Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hoarse words were intended to come out as a joke , but instead they held a raw note of emotion which seemed to hang in the air between them . |
| 2 | High-sulphur content coal mining areas , such as the Mid-West , were expected to lose out in favour of lower-sulphur coal from the West Coast and abroad . |
| 3 | According to some estimates in late January , between 500,000 and 1,300,000 people were expected to come out of Iraq as refugees . |
| 4 | You may have then had a verbal exchange with your next in line , but bar that you were expected to get on with the work . |
| 5 | Judy Jones , team manager ( mental health ) in the London Borough of Brent , said community care funds for the financial year were expected to run out within three or four months . |
| 6 | The Arab masses , indignant at the western humiliation of Saddam Hussein , were expected to rise up against their pro-western leaders . |
| 7 | We could n't often see them from the main road which passed in front of the building because they were forbidden to look out of the windows . |
| 8 | Western practices and ideas were modified to fit in with Japanese reality — though there were periods when ‘ Westernization ’ was very much the vogue . |
| 9 | Often , as the night drew on , a number of people were seen to lie down in odd places , both in Partisan Street and on the Embankment . |
| 10 | In the street below the house with the dome people were pausing to look up at the arrows in the spike . |
| 11 | They were made to lie down on the floor in the back . |
| 12 | It seems that when they were made to lie down in the back of the truck and their hands were tied behind them , Katrine remembers there being rags underneath her . |
| 13 | Maybe it is time you were made to come out of your shell . ’ |
| 14 | Filmmakers were attempting to link in to contemporary realities . |
| 15 | It arose from a chance encounter at one of the regular community meetings of the YCCC held at a time when they were attempting to reach out to any and all sorts of assistance in solving their pollution problem . |
| 16 | Unfortunately those officers were needed to help out with the incident at Milton Keynes … shortly before the display . |
| 17 | We were woken up at 5.30 am , and Alex and I were told to go over to the kitchens to fetch the breakfast . |
| 18 | After a fortnight we were told to go down to the airfield for a possible lift into Assam , but often refugees went in the morning but were back in the evening as the planes were so busy taking out wounded soldiers . |
| 19 | Furthermore , they were told to point out to the mother that LGS would not reduce the output of stool from the sick child , but was meant to prevent the dehydration associated with the diarrhoea . |
| 20 | On 16th December 1991 , the building societies and bank bosses were called in by the Government for an emergency briefing and were told to come back in two days with solutions . |
| 21 | ‘ We raised the possibility of an MBO and were told to get back in our box , ’ says finance director Nick Pearch . |
| 22 | A second controlled explosion was carried out at 10.55pm and people were told to stay up to a mile away from the scene . |
| 23 | Ray Angel and Brian Hodgson were entrusted to come up with a suitably electronic-sounding voice . |
| 24 | And there was lots of the we came to an end and if we were going to carry on with this further we the everybody was getting a bit fed up with it . |
| 25 | You see , so these people were going to move in at the weekend so had to put a stop to that cos they had no authority to move in there until the solicitors try and get this thing sorted out . |
| 26 | Patrick squirmed uncomfortably in the jumper and the trousers , which were at least two sizes too large for him — he felt as if they were going to fall down at any moment . |
| 27 | Ace felt that her eyes were going to vibrate out of their sockets . |
| 28 | Like Miss Honey , she felt sure both ears were going to come off at any moment with all the weight that was on them . |
| 29 | The only words they exchanged during the engagements were to discuss which side of the car they were going to step out of . |
| 30 | They were going to break out of their self-imposed cage . |