Example sentences of "was [to-vb] them [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does it really matter that those were early days , when the joke on campus was that the only way to kill anyone with a laser was to hit them over the head with it ? |
| 2 | One way of showing them respect was to enclose them in reliquaries and enrich these with precious substances . |
| 3 | Where the programme is most revealing is in its assumption that the proper way of handling young refugees was to treat them as if they were entrants to a minor public school . |
| 4 | The subjection of seamen to Marine Boards in the north-east , where crimping was less in evidence than in London or Liverpool , was to treat them like " a parcel of Mexican slaves " . |
| 5 | The note which had been sent into him at the factory had said that he was to meet them at eight o'clock on Boxing Night . |
| 6 | The emphasis that Calvinists placed upon the majesty of God led them to condemn as blasphemous any attempts to tinker with the supernatural , and thus their reaction to calamities was to accept them as part of God 's inscrutable purpose — the working out of a divine providence which governed all human affairs . |
| 7 | Curtis , meanwhile , as the result of his meditations on how a federated empire might collectively discharge its duty to the backward races under British rule , had begun to reach the conclusion that the answer was to train them for eventual self-government . |
| 8 | Before banks or even locks and keys were invented , the usual way of protecting valuable objects and money was to hide them from other people . |
| 9 | His job was to talk them through any roadblocks . |
| 10 | As I recall , they took him out in a refrigerator once , but the usual method with the hostages was to wrap them in blankets or carpet , strapped up with grey plumber 's tape , cover them in sheets , then wheel them out in the middle of the night and stuff them in a van or the boot of a car for the journey . |
| 11 | His aim was to reconvert them to a Unitarian Christianity devoid of superstition . |
| 12 | I have to pay 80p for one piece of Vallis , Cabomba etc at any of the fish centres in this part of the world and £1.50 each if I was to buy them in the little pots . |
| 13 | The worst thing the old politburocracy did to the Czechs and Slovaks was to require them to ‘ live lies ’ because the truth did n't fit the pseudo-history which was supposed to legitimize Brezhnev 's satraps . |
| 14 | The aim was to put them on the spot — or at least to impress the Inspector with your knowledge and concern . |
| 15 | They were in costumes that , in spite of their crumpled shabbiness , recalled the garb of Count Arnheim in the opera of ‘ The Bohemian Girl ’ , and looked like fugitive kings and emperors beside the thick-set railway porter , in capacious velveteens , whose duty it was to put them on the right track towards the ‘ free land ’ . |
| 16 | My first thought was to put them in the dustbin . |
| 17 | ‘ Our trick was to put them in different situations . |
| 18 | The aim was to keep them in as long as possible , for without them the people employed to do the menial duties would have no time to relax … |
| 19 | These were old aims but the intention was to pursue them with greater vigour and effectiveness . |
| 20 | Magellan captured a number of these immense people — one pair by the crud trick of showing them leg-irons and insisting that the proper way to carry them was to allow them to be locked around their ankles . |
| 21 | The bodymaker passed the doors to the finishers , who in turn passed them on to the french polishers ; the doors then moved along to those whose work it was to hang them in position , the operations being so arranged that the polished door was completed just at the point where it was to be hung on the coach . |
| 22 | The aim was to transform them into permanent subsistence farmers or labourers . |
| 23 | Thus the effect of the nineteenth-century sales was to turn them from a class of privileged municipal tenants into outright owners of the surplus land of the community . |
| 24 | All this training was to hold them in good stead for the war to come , when the older members were to form the backbone of a very efficient Fire Brigade . |
| 25 | He knew well enough that convincing politicians was a tough job , so his plan was to present them with an informed and insistent electorate of the future . |
| 26 | From their point of view , the most reasonable way to interpret these strange articles was to regard them as headgear . |
| 27 | Following his experience of the 1880s , Wilson 's initial approach to the problem of foreign seamen was to regard them as a danger to his union , both in providing cheap labour and in posing a threat to its policy of restricting the manning of ships to its own members . |
| 28 | His main priority now was to get them to safety . |
| 29 | But there can be no doubt from a candid examination of the New Testament accounts that the prime purpose of the coming of the Spirit of God upon the disciples was to equip them for mission . |
| 30 | It was not so much meanness that restrained her , as a profound mistrust of her own organizations : and also she felt obscurely , that to invite people into her own room was to condemn them to boredom and unease . |