Example sentences of "[verb] it [was/were] to " in BNC.

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1 Christopher Court , MP , had no difficulty in getting straight through on the telephone to Chief Superintendent Coffin once he had decided it was to him he wished to speak .
2 When she woke it was to the incessant chattering of the wheels against the rails and Emily thought she would never arrive at her destination .
3 Erm I think it was an inter-club actually , oh the inter-club table show was the only night he could manage and that was no good to us so erm we , we the only way we could do it was to t bring him the night that there was a full table show transfer the full table show to the champion of champions judge that first and put the winning fish into the champion of champions and I know , well it 's gon na be woof you know a rush and that will , oh well , never mind .
4 Now , the fact of a past service raises an implication that at the time it was rendered it was to be paid for , and , if it was a service which was to be paid for , when you get in the subsequent document a promise to pay , that promise may be treated either as an admission which evidences or as a positive bargain which fixes the amount of that reasonable remuneration on the faith of which the service was originally rendered .
5 DAUGHTERS of the rich and famous had to be evacuated from their boarding school yesterday after the headmistress discovered it was to be the site of a massive rave party .
6 Residents were worried that adaptations to the building at the corner of Bow Street and Princes Road meant it was to be used as a morgue .
7 Crowds of chanting protestors gathered in the town centre as the 65-year-old Edinburgh man addressed a bunch of supporters at the King 's Head Hotel which did not realise it was to be the BNP 's venue .
8 When Pamela 's parents were interviewed they spent a lot of time emphasizing how necessary they thought it was to discipline Pamela .
9 Aye , I always thought it was to with Yorkshire .
10 Though approaching early middle age , on the outbreak of the last world war he at once abandoned his pursuits for active service and very hard service it was to be .
11 But to be told that he could not make it was to be told that this gift could disappear as unpredictably as it had arrived .
12 But from the moment that the electorate realised it was to be stripped of its Deutschemark , a symbol of nationhood , Germans began to wonder how much else had been given away .
13 With economic vision so blinkered it was to be expected that the economy would be allowed to drift with the market situation and without significant and positive government direction .
14 And so , i I mean it was to me it was a total waste of time over there !
15 Extending the requirement for leave to appeal It was to be hoped that in the context of forthcoming legislation , consideration would be given to extending the requirement for leave to appeal across the board , both because there was no justification for allowing any appeal to proceed if it had no prospect of success and because the present dividing lines between those in which leave was required and those in which it was not , was quite illogical .
16 When she spoke it was to the shoes .
17 I did n't think I like the cut of it very much or , I think it was to tight .
18 Think it was to all of Over the Rainbow .
19 I wish it were to here .
20 ‘ I wish it were to here .
21 When she heard how a new doctor had been called in , all the familiar names having left Florence previously thinking it was to be plunged into war , she felt indignant — why was she not called in , she who knew more about Mrs Browning 's illnesses than any other person ?
22 When Floridablanca 's rigid hostility to Revolutionary France and Aranda 's neutralism had both failed it was to such an adviser that the court turned to solve the problem of Franco-Spanish relations .
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