Example sentences of "was [verb] to [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But this chance was given to us in extremely bad conditions . ’ |
| 2 | She was singing to her hoarsely , struggling through exhaustion and grief to find breath . |
| 3 | He says the victim was walking to her home just a few minutes away along a very busy street . |
| 4 | She was attracted to him partly by the little-boy-lost quality which she now finds so infuriating . |
| 5 | She was annoyed to feel a tiny prickle of unease as she glanced round the big farmhouse kitchen — what on earth was happening to her now ? |
| 6 | ‘ Stay , please , ’ said Maggie ; now she was on her feet she was returning to them rapidly . |
| 7 | A LABOUR MP WAS EXPLAINING to me why there are a number of his colleagues who are sponsored as MPs by the National Union of Railwaymen , but do not appear to have any connections with trains , railway junctions or signal boxes . |
| 8 | He liked their deference and he liked their gin , and within ten minutes he was explaining to them exactly how the daily supply of crosswords in a newspaper was maintained . |
| 9 | If it was a mistake she was committed to it now . |
| 10 | Caspar was shouting to her not to struggle , because it would only mean she would sink quicker , but Fenella was struggling fiercely , because she could not just give in . |
| 11 | For example , a centred heading above justified text would become blocked at the left-hand margin if Alt+P was applied to it as well as to the text below . |
| 12 | Mind you , I was n't gon na tell anybody she was writing to me anyway ! |
| 13 | The mortal faculty of looking ahead was granted to him rarely , and then usually at dead of night . |
| 14 | It was said to me recently , by a railway enthusiast , no less , that , when you have a car , the only cost in using it is the petrol . |
| 15 | In one shape or size this was said to me often in writing this book , and always by women and girls themselves . |
| 16 | I do n't believe I was listening to her very closely . |
| 17 | Malcolm was listening to it all in order to reproduce what was necessary . ’ |
| 18 | My mother 's story on the other hand was told to me much earlier , in bits and pieces throughout the fifties , and it was n't delivered to entertain but rather to teach me lessons . |
| 19 | One tale was told to him as recently as August 1983 . |
| 20 | She thought she might have , that he had come to her in her sleep , whispered to her as he was whispering to her now , but she had forced the dream images away , she had denied them as she had denied what he wanted of her from the beginning . |
| 21 | I was going to it actually |
| 22 | ‘ Even my Antoinette was turning to her rather than me . |
| 23 | The young girl was clinging to her now . |
| 24 | The thing was speaking to her again , and the sensation was deeply horrifying . |
| 25 | Exactly how he achieved this I can not explain except to say that he had a kind of eloquence that made you think he was speaking to you personally and the gift of a born story-teller . |
| 26 | Abruptly , the dark head was bent to hers again , the compulsive brush of his lips against the side of her neck so searing it felt as if they grazed her skin . |
| 27 | However , whilst it is easy to criticize teachers for failing to embark on a thorough and methodical appraisal of their practice it should be remembered that the LEA scheme was introduced to them initially very much in terms of accountability rather than professional development , and for this reason some caution over what to reveal in the self-appraisal document is understandable . |
| 28 | She was eager to welcome whoever was coming to her out of the darkness . |
| 29 | I had to give her a little reminder now and then , to stop her attempting to fly off into the wide blue yonder , by gently pulling the leash , but within two days she was coming to me just as willingly as she had on the straight creance . |
| 30 | ‘ I can understand why my uncle felt that trouble was coming to him here . |