Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] was [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All that such devices could ever hope to do was to stave off the exercise of French sovereignty . |
| 2 | Another race he could have won was staged across the Hoggar Mountains of the Algerian Sahara , where , after running a marathon a day in intense heat for 13 days , he deliberately slowed to allow another runner to win . |
| 3 | I was simply trying to emulate … ’ but whatever she might have said was lost to the word forever as she crumpled bonelessly to the floor in a dead faint . |
| 4 | But any charm the scenery may have had was lost on one member of the crew : James McKeatling was taken sick in the far-from-healthy climate , and was left on shore . |
| 5 | But any popular appeal to Catholics that such moves might have had was undermined by repressive acts such as the introduction of internment — imprisonment without trial — for suspected nationalist terrorists . |
| 6 | Any sense of importance this might have invoked was quelled by pure funk — in Hoomey 's case , at least — of what lay ahead . |