Example sentences of "was [verb] [to-vb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How she was goin' to put up with the wee 'un 's fancy talk and fancy ways , she did n't know . |
| 2 | ‘ Who said I was goin' to wash up ? |
| 3 | Ken played Julius Caesar in a picture that , with no apologies , was intended to cash in on the fame of the Elizabeth Taylor Richard Burton fiasco of the previous year . |
| 4 | The three old miners considered that it was intended to carry out this operation a little before the smelt houses " left off " and of course they left off by persuasion of the Parliamentary forces , violent or otherwise . |
| 5 | The convention 's eighth protocol , which was opened for signature in March 1985 and was intended to speed up procedures before the Commission of Human Rights and the Court of Human Rights ( see p. 33881 ) , came into force on Jan. 1 , 1990 . |
| 6 | I think the department of Health was swayed rather more than it should have been by that lobby , because the sort of service that was intended to set up in Camberwell has not yet been set up . |
| 7 | It was intended to set up all over Europe ; can it , Mr Fredrikson asked rhetorically , repeat the Swedish experience ? |
| 8 | An impromptu mod of 1943 was intended to hit back . |
| 9 | Our conference , which Delamothe said was attended by ‘ political activists and pensioners , ’ was intended to open up the debate to the public and to inform people using the service . |
| 10 | It may be that the Breton expedition was intended to keep up pressure on the French to make the sort of concessions the English would feel able to accept , but it is equally possible that the confused direction of English policy reflected conflicting influences at court . |
| 11 | Meanwhile the return of a Labour Government in 1974 had once again brought into question the status of Direct Grant schools , and it was announced in Parliament on 11th March that it was intended to phase out the system over a period of seven years , commencing in September 1976 . |
| 12 | The Department 's share of the costs of approved courses was intended to average out at 25% . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It was intended to follow up , through the records , all the Blacks and Asians who had been arrested , and a sample of the Whites . |
| 16 | The decree was intended to wipe out the illegal cash holdings of black-marketeers , and to drain from the economy up to 20 per cent of the money supply , which had become bloated by the printing of new money to cover budget deficits in recent years . |
| 17 | SeaDocs was intended to bring about the telecommunicated negotiation of bills of lading issued in connection with oil shipments . |
| 18 | Their supply base had been moved forward to Benghazi , which by that time had been captured by the British , and it was intended to stay out for as long as two months , mounting almost nightly raids . |
| 19 | This great work , appearing over a quarter of a century , was intended to sum up all available knowledge . |
| 20 | Maxted looked up from a pile of papers he was struggling to sort out . |
| 21 | Lisa still saw herself as a ‘ smoker ’ who was struggling to give up , rather than as a ‘ non-smoker ’ ( who might occasionally have a cigarette ) . |
| 22 | ‘ It sounds corny , but as soon as I saw her I knew she was the one , ’ said Blanc , whose first marriage broke up during the difficult years when he was struggling to build up his reputation . |
| 23 | Her voice was stronger , more forceful , and she was struggling to get up . |
| 24 | Lawton was struggling to get out of his pack the receiver that would pick up the radio signals from the miniature transceiver Forster said was attached to his slayer . |
| 25 | Although desiring a diplomatic posting to Venice , Mackenzie was recalled to take over Scottish affairs from Sir Gilbert Elliot , third baronet [ q.v . ] . |
| 26 | A general system of multilateral trade and payments became more tenable in the 1950s when the European Payments Union was formed to take over payment settlements between European countries ( including their colonies and dependencies ) . |
| 27 | In 1967 , the British Bliss Classification Association ( BCA ) was formed to take over responsibility for BC ; work began on its revision in 1969 under the editorial direction of Jack Mills . |
| 28 | In addition a cabinet office unit was formed to advise on and co-ordinate inner city policies , and the Prime Minister drafted specialist advisers into her own policy unit in Downing Street . |
| 29 | For example , one woman who was prominent in a demonstration against the removal of crucifixes was heard to shout out : ‘ I am a hundred per cent Hitler supporter and have been a National Socialist since 1923 . |
| 30 | Two hours later the order was given to cut down the masts . |