Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv prt] to [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fire is all animals ' natural enemy , no animal is gon na go through fire of its own volition , erm and again the point , just moving away from the cats , which I 'd agree , the cat was hanging on to that platform , looking very stressed , signs of its tail , course it 's not gon na jump . |
| 2 | I could n't trust the boots , and was hanging on to any hold . |
| 3 | For all he knew , Gwen was lying upstairs dead and the man in front of him was building up to another outburst . |
| 4 | He was darting up to each of the dogs in turn , ears pricked , eyes blazing with devilment , dabbing a paw at them then streaking away . |
| 5 | He was carried up to that garret , probably in a state of stupor , drunk or drugged . |
| 6 | When trade was good , Brookhouse expanded and thrived and when times became hard , it lost value and was leased out to many different tenants . |
| 7 | The case was turned over to another policeman with a mean , bony face and narrow eyes . |
| 8 | It is quite clear that nothing is missing from the other end of the Interludium as it was copied on to this vellum : the vellum had already been cut to its surviving top edge by the time the Interludium came to be written on to it . |
| 9 | Charlie downed in one gulp the tot of rum that was handed out to all the men up and down the trenches just before a battle . |
| 10 | But I thought that er with coming off that , Malcolm was going on to that . |
| 11 | Schwartzman and Volk reckon that weathering was helped along to such an extent that the Earth is 35°C cooler than it would have been on the lifeless Earth . |
| 12 | But Joan was harking back to that awful day . |
| 13 | As an example close to home , it would be a sanction much more powerful than an SEC if , as head of audit of my firm , I was called in to that panel to be told that if my firm wanted the institutional shareholders to vote their proxies in favour of our being reappointed auditors to this or that company , we would have to mend our ways in some respect . |
| 14 | I was taken out to another room , sat down and then heard that thick voice , full of soft , sickly fruit . |
| 15 | However , work on the War Time Operational Expert System was continued until it was passed over to another Branch and , of course , I have continued to sponsor the work on the Circuit Board Fault Diagnostic Aid since this was my own MSc project . |
| 16 | It 's just conceivable that one or other of those houses was passed on to another organisation … |
| 17 | Any strange or inexplicable behaviour , both in humans and in the natural world , was put down to some supernatural sixth sense . |
| 18 | Councillor Community Environmental Services Committee are responsible for the large number of partnerships , social partnerships , with big business that the Labour Group are bringing to and the reason the Percent for Art was on that Committee was to link in to that er those those partnerships ' proposals . |
| 19 | Alongside the usual duties of a curate , I worked as leader of a faith sharing team which was sent out to many parishes leading weekends of renewal and weeks of mission . |
| 20 | The leadership unanimously gave permission and word was sent out to all Republican units in the North to encourage as many people as possible to participate . |
| 21 | In March 1992 , a questionnaire was sent out to all of the Society 's exchange partners in the hope that records could be updated and entered on to a database . |
| 22 | Erm the following the the last meeting of the committee , erm the matter was er raised by your Chairman and er he asked me to send to all of you er a copy of an extract from the erm Commissions Report relating to Derbyshire and a copy of a Department of the Environment press release of the twenty second of October which refers to one or two things that er David Curry had said about strategic planning and that was sent out to all members of the committee on the twenty second of November and erm n not expecting you to have brought back with you or to have remembered exactly what it said , perhaps I can just erm refer to the , the options for erm strategic planning that were outlined by Mr Curry in that press release and i the er erm er paper that he had delivered . |