Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] to do [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well he star I think probably the first He must have been a joiner for a wee while before he was you were just asked to do this the same I suppose as any other job any other joiner job |
| 2 | I mean , a lot , I can say with on the youths , I think were doing , were , were , were walking with young people at the local levels of various places in the town you know , we 've got , we have n't got as many resources as we want yet , but were still trying to do that , well I actually feel , on youth we 're doing quite a good job you know , expensive job you know , that we are , and , and all that concerns you raise , were certainly aware of . |
| 3 | We were n't elected to do that . |
| 4 | Well I mean I passed my test an I were n't made to do any of that . |
| 5 | So when you get ten of them working overtime , and that , those ten people were n't budgeted to do any overtime . |
| 6 | Er , your own line in , I thought you were n't allowed to do that ? |
| 7 | And even during the Second World War er mothers with their children under the age of five er they were n't expected to do any war work at all . |
| 8 | I suppose it was because we would have had to talk about it then , and you 'd already decided you were n't going to do that . |
| 9 | But it also makes what is the critical point about finishing processes , namely that in any given office , only a handful of the work-force were actually required to do this . |
| 10 | Grand though she was , she was rarely allowed to do any nursing , beyond changing the odd dressing So she spent most of her time scrubbing floors . |
| 11 | Yeah I was just I was just trying to do that |
| 12 | Gradually Grégoire seemed to relax : he explained that he was allowed to help the stableboys sometimes ; he would have liked to ride , too , but of course he was not allowed to do that . |
| 13 | Maurice , an amiable young man , had realised as soon as he came to the Reach that Richard was always going to do this and that he himself would accordingly be known as Dondeschiepolschuygen IV which was inscribed in gilt lettering on his bows . |
| 14 | I was n't meant to do that . |
| 15 | He hoped Donald was n't going to do that . |
| 16 | There was n't anything she could do about it , though , except back away , and she certainly was n't going to do that ! |
| 17 | If she did that , she would be admitting that he still had the power to affect her , and she was n't going to do that ! |
| 18 | I think after ‘ Reckless ’ I knew I was n't going to do another full production because I was just driving everybody too hard , and becoming very miserable doing it . |
| 19 | ‘ It was essentially decided to do this because major institutions in the City were offering their employees an opportunity . |