Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] to come [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hoarse words were intended to come out as a joke , but instead they held a raw note of emotion which seemed to hang in the air between them . |
| 2 | According to some estimates in late January , between 500,000 and 1,300,000 people were expected to come out of Iraq as refugees . |
| 3 | Maybe it is time you were made to come out of your shell . ’ |
| 4 | On 16th December 1991 , the building societies and bank bosses were called in by the Government for an emergency briefing and were told to come back in two days with solutions . |
| 5 | Ray Angel and Brian Hodgson were entrusted to come up with a suitably electronic-sounding voice . |
| 6 | Yes I mean th th th th the fact that you 've got a whole range of problems an an and you , you were bound to come up against those problems if you try and define Marxist in a strict sense , and therefore you , you were always seeking to sort of make . |
| 7 | Instead the 20 District Health authorities involved were asked to come up with a £9,000 each by tomorrow afternoon . |
| 8 | The two understudies were asked to come back on the Friday afternoon , when there was going to be a complete run of the play for the producers and Malcolm Harris . |
| 9 | Last time if you were n't sure which to make we were allowed to come up with about ten papers |
| 10 | The students quickly bonded themselves into a tight knit group and they fought , argued , demanded and were encouraged to come back for more . |
| 11 | FREEMASONS were urged to come out of hiding by John Major yesterday . |
| 12 | He was intended to come down at the wrong moment , disappear , do the same again , then go shooting through the roof when the mechanics of the wire go wrong . |
| 13 | Hunched in a remote and subordinate cranny of government — devising a rent bill at the Ministry of Housing and Local Government , as a matter of fact — I was not disposed to go overboard when our armed forces were launched into the attack in November ; but what on earth was intended to come out of it and how an occupation found untenable could be tenably restored and sustained by force was beyond the comprehension of this unmoved spectator . |
| 14 | A female was believed to come back after a night 's hunt and give her milk to whichever baby grabbed her teat first . |
| 15 | He was tempted to come out with the stuff about Michael and the IRA . |