Example sentences of "[was/were] [to-vb] [indef pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | He pulled Carla into his arms and closed his eyes , feeling a vast , directionless violence , as if his task were to kill everyone in the world and the problem was how to start . |
2 | To flash a badge was to risk someone in the crowd remembering his face and in the future , on another job , he could fingered as the stoolie he truly was . |
3 | One of his compulsive gambits was to challenge everyone at the first meeting . |
4 | One of the worst things that could happen to a pupil was to leave something in the dining room by mistake after dinner . |
5 | His first thought was to do something to the Volkswagen Passat . |
6 | ‘ My first reaction was to get someone from the British Transport Police , but the door of their office was locked . |