Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [to-vb] [coord] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 ALL Royal Bank banknotes carried the arms ( and head ) of George II up until as recently as the early 1960s when there was a general clampdown on indiscriminate use of the Royal Arms and we were told to go and get our own .
2 Need watering a bit , have those back up there and really you seem even worse than oh were going to go and do your bedroom .
3 Very rich men and women were going to come and patronize me : insult me .
4 You were going to write and tell me where she is .
5 Hatty , Finance Minister in Whitehead 's liberal Cabinet , London-born , is a thoughtful man who has given outstanding service ; he was largely responsible for starting Marimba Township , where Africans working in Salisbury were enabled to build and own their own houses .
6 When foresters raised the hue and cry , the men of the neighbouring townships were bound to come and help them .
7 Rather , it was a ‘ haphazard ’ sample in that users who arrived to ‘ score ’ at the houses under study while the researcher was present were asked to participate and ask their friends to participate .
8 The linguists were allowed to diminish or extinguish their study of the sciences : the scientists , if they were to maintain a full programme in three separate sciences , had no time to waste on languages .
9 If they think about it at all , they think of a mythical golden age when children at school were naturally obedient , and , if not , were forced to learn and to remember what they were told .
10 In order to help them come to terms with the loss , the grief stricken couple and their close relatives were encouraged to go and see their dead baby and pay their last respects .
11 ‘ You were ordered to stay and help our friends . ’
12 Nor did he raise one word about the history of his own great movement , about the fact that the working people of this country were urged to organise and to use their vote , through which they could change the policies under which they lived .
13 The extra vehicles in the street with their flashing blue lights , had brought some of the neighbours to their doors or bedroom windows and one of the uniforms was designated to go and ask them if they 'd seen anything .
14 A checklist of the types of physical abuse was developed to identify and categorise them .
15 ‘ We do n't know yet exactly what happened but she was seen to slip and bang her head .
16 In a sixth paper he was made to describe and deplore his own misdeeds in the blackest hues .
17 The ball come across and er I see Bedford had his back to the goal , and I could see he was going to swivel and hit it with his left foot , and I 've just come across the goal and er , he just hit it down low to my right hand side and luckily I 've come the right way and pushed it wide .
18 He asked me what I was going to wear and said his mam had just bought him a new duffle coat and did I like it , ’ she says .
19 ‘ When he was stopped by the police at the roadside and given the breath test he was convinced he was going to fail and lose his licence .
20 I think she was going to try and throw it out of the window but she did n't have the strength .
21 This was to be her special torture then : just when she had discovered what a selfish , callous , calculating person Mark was , everybody was going to try and sell him to her .
22 Terry had invested so much in the project that he was damned sure he was going to try and get it home with him .
23 ‘ I felt he was going to try and hit me again so I stuck my right hand out .
24 I was going to come and see you , or write a note about it . ’
25 ‘ I was going to come and see you tomorrow , ’ she said .
26 Helios was thought to see and know everything , and he was often invoked in blessings ; his fault was that he could not keep a secret .
27 Everyone in the playground was staring at her , and any minute now Miss Hardbroom ( Mildred 's terrifying form-mistress from the previous year ) was bound to appear and accuse her of upsetting a poor new girl .
28 The next thing we did was starting to support and run it , of course .
29 I knew my heart would break if he left me and she was threatening to come and find him !
30 ‘ At one stage when he was at United I was asked to go and help him seek a settlement after a specialist 's report said his knees would n't last another 12 months ! ’
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