Example sentences of "[was/were] [to-vb] they [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His first instinct was to fling them out of the window ; to put as much distance as he could between them and him . |
| 2 | Since no detailed register of these existed at the point of emancipation , one of the main purposes of the post-1861 charters was to set them down on paper . |
| 3 | My existing plan was to grow them on to about 4in , at which size , on previous experience , a pair should form and spawn . |
| 4 | Two black Honda scramblers were parked close to the workbench and her first thought was to put them out of action , but she doubted whether she could get in a clear shot without exposing her head . |
| 5 | Anyway , most of these girls grew out of these crushes — soon the great problem was to keep them away from the Grammar School boys at the other end of the road . |
| 6 | Hastings had showed an interest in the Yarmouth fisheries , with the four main Kentish ports , long before the Conquest ; what the latter did eventually was to weld them together in a loose federation for supplying ship rather than knight service in return for limited privileges . |
| 7 | Murray bought his compass and they walked on together , beginning the skein of meaningless jokes and catchwords which was to bind them together in the next few weeks . |
| 8 | I think their suggestion was that they had to go via Norwood Gardens because they then turned right at the in and went up into the middle of and it was to get them on to that line that they had to go through . |
| 9 | We were placed on top of the leading beast ; and our art was to bring them home by words only , no reins to be used . |
| 10 | They deteriorated with time , and the only way to prolong their life was to store them carefully in airtight containers and only wear them on special occasions . |