Example sentences of "was [verb] [to-vb] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was phoning to wish us all the best for the season , which was really nice . |
| 2 | James Halden , of course , had no idea that he was helping to support his own daughter . |
| 3 | My son Jonathan , who turns two on Christmas Day , was fascinated to see his own image when I captured him on home video . |
| 4 | However , even persons as brash as Heath had to recognise continually that the majority was uneasy and dangerous and much effort was expended in monitoring it and in camouflaging the government 's Irish unification objective from the man-in-the-street who , initially , was almost incapable of believing that a British government was endeavouring to cede its own subjects to a foreign power . |
| 5 | In Howard 's time , the main problem in respect of remuneration was that the gaoler was expected to generate his own income , by what often amounted to extortion from those in his charge or their family and friends . |
| 6 | Houphouët-Boigny was expected to announce his own candidacy for a seventh term of office at the ruling Parti démocratique de la Côte d'Ivoire ( PDCI ) congress in early October . |
| 7 | So she went with the architect and he was wanting to show us this kind of and we were like , were cold and were back to the hotel , we did n't even go into the house . |
| 8 | But when they brought him up into the higher reaches of the Warden 's Tower and shut him into his new prison he was stupefied to find it all they had claimed . |
| 9 | One tom was seen to carry his own food to the entrance of the den in which his female had given birth and place it there for her . |
| 10 | However , an effort was made to give them some kind of compensation , by extending the provision of the afa ( beans , rice and sugar rations ) beyond the initial emergency period , and offering them free transport and free spectacles . |
| 11 | It 's typical of the states I get in here I suddenly told myself that the digging would have to be done over a number of days , the only stupid thing was to expect to do it all in one . |
| 12 | The doctor in casualty refused to examine him and he was told to see his own doctor in the morning if he still felt unwell . |
| 13 | I was told to get you all stu tangy stuff . |
| 14 | He was expected to practise for several hours a day , but was entrusted to supervise his own timetable . |
| 15 | There was so much to achieve and I fretted endlessly about the work that was needed to co-ordinate it all . |
| 16 | Meanwhile , Claire at 17 was attempting to stage her own ‘ incarnate romance … |
| 17 | ‘ I was attempting to retrieve my own property , ’ Ashley said , and when he strode forward to look into the skip she pointed . |
| 18 | I was going to give her some , gladly . |
| 19 | She was going to need it any moment now . |
| 20 | Meaning that , if he had n't managed to earn respect during his lifetime , no amount afterwards was going to do him any good . |
| 21 | My mother nearly died when she saw the mess but little did she know that I was going to do it all again the next day . |
| 22 | In fact , she was going to do it this morning . |
| 23 | I was going to do it this morning and bring and for the box that they have the old prayer I think going up to Yugoslavia soon |
| 24 | She said she was going to miss one that evening because she had an appointment at a Chelsea wine bar . |
| 25 | The Jessamy who knew her own worth ; who knew she was going to lead her own life , instead of always trying to do what others wanted and expected of her . |
| 26 | Merrill thought he was going to say something more , but the train drew into Bruges , and a little while later she closed the door of her hotel room , thankful to be alone . |
| 27 | She had borrowed a small tape recorder from Jarvis and was going to record her own playing , a critical exercise that she had postponed from day to day . |
| 28 | ‘ Yes , ’ said O'Rourke , ‘ he was going to sort it all out properly when he got back to England . |
| 29 | Billy Sullivan had decided that he was going to own his own gymnasium one day and the idea grew in his mind until it became an obsession . |
| 30 | ‘ We thought she was going to visit her former boyfriend , but obviously she did not . |