Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [to-vb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | His two Cabinet portfolios , which would make him the most powerful member of the government after the Prime Minister , were expected to give him a key role in the formulation of the country 's overall foreign policy . |
| 2 | It 's almost as if they were looking to make themselves the most hated and hunted men on earth . ’ |
| 3 | It was such an important discovery that the Mayor and Corporation were persuaded to inspect it the following afternoon and the whole village turned out to wait for them . |
| 4 | I understand they were persuaded to give it a further year 's grace in the hope of improvements to its organisational structure . |
| 5 | Those two were going to give her the creeps if she really had to take them all the way to Titan . |
| 6 | They 'd relented , his Mum and Dad , and they were going to give him a parrot for Easter . |
| 7 | At Heathrow Wendy Hoyte was being met by her husband Les and they were going to give me a lift back into London . |
| 8 | ‘ For a moment then I thought you were going to give me a different name . |
| 9 | ‘ We 're unbeaten in eight games but we have n't been able to win them and the players were saying beforehand that we were going to give someone a good hiding . |
| 10 | And he thought they were going to buy him a parrot . |
| 11 | The Lions selectors have an impassioned Irish performance to thank for that — and , according to coach Gerry Murphy , a little divine inspiration : ‘ We were going to keep it a secret , ’ he quipped , ‘ but we spent last weekend in Lourdes ’ . |
| 12 | But then the lady came back on again — you know , the one who spoke to me first — and she said ‘ Thank you very much , ’ and she told me they were going to send me a prize of — wait for it — 5 . |
| 13 | Yes , I have at last , and the I 'm sure that they lied in their teeth , they they assured me they had written to me after my second letter in March , er in fact , and they said they were going to send me a photocopy of that , in fact er she wrote me a letter in June , so I do n't believe the other one existed , |
| 14 | Such a capture of French nationalism would probably have been impossible in Paris ; but , in Hanoi , circumstances were combining to make it a reality . |
| 15 | But surgeons were forced to call it a day because they could n't find the right tools for the job . |
| 16 | ‘ It was as if they were trying to give us a clue , deliberately toying with us . ’ |
| 17 | And erm and Miss asked why we were n't friends any more and we goes well she lied and you know , she splits up most people by doing that cos they were trying to tell us the truth and we would n't listen . |
| 18 | Thus the expansion of larger manufacturing firms was designed to give them the opportunity to expand output with protection from fluctuations in demand given by avoiding any excessive accumulation of fixed costs . |
| 19 | Clinton was expected to declare himself the winner at 4am British time , even before some polls on the west coast closed . |
| 20 | The club was expected to give him a run next week in one of two friendlies against non-League opposition , but last night coach Eddie May said : ‘ He is a good lad but is just a non-starter now . |
| 21 | Despite these minor domestic headaches , it was decided to give him a special birthday treat of a guided tour of the Chubb Factory to decide exactly how all those interesting little gadgets actually work and no doubt to take away a few tips as well . |
| 22 | It was decided to teach him the final lesson , which would also warn off other émigrés who thought that they were secure in the West and could say what they liked about Ceauşescu . |
| 23 | Piper had started using Red Indian names for its aircraft and when it inherited the ‘ poor man 's Dakota ’ from Stinson the double fin and rudder layout was replaced with a single one and it was decided to call it the Apache . |
| 24 | I think it was also about that time when it was decided to phase our the old term of Customs Waterguard for the uniformed branch , with Waterguard becoming a dirty word . |
| 25 | Well , the point was as I recollect it , er that my understanding as far as the County Council 's case was concerned , was that er the village was not inset for E Ten purposes , it was inset to recognize what the County perceived as the physical reality of this being a substantial built-up area which fulfilled no greenbelt functions . |
| 26 | The horse was made to foil her every move , leaping forward as she moved quickly and turning her away . |
| 27 | I recently had a liver transplant at Addenbrooke 's Hospital and still feel guilty that inevitably the decision was made to give me a liver rather than someone else whose life expectancy may have been marginally longer . |
| 28 | Afterwards , her eight-year-old brother was told to give her a cold bath . |
| 29 | Importantly for Nicholson , this quirk in the social order was all that was needed to give him the kick-start he required , and it also provided him with more money than he had ever earned before . |
| 30 | A sequel to Marshall Aid was needed to consolidate what the latter had begun . |