Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Those two were going to give her the creeps if she really had to take them all the way to Titan . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Well , he was going to give them the chance , was n't he ? |
| 9 | He had done a good enough job of getting her to do that already , and she 'd be damned if she was going to give him the satisfaction of letting it happen again . |
| 10 | So how we 're going to actually interpret that and er act on that here in Manchester and we set out our against er er to achieve that on the simple basis of quality and you 've heard enough about quality over the last two years to not be too surprised that that 's what we 've said was going to give us the cutting edge and perhaps put us in the leading position here in Manchester . |
| 11 | Ah that 's after when you , when Jehovah was going to destroy it the death , yes ? |
| 12 | As we set out in the truck which was going to take us the eight miles to Oakington , I was conscious that for once I was really looking my absolute best . |
| 13 | He sat back down next to her , but he still did n't look at her , and she had a sinking feeling that he really was going to tell her the truth about Nicole , but it would not be to her liking . |
| 14 | Are these the same fans who at the start of the season boasted a five-man strike force which was going to win them the League ? |
| 15 | ‘ I was going to show you the laconicum , ’ he said , and he turned and snuffed like a hound across the green , open bowl , and set out on a selected trail , nose to scent , heading obliquely for the complex of standing walls where several rooms of the ancient baths converged . |
| 16 | He then accepted this and he told me he was going to pay me the other £2,500 in Turkey in Turkish money . ’ |
| 17 | Marvellous how it was run to tell you the truth . |
| 18 | Her alarmed personal physician Dr Michael Roth was forced to give her the stark warning when she refused to rest up completely . |
| 19 | And eventually Doyle was forced to tell him the whole story . |
| 20 | He was forced to tell her the heartbreaking news that : ‘ Mummy is n't coming back . ’ |
| 21 | His girlfriend was trying to give him the kiss of life . |
| 22 | Everyone , save Babs Osborne , understood that her Polish lover was trying to give her the push . |
| 23 | He could n't actually tell me what was going on because that would put him in shtuck but he was trying to tip me the wink . |
| 24 | I found I was trying to announce it the I 'd this and I 'd that in there . |