Example sentences of "was [verb] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't tell no lie , I was goin' to ask 'im for the loan of a bob so 's I could get to see this bloke that might be puttin' a bit of business in me way . |
| 2 | In the case of Alan Charlton , he has these six very fine grey panels , by very fine I just mean they are handsomely proportioned , they are very carefully coloured to a very precise , not just colour but also weight of colour and brightness and so on , but the way they 're shown in the Royal Academy Exhibition , and this is part of it 's stupidity , is , well I got the feeling it was intended to kill them to stone dead by putting them next to something very loud , very elaborate , very expressionist , a vast canvass by a very good painter by Mutter . |
| 3 | The document authorizes an unusually large payment , and it has been plausibly conjectured that it was intended to reimburse him for expenses connected with the ‘ impressing ’ of choirboys for the chapel , which had been ordered in 1440 . |
| 4 | In some ways Donaldson realised that it was he that was actually doing all the learning-Bobo was using a vocabulary that she 'd already acquired , whilst he was struggling to adapt himself to it . |
| 5 | He was struggling to pull something to the top of the dunes . |
| 6 | It had grounds for such fears , since it was struggling to legitimize itself as the Palestinian representative and did not wish this to be challenged by any independent local movement . |
| 7 | Housing benefit was altered to bring it in line with these other two benefits . |
| 8 | The Vice-Chairman was unable to fill the vacant position so an interim administration was formed to take us to the next assembly . |
| 9 | As we all know now the group was formed to save it from extinction and now ‘ Duke ’ is happily not only still with us but thriving . |
| 10 | I was taught to do it in first and use the accelerator . |
| 11 | ‘ I was phoning to thank you for getting me out of police headquarters . ’ |
| 12 | The starting dose was adjusted to induce one to two bowel movements per day , loose enough to ensure complete daily emptying of the lower bowel and prevent pain or stool soiling , or both . |
| 13 | I 'd see both these birds in the zoo , so I was fascinated to see them in the wild . |
| 14 | I must take no notice of their politeness or kindness which was designed to trap me into giving information . |
| 15 | She could not possibly have known the misery such a revelation would cause him , because now he was forbidden to call her by any other name and he knew from painful experience that Tom Fish would not relent until he had his way . |
| 16 | Or perhaps , having selected one 's trout from the tank , one was expected to kick it to death , and with traditional Southern courtesy they wished to prevent my Italian loafers getting messed . |
| 17 | In Wales also Gloucester was expected to set himself at the head of existing officials . |
| 18 | In Wales also Gloucester was expected to set himself at the head of existing officials . |
| 19 | Sun was expected to display it at PC Expo this summer but Snoopy has never been seen except behind closed doors . |
| 20 | I understood that this was my mother 's wedding , and although I was necessary to it I was expected to do nothing but be there and appear contented . |
| 21 | For although the particular details might vary , history was expected to repeat itself in each katun , and significant events would follow the pre-ordained general pattern . |
| 22 | IBM Corp is expected to announce the Unix version of its DB/2 successor to OS/2 Database Manager this Tuesday , although the company was expected to preview it in Paris last Friday : it is IBM 's first in-house relational database offering for AIX users , and should help the RS/6000s fit into DRDA ( Distributed Relational Database Architecture ) and SAA environments — but it 's unlikely to appeal to those more used to going to third parties for their database technology . |
| 23 | How could the working class make effective use of the political power which the vote was expected to give them without the opportunity to engage in an open discussion of political principle and perspectives ? |
| 24 | As it was American atomic attitudes in this period hardened British resolution not to be bullied out of the business and not to acquiesce in an American monopoly ; it encouraged her determination to be a nuclear power for the sake of the influence this was expected to give her in Washington ! |
| 25 | The landlord 's wife was expected to accompany him on the trip to Head Office . |
| 26 | I was demanding a big rise in salary , just to prove my worth ; and Andrew was refusing to give it to me , as a matter of principle . |
| 27 | This man she 's married finally came to his senses , but he was refusing to marry her at one point . |
| 28 | As Tolstoy himself concedes , in The Minister and the Massacres ( p 44 ) : Neither Gen Krasnov nor any other old emigre was seeking to extricate himself from sharing whatever fate attended those of their comrades who were in the equivocal position of being Soviet citizens . |
| 29 | Unconsciously perhaps Jeanne was seeking to free herself from her narrow and oppressively respectable bourgeois family . |
| 30 | After closer inspection PA474 was found to be in excellent condition and permission was granted to fly it to Waddington , where it arrived on August 18 , 1965 . |