Example sentences of "[vb past] was [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On April 15 a group of doctors threatened to strike against the curfew , which they alleged was preventing them from attending patients . |
| 2 | The way to Lavondyss was a short climb away , and all she needed was to resign herself to the journey , to abandon Scathach . |
| 3 | Whenever my mother and I had visited her from Štanjel , the first thing Aunt Ema always did was to call me into the larder , which was dark and cool , and give me a large spoonful of the most delicious cream from which she used to make butter , saying in the Mavhinje dialect : ‘ Take this , beautiful , because I know that you do n't like cream in your coffee . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ The most foolish thing I ever did was take her to the Foundling . |
| 5 | That is to say you bought a word processor , and all it did was allow you to type words onto the screen — that and some formatting . |
| 6 | Siberia for me , but all they did was put me on a plane heading for Berlin . |
| 7 | But the mistake that Holberg made was to allow himself to be held in thrall by the world of appearances . |
| 8 | He practically had me signed up for the European Monetary System when all I wanted was to touch him for a gold moidore . |
| 9 | Their names were Donald , Ian and Hugo , and they told us that they were extremely grateful for all the food but that the last thing they wanted was to put us in any danger : they begged us not to come again because there would almost certainly be someone in the village who would denounce us to the Germans or the Fascists . |
| 10 | I realized that all I wanted was to stop him from writing on his own , and that this was possibly his own motive for working with me in Salamanca - to keep my true poetic self silent , subservient to his . |
| 11 | The last thing he wanted was to turn himself into a do-gooder , but he realized very quickly that most of the volunteers were genuinely and sincerely opening their hearts and homes . |
| 12 | The whisky in him fought with any consideration he might have had for her ; all he wanted was to get her into bed . |
| 13 | What I really wanted was to bash him to smithereens . |