Example sentences of "[adj] was [verb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 This was to allow it to be produced by 7th December and to be able to discuss any changes needed in any individual contributions .
2 But in a d within the next day or so , perhaps over the weekend , if you can make your notes about what this was Put it in your own words , what was happening here .
3 That five was to haunt him for many months afterwards .
4 Something too fierce was attacking her from the inside .
5 Descartes was to enjoy a freedom to publish in Holland that was denied him in France .
6 She decided there was only one cure , and that was to do it for real .
7 that was taught me by my grandmother , Annie Scanlon .
8 Her lungs heaving , she fell against a tree , then slowly slid down the trunk to sit at its foot , her arms wrapped tight round her updrawn knees in an effort to hold in the pain and shock that was robbing her of coherent thought .
9 Whoever it was that was menacing her with letters ( a letter , she corrected herself , but feeling certain there would be more ) , whoever it was that had anything to do with her mother 's death , that person , or those persons , would belong to her father 's age group .
10 She would lose Patrick soon , she suddenly thought — all that was keeping him with her now was because she kept a very tight control of the purse strings : he had no money of his own .
11 When the roaring giant of a tube train came , the fag sucker suddenly withdrew his double-buckled shoes from the concrete and became a little scuttling pixie to compete with all the other scuttling pixies , but managed a further quick change to a hunched-up half-shut-marble-eyed frowny scowling monkey as he took his tense unrest out on the floor of the tube train that was carrying him to his necessary employment .
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