about to repeat your foolishness of the other day I would insist that you came back to Paris now . |
| 20 | These 2 badgers were rescued from baiters who were about to let their dogs kill the animals . |
| 21 | Love the ultimate four letter word and were about to use it all over your television screen . |
| 22 | Those whom Balfour had described as ‘ the existing non-Jewish communities of Palestine ’ were about to undergo their first catastrophe . |
| 23 | Our old mates THE ORB popped round to Vibes central control the other day for tea and spacecakes and a quick intergalactic natter , and somehow they just happened to leave a whole box of ORB window stickers in the VIBES record cupboard — and would you believe it just as they were about to leave we could n't find the key ? |
| 24 | Now we have plants in India , Brazil erm we now have one in China , we were about to open one in Russia but it burned down . |
| 25 | What Claudia had in mind was some colouring of the evidence so that the district officer , Miles Turnbull , a harassed , overworked but popular man , who was dead — bien entendu — could be seen to have acted rashly in asking his askaris to point a gun at Tepilit , which Tepilit naturally interpreted as meaning they were about to shoot him . |
| 26 | Just when you thought they were about to finish they would burst off again . |
| 27 | We were about to issue one , with a buy recommendation , on Garth Enterprises . |
| 28 | One Sunday evening I went into the vestry to speak to a number of my girls who were about to take their first communion . |
| 29 | These nations were about to turn their back on an era of smoke-stacked factories , heavy machinery and blue-collar work , and embrace a new world of services , with its professions , white-collar employees and new office developments . |
| 30 | The crew of the boat on which he was travelling attacked and were about to kill him when he asked for a last favour — to play a tune . |