Example sentences of "[conj] [was/were] [verb] [to-vb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His child-like enjoyment of the new equipment and gadgetry he came to be able to afford in later life gave warmly affectionate amusement to his friends especially when they found him camping in his own front garden in the latest tent and sleeping bag , or were asked to take him , when he was stone-blind from glaucoma , to the locations of his favourite plants to photograph them with an auto-focus camera . |
| 2 | Police determination to control the volume and the effect of picketing made movement around the country and demonstrations at collieries extremely difficult ; ‘ much secondary picketing was prevented from taking place , effectively or at all , by police action rather than the intervention of the civil courts , and it is this factor that is at the heart of complaints that the police broke the strike , or were used to break it ’ ( Wallington , 1985 : 148 ) . |
| 3 | For about half a minute he did not reply and I thought that he either did not understand English or was trying to humiliate me . |
| 4 | It was as if time had lost all meaning , as if even that were conspiring to hasten him to this place where he would spend the rest of his life . |
| 5 | It would have been too much to hope for one capable of answering any of the questions that were beginning to raise their heads in her sleep-muffled brain . |
| 6 | One by one , the arguments that were said to justify it are being abandoned . |
| 7 | Instead , the transformation of the hospital service awaited the special arrangements that were made to co-ordinate their activities with those of the voluntary hospitals during the Second World War . |
| 8 | However , after discharge from hospital he remained isolated despite efforts that were made to encourage him to develop social contacts through joining community clubs . |
| 9 | Spain 's dominant classes were therefore permitted the time and opportunity for marshalling their powerful opposition to the very measures that were intended to weaken them . |
| 10 | it it came to be that it was the older men usually that were asked to do it I mean the people I suppose maybe felt it was more suitable to have older folk coming in to their houses . |
| 11 | Every time she put her nose out of the door , there he seemed to be , and if he was n't outside he was inside , making provocative remarks that were guaranteed to drive her into a fury . |
| 12 | They wanted opportunities to participate in the decisions that were going to affect their country 's future . |
| 13 | The other exciting thing was the leeches er because the monsoon had n't finished there were lots of leeches around , and I 'd imagined these huge things that were going to suck me to death , but they 're actually little , like , just very very tiny little worms , about erm an inch long and very thin and what they do is they sit on leaves and things and as you walk by they get flicked on to your boots or your socks and then they wiggle their way in and they , you ca n't feel them there , but what they do is they suck your blood until they explode |
| 14 | There was two farmers that were going to meet us and her farmer was there , and I was chatting , and he was , you know , very pleasant , and ’ Who are you going to work for then ? ’ , and I said ’ Mr So and so ’ . |
| 15 | pointed out how tag questions there 's only certain structures you can put them in , that were going to direct it rather than proper questions say someone who 's asking all proper questions , is he going to use as many tag questions anyway ? |
| 16 | Billingsley asked with a mocking punctiliousness that was intended to humiliate me , but the humiliation was my own fault for having challenged the policeman 's lie . |
| 17 | To his relief he found he was above the trees and looking down into a murkiness that was beginning to map itself below him into defined and recognizable shapes . |
| 18 | The next day they charged Barry Moxton with the murder of his wife Mary and there was a picture on the front pages of him being led away with a blanket over his head and another of a policeman coming out of his mother 's house with a plastic bag that was said to contain his bloodstained and half-burned clothing , and a day or so after that Uncle Titch turned up in South Wales with his horse and cart where he said he 'd gone after a merry-go-round and did n't know what all the fuss was about , did n't know about any murder , did n't read the papers and was generally believed , at least by the people on the estate , because it was typical of Uncle Titch , and by that time the Queerfella who was queerer than any of them knew had made a full confession and it was all over bar the shouting and the trial , when he pleaded guilty and was sent down for life and everyone said he should have been hanged and pretended it had never once crossed their minds that it was Uncle Titch that done it . |
| 19 | He realised with a flash of almost ludicrous detachment that the hand that was trying to grasp him was now fully formed , and was the one that he had cut the fingers off when slamming the steel door . |
| 20 | There were not the multitude of motorcars about in those days , as there are now , but that was one of the firms that was trying to make it , and has done it , like that . |
| 21 | In his mind the CIA had become an evil , many-tentacled monster that was trying to strangle his young nation by every means possible . |
| 22 | I mean , schools the only thing I was , I 'd been governor of a a school for thirty years that was used to depress me with the fact that we could n't get for our schools the things that we needed because to me and to all the people in Harlow who have children are concerned that we are being stopped so much money on education which is the most vital thing in our children 's lives ! |
| 23 | Oxydol won out , and the so-called soap opera that was used to sell it gave its name to a genre , massively reinforced by its wholesale adoption by television all over the world since the 1950s . |
| 24 | One heavily bejewelled hand stroked his long , white , unbraided beard , while the other held a silver riding crop — an affectation that was meant to symbolise his love of horses . |
| 25 | Far from being an enriching process in which students can more easily grasp the basics of science , they are left the poorer because their understanding is in fact limited , in the sense of being bounded , by the very standardisation that was meant to free them . |
| 26 | In the end , it was she who broke the silence that was threatening to overwhelm them . |
| 27 | With sheep farmers in Wales still unable to market their lambs , and with new ‘ hot spots ’ of contamination still being discovered in parts of the country , this was a crisis that was continuing to leave its mark well beyond the Ukraine . |
| 28 | Eric Cantona is in the squad less than a fortnight after suffering a hamstring injury that was expected to keep him out of action for two months . |
| 29 | There were two scheduled stops on my journey : the first was a company that was going to hold my bulkier items in storage ( a firm that my now ex-landlord had told me about which had some spare space in a lock-up in a basement car park ) ; the second was of course the Palace Hotel where I was going to drop off everything else . |
| 30 | Greatness trickled from the corpus of his image , his career now like a gutshot that was going to take its time before killing . |