Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pron] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was aware of nothing else but his compelling , mesmeric eyes , which were rooting her to the spot , setting a torch to her , the shooting flames searing her insides . |
| 2 | The man who ushered in a golden age of middle-distance running , Brendan Foster , was at the peak of his powers and the two men who were to carry it to the greatest heights , Steve Ovett and Sebastian Coe , were just beginning to emerge . |
| 3 | If they were to report it to the company the whole crew could lose their jobs . ’ |
| 4 | Maggie was taking a plane to London that night and Sheila and Mona were driving her to the airport . |
| 5 | But he might not always meet her calling or her waiting , for men , too , were bidding him to the sound of axe and plough and sword . ’ |
| 6 | We were escorting him to the door when there was a loud explosion at the side of the house . |
| 7 | Copies were to be sent to all sheriffs , who were to publish them to the people ; others were to be kept in all cathedral churches and read twice a year . |
| 8 | Their parents were sending them to the Wimbledon Islamic Day Independent Boys ' School because they wanted them to grow up English . |
| 9 | Now , after a month of nervously transferring it from place to place as the situation worsened , the French government were giving it to the British . |
| 10 | ‘ If they were taking him to the police station , why did they walk three miles . |
| 11 | ‘ I thought you were taking me to the police station . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I believe that someone knew you had the sack with you and that you were taking it to the outlaws . ’ |
| 13 | Employing one of those supremely disingenuous somersaults of logic that only long training in double-speak and the official brand of British arrogance can confer , Mr Howard told a Westminster audience of backbenchers that ‘ If the Commission were to take us to the European Court I can think of few things more calculated to bring the Commission into disrepute ’ |
| 14 | Yet now he was praising her to the skies . |
| 15 | Mind you , she was starving herself to the point of endangering her life and had to be hospitalized , but er oh no , her hormon her hormon well her hormonal changes went into reverse , they absolutely did . |
| 16 | The best man was driving them to the airport for their flight to Greece , and Ellie made sure she was right in the middle of the crowd as they all surged down the front path to wish them bon voyage . |
| 17 | He was selling Gary Druer from Travel Enterprise rooms at rock-bottom rates , and Gary was retailing them to the client for top whack , trading on our reputation . |
| 18 | He was leading her to the edge of the dance-floor . |
| 19 | Eisenhower , who was in the midst of his re-election campaign and was presenting himself to the American electorate as ‘ a man of peace ’ , failed to make clear to his British and French colleagues in the Atlantic Alliance the depth of his reluctance to countenance the use of force over an issue that was only important and not vital to US interests . |
| 20 | By May 1987 McFarlane was describing them to the Baltimore Sun as ‘ incompetent Coca-Cola bottlers and clerks ’ . |
| 21 | The way to Lavondyss was a short climb away , and all she needed was to resign herself to the journey , to abandon Scathach . |
| 22 | You said your Mum was calling you to the kitchen ! |
| 23 | ‘ He was feeding them to the tigers ! ! ’ |
| 24 | His first thought was to do something to the Volkswagen Passat . |
| 25 | But still the horses would n't budge : they were fixed as if something was holding them to the road . |
| 26 | To be seriously concerned with this field was to expose oneself to the possibility of ridicule when it turned out that one had been deceived by a clever confidence trickster ; at best it led to controversy , to results which were suggestive rather than conclusive , and away from those straightforward and answerable questions which since Galileo 's time had been the essence of scientific research . |
| 27 | It was odd , but Greg noticed Bill Clough 's eyes following them sharply : he was saying nothing to the purpose so there was no reason why he should n't watch them , but Greg , following his lead , did wonder whether Hilary 's mutterings were not of a rather different kind from Desmond 's . |
| 28 | ‘ The most foolish thing I ever did was take her to the Foundling . |
| 29 | ‘ Ma must have taken to cooking up bits of food in her bedroom , ’ Algy said when Lady Grubb was doing something to the plants and she and Guy were alone with father in his study . |
| 30 | He was taking himself to the limit and then pushing on from there . |