Example sentences of "[verb] was [verb] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The way to Lavondyss was a short climb away , and all she needed was to resign herself to the journey , to abandon Scathach . |
| 2 | The best she could manage was to imagine him to be a person who had known Ewan well . |
| 3 | ‘ The most foolish thing I ever did was take her to the Foundling . |
| 4 | That is to say you bought a word processor , and all it did was allow you to type words onto the screen — that and some formatting . |
| 5 | But the mistake that Holberg made was to allow himself to be held in thrall by the world of appearances . |
| 6 | What I really wanted was to bash him to smithereens . |