Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [verb] [to-vb] the " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Sergeant Morris and I were trying to stop the bleeding when you came . ’
2 IN A desperate attempt to cheer ourselves up at one particularly gloomy moment last week , my Somerset neighbour William Rees-Mogg and I were trying to construct the scenario of what might happen if Labour scraped into power .
3 On condition that we both covered our heads , Olivia and I were invited to watch the proceedings from the rear of the crowd .
4 ‘ If I were asked to name the most important date in the history of the human race , I would answer without hesitation August 6 1945 .
5 Indeed , if I were forced to try the impossible , to imagine what it is like to be a bat , I would guess that echolocating , for them , might be rather like seeing for us .
6 If I were going to spend the time and effort to write a book , I wanted it to get to as many people as possible .
7 If I were to try to explain the little I understood about alchemy it would run through my fingers like water .
8 From Madras my wife and I were taken to see the Shore Temples at Mahabalipuram and beside this is ( or was ) a very large boulder resting on the hillside .
9 When I went to Beverley on Easter Sunday 1987 I was invited to join the choristers on the roof .
10 Our Borders MP was David Steel ( who had beaten Robin McEwen at the by-election which won him the seat ) and as a member of his local Liberal party , I was invited to join the Scottish Liberal Party 's Council .
11 In the middle of these difficulties I was invited to visit the Chicago headquarters of Binks Manufacturing ( Binks Bullows 's parent company ) to negotiate selling the machine to the US .
12 It was as a result of this withdrawal that I was invited to write the paper ( Currie , 1979 ) .
13 Seeing my interest was now aroused , I was invited to try the unit myself on a day 's diving .
14 I was tempted to use the quay , but did n't .
15 Years later , when I heard that Inez had left her husband and that the police were investigating her disappearance , I was tempted to carry the matter a little further .
16 In attempting to answer this question , I was tempted to follow the Economist and define services as : ‘ anything sold in trade that could not be dropped on your foot ’ .
17 I 'd had some sailing instruction before on Lake Bala , in a larger Wayfarer which has room for two people and an instructor , but I found that I was tending to leave the thinking to my partner and the instructor , and just doing what I was told without knowing why .
18 So I was delegated to broach the subject with Paul Coleman .
19 Richards , 40 , said : ‘ I was flattered to receive the offer , but morally I could not accept .
20 There was the occasion I was sent to report the speech day at West Bank School , a private school , in Bideford .
21 There was a longer wait when I was sent to interview the Rolling Stones .
22 And then I was sent to retrieve the balls from the headmaster 's garden .
23 I was hoping to see the Seychelles black parrot , which has never been recorded from any island other than Praslin .
24 I was hoping to get the chance to see the new Beethoven opera .
25 With a sigh he admitted , ‘ I was hoping to find the ring quickly . ’
26 I was hoping to film the kits growing up and discovering the world around them , but before they were old enough to fend for themselves , a fisherman trapped and killed the mother .
27 " I was wanting to see the kids , " he said when Mr Blakey came closer .
28 ‘ On clay courts I was trained to make the other guy play tennis all day .
29 I was loathe to leave the house .
30 Once a huge golden eagle circled above a wreck and I intercepted a couple hiking to call at a Crofter 's cottage for assistance because I was loathe to leave the area to the eagle .
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