Example sentences of "was [pron] [adv] [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Towards the end of his association with Minton , Bowler realised : ‘ He did n't want to play this role , but there was nothing else left to play . ’ |
| 2 | So everything 's there , printing presses repro separation houses , sheet film , computer set up and Apple Macs and everything is there , it 's actually a very impressive set up erm , the Queen Margaret 's course , I 'm slightly dubious about I once had a colleague I 'm going back a decade who had been employed on the basis of doing the communications course at Queen Margaret I think , and it turned out that it was n't communications as we understood it , it was n't our sort of communications P R newspapers and things like that , it was communications on a much broader , broader front so it did n't actually fit in to the world of P R and what happened was I then had to sit down and train this woman from scratch and get rid of a lot of the preconceived notions that she had come in with she had brought from Queen Margaret 's College . |
| 3 | Was I therefore wrong to hope ? |
| 4 | Was I therefore wrong to hope ? |
| 5 | Was I therefore wrong to hope ? |
| 6 | Was I really going to marry him , or was it all a dream ? |
| 7 | Under attack on all sides , not least from the infant population which was itself unwittingly helping to spread disease through the narrow streets and alleys of the town , some Frome people found a temporary escape in one or other of the forty or more pubs which vied with each other for custom ; drunkenness was commonplace , and many of those who did n't go to an early grave with some infection or other departed this life with a putrid liver . |
| 8 | Or was she simply going to drive up to the front door and announce herself ? |
| 9 | Was she still trying to retrieve something ? |
| 10 | Was she really prepared to accept all this humiliation for the sake of however many weekends he spared her before he tired of her ? |
| 11 | Was she really going to clear everything out of here ? |
| 12 | Was she now trying to make Robert jealous in his turn ? |
| 13 | Was she actually planning to aid and abet him in this unexpected , meaningless sexual dalliance ? |
| 14 | How was she ever going to leave him ? |
| 15 | How was she ever going to get the chance to think things through if her last sanctuary had been commandeered by an absenting workman ? |
| 16 | How was she ever going to face him again ? |
| 17 | So we 've er we felt that was we only had to cope with if the worst came to the worst . |
| 18 | What made the annual gathering even worse was we always had to listen to her recite the twenty-third psalm , standing up there on the stage in her white dress , white socks , black shoes . |
| 19 | Why was he so determined to deny her the right to reach for her dream ? |
| 20 | Or was he merely seeking to confuse people in the West who have been calling for military intervention ? |
| 21 | I just mean after the way he had lived , how was he ever going to convince anybody he was a white man ? |
| 22 | Was he deliberately trying to make her feel even more humiliated ? |
| 23 | Was he really trying to get her drunk ? |
| 24 | And was he really trying to tell her that he really did n't indulge in casual affairs ? |
| 25 | Nkrumah was undecided ; was he really intended to promote the political interests of the intelligentsia ? |
| 26 | Was he really going to join ship as navigator ? |
| 27 | Was he really going to commit himself to that extent ? |
| 28 | What had happened was what always seemed to happen when there was trouble underground . |
| 29 | How he could have concluded that there was anything better designed to protect ‘ rights to pecuniary gain ’ than barristers ' exclusive right of audience in court is a passing curiosity . |