Example sentences of "[vb past] [was/were] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The strategy adopted was to begin with the best analysed corpus available when we started work ( Alvar Ellegard 's 128,000 word analysed subset of the Brown Corpus of American English ) , convert it into a format that could be used in practice , and improve and extend it in various ways . |
| 2 | It was like coming home and the first thing she did was to walk to the pictures that hung on the wall and look at them all over again . |
| 3 | The only legal right she had was to complain about the beatings when she could stand them no more . |
| 4 | The only solution I had was to pay for the guy , bring the piece into my own workshop and re-do the top completely . |
| 5 | What she really wanted was to go on the pill , but as her doctor was a close family friend , she could n't face asking him . |
| 6 | I now knew the last thing in the whole world I wanted was to go into the mountains again with FAKINTIL . |
| 7 | What she wanted was to get into the laboratory where Piphros had been life-commenced . |