Example sentences of "was a [noun] [pers pn] [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John MacEwen said he 'd follow me in his pick-up , and that the journey would probably kill him , but it was a chance I had to take , he was definitely going to die if I left him there . |
| 2 | It was a tune she wanted to enter , be . |
| 3 | There was a psalm he wanted to say before he went , but he could only remember the beginning of it , so he repeated the words over and over again : " Out of the depths have I cried unto Thee , O Lord : Lord hear my voice … " |
| 4 | It was a skill she needed to master if she was to drop into occupied France . |
| 5 | That was a subject he chose to stay silent on . |
| 6 | When it became clear I was a success he tried to get rid of me permanently . |
| 7 | He said it was a preparation he had to take for diabetes . |
| 8 | It was a song I grew to love . |
| 9 | It was a nonsense they tried to teach me when I first made records , you must always do it faster . |
| 10 | It was a mouth he wanted to get to know . |
| 11 | I suppose Michael was quite a superficial person but to me he represented excitement and it was a period I had to go through . |
| 12 | At last Adam spoke , as if each word was a weight he had to lift . |
| 13 | He made an excuse and went home early — there was a review he had to write . |
| 14 | So it was a desire she had to deny . |
| 15 | Neither spoke ; they knew that it was a trauma she had to face . |
| 16 | There was a resolution he tried to get passed every year , condemning the invasion and calling for a withdrawal . |
| 17 | Earlier she admitted : ‘ It was a shame it had to go ’ , when a fund-raiser at the town 's South Cleveland Hospital asked her about the returned Mercedes . |
| 18 | ( This was a situation we had to avoid at all costs . |