Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv prt] [to-vb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , so popular were the Pathfinders characters that several of them were hived off to appear in another children 's sf serial , City Beneath the Sea , a well written technological thriller penned by John Lucarotti . |
| 2 | One class , after looking at an old muster roll and hearing how men in their county were called up to fight in the militia , made a cut-out army of 150 cardboard soldiers . |
| 3 | The Secretary-General was asked to organize an air bridge for food aid as a matter of urgency , and all parties and factions were called on to co-operate in the deployment of UN security personnel . |
| 4 | Well I do n't know , I think it 's a bit , it 's like Sheila , I mean when David first went out there that 's all she kept on about was going out to live in Australia . |
| 5 | ‘ I was starting to make the Sunday dinner and Brian said he was going out to play in the park . |
| 6 | If she misbehaved , she was packed off to sleep in the old people 's home in another part of the building — a terrifying prospect for a girl with such a vivid imagination . |
| 7 | ‘ Robert had just taken over the Seconds , but was called back to play in the first team . |
| 8 | I was coming back to teach in England after teaching in Nigeria , so I had to get used to the whole thing again . |
| 9 | Look at it this way : Track Two is now doing just what it was set up to do in just the situation they foresaw : a weak British government getting too close to Moscow . |
| 10 | This was allotted out to place in work five aged women , four young girls and one boy , who being able to work were set to spinning hemp . |
| 11 | I was brought up to believe in niceness the way other people believe in God . |
| 12 | Jim Hegan , one of the three , says of the day he was convicted : ‘ Everything that I was brought up to believe in respect for law and order and the RUCwas shattered . |
| 13 | By week 3 he was nodding off to sleep in an armchair as soon as he had finished dinner . |
| 14 | Germany was not only humbled but humiliated , yet the Kaiser was swept off to exile in a train twenty carriages long followed by a cavalcade of twelve motor cars . |
| 15 | The professor was asked out to preach in mining parishes ; and he discovered that , despite the views of the Bishop of Lincoln and the teenagers of St Benet 's that he was unintelligible in a pulpit , he could feel them hanging on his words . |
| 16 | She arrived one day in the clinic in the peak of health and triumphantly announced that she had just got married and was setting out to live in Palm Springs with her husband . |
| 17 | ‘ In the primary-school playground , of course , when I was singled out to stand in the centre of a ring while a dozen sweet-faced little girls danced round me chanting ‘ Shannon 's dad 's a robber . ’ ' |