Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [to-vb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His reply was to give her a sharp pull forward and then a shove in the back , which knocked her to her knees . |
| 2 | Right , correction , one lady does n't , but those who do go back to the Property Committee and I would say that erm if this were to happen , and the County Council were to make it a permanent site in that particular position , we could lay a charge of gross negligence , or even mis-appropriation of assets . |
| 3 | The impact of this work was to bring him the support of the social democrats and thus to extend the appeal of his Bonapartist message . |
| 4 | The problem for British producers seeking to emulate Korda 's achievement was to define what an international British film might be . |
| 5 | The object was to give them a sense of purpose and once they were harnessed to that proposition , they policed themselves , so to speak . |
| 6 | Hitherto , Blackpool 's aim had been to crush-load its trams to bursting-point , now the object was to give them a comfortable ride for their money . |
| 7 | Carrie was taken by surprise at his question and her first instinct was to give him a sharp reply , but she nodded instead , catching the look of concern in Don 's deep brown eyes . |
| 8 | Konrad Adenauer had already suggested that West Germany should be allowed the means to defend itself , and that the surest way of winning the population over to a massive commitment to democracy was to give it a stake in the responsibility of defending Western Europe . |
| 9 | The prescription was to offer them no reason for distinguishing between employers who , as custodians for the State , managed those centre-pieces of Socialist attainment , the nationalised industries ; and those who managed privately owned industries . |
| 10 | If she wanted Lori gone then the quickest way was to give her the coffee she 'd asked for . |
| 11 | His goal was to make himself a fortune . |
| 12 | James was foiled mainly by the determination of the European powers , including the Warrior Pope Julius II , to fight one another instead , and certainly not by any substantial doubt on the part of his subjects that a king from Scotland was overreaching himself ; indeed , his popularity was to bring him an enormous Scottish army for the campaign against the English in 1513 which ended in the disaster of Flodden . |
| 13 | This problem was to make it the most accident-prone routine in Tiller history . |
| 14 | The idea was to teach us the beauty of the English language . |
| 15 | The idea was to give everybody a reasonable chance of answering some questions , not merely by general railway knowledge , but by dint of having supported Society events . |
| 16 | The idea was to show what a tough life the Royals have . |
| 17 | The progress of this story was to show me the essential solitariness of other people , people whom I had not thought of as being solitary before . |
| 18 | ‘ The decision was to give them a lot of freedom , letting them take the pictures they liked so long as their interpretations were true to the general concept . |
| 19 | ‘ Very well , ’ she said after a moment 's thought , deciding that the only solution was to tell him the truth after all . |