Example sentences of "[conj] [was/were] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He drove through the backstreets , and the quieter residential boulevards , where people had either ignored the date and retired to sleep , or were celebrating it in the privacy of their homes . |
| 2 | Towards the end of his playing career when he was with Hibs and contemplating a move to the Orlando Lions , a short lived soccer team in Florida , Rough 's business interests not only brought him appalling bad luck but imposed a series of financial set-backs that were to affect him in the years to come . |
| 3 | During these years Mackmurdo absorbed the main aesthetic and moral influences that were to guide him through his life , not so much from immediate masters as from the writings of John Ruskin , Herbert Spencer [ qq.v. ] , and Auguste Comte . |
| 4 | And luck , a commodity the spirited teenager had never been short of , played a crucial part in the events that were to set her on the path to millions . |
| 5 | LUCKY BREAK : A young Joe shows the style that was to turn him into the world champ |
| 6 | She glanced up with dread and peered into the sea of faces that was watching her with curiosity . |
| 7 | Haines died 16 June 1860 , at Bombay harbour on a ship that was to take him to England , one week after his release from prison . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | At the beginning of September , 1715 , the mission left St. Petersburg on an incredible journey that was to take it from the shore of the Baltic Sea in the west , almost to the Pacific Ocean in the east , crossing the full width of European Russia , much of Siberia , Mongolia 's Gobi Desert and deep into China . |
| 10 | The courage of Peter er after his denial is something that was given him by the Holy Spirit . |
| 11 | It was a charge that was to dog us through both the 1983 and 1987 general elections , and which did us more damage than any other health issue . |
| 12 | As a result of her prosperity , uncertain though it often appeared , Catalonia began to appear as the model and exemplar of mercantile and industrial civilization , a role that was to bring her into sharp conflict with traditional values and interests . |
| 13 | The senator spoke with a sudden and incredible venom , and I realised it was only that angry force that was keeping him from weeping for his two children . |
| 14 | He did n't turn his head to identify the car that was trailing it in case he was recognized . |
| 15 | The next landing stage , this one at a tree-covered spur projecting from the opposite shore of the lake , bears the sign " Tellsplatte " ; nearby is a memorial chapel to the folk hero who is reputed to have leapt ashore at this spot escaping from an Austrian-manned boat that was carrying him to prison . |
| 16 | There too a twenty year old who has managed to kick a habit that was leading him down a dangerous path . |
| 17 | The worst of it was that his headaches made him so angry ; it was a symptom of the poison that was killing him by degrees . |
| 18 | It was this nagging feeling that was driving me to Kano and had increased my daily average to 19.6 miles . |
| 19 | I 'm not saying I 'd have been good for him or him for me , but it did provide a link in a chain that was to tie me to glory in the Open . |
| 20 | In their view the Commission were giving Article 100A an unduly wide construction and were using it for proposals which should properly have been based on some alternative Article of the EEC Treaty , such as Article 100 or Article 235 , which required unanimity in the Council . |
| 21 | They felt that a good deal of the South Western Board 's troubles were brought on by excessive expenditure and inadequate tariffs , and Steward found little sympathy from the other Boards , since some of them had equally serious system extension , reinforcement and standardisation problems , and were financing them by adequate tariffs . |
| 22 | She now suspected that they had known long before and were breaking it to her gradually . |
| 23 | They had taken the area from the rebels and were defending it on the orders of General Kopyion . |
| 24 | At the front , though , they had taken them through the gate and were playing them on the windows of Hilda Machin 's sitting-room . |
| 25 | Julia knew that it could not be real because it brought with it even more horrible visions , in one of which Comfort and Anthony had her pinned to the ground and were hitting her with garden rakes with specially sharpened tines . |
| 26 | Up to 30 armed men had commandeered a bus and were driving it towards Zanderij airport near the Surinamese capital , Paramaribo , according to Mr Haakmat . |
| 27 | A couple of them had produced flaming torches from nowhere and were brandishing them with all the zeal of a party of drunken Transylvanian peasants storming Castle Frankenstein during an electrical storm . |
| 28 | Nour had taken me by the shoulders and was pushing me towards the pool . |
| 29 | Steve looked across at Ruth who had gone deathly pale and was watching him with her mouth gaping open . |
| 30 | Luke had stood up too now and was watching her with glittering eyes , either unaware of or unperturbed by the disarray of his own garments . |