Example sentences of "that was [verb] [to-vb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next day they charged Barry Moxton with the murder of his wife Mary and there was a picture on the front pages of him being led away with a blanket over his head and another of a policeman coming out of his mother 's house with a plastic bag that was said to contain his bloodstained and half-burned clothing , and a day or so after that Uncle Titch turned up in South Wales with his horse and cart where he said he 'd gone after a merry-go-round and did n't know what all the fuss was about , did n't know about any murder , did n't read the papers and was generally believed , at least by the people on the estate , because it was typical of Uncle Titch , and by that time the Queerfella who was queerer than any of them knew had made a full confession and it was all over bar the shouting and the trial , when he pleaded guilty and was sent down for life and everyone said he should have been hanged and pretended it had never once crossed their minds that it was Uncle Titch that done it . |
| 2 | In his mind the CIA had become an evil , many-tentacled monster that was trying to strangle his young nation by every means possible . |
| 3 | One heavily bejewelled hand stroked his long , white , unbraided beard , while the other held a silver riding crop — an affectation that was meant to symbolise his love of horses . |
| 4 | With sheep farmers in Wales still unable to market their lambs , and with new ‘ hot spots ’ of contamination still being discovered in parts of the country , this was a crisis that was continuing to leave its mark well beyond the Ukraine . |
| 5 | There were two scheduled stops on my journey : the first was a company that was going to hold my bulkier items in storage ( a firm that my now ex-landlord had told me about which had some spare space in a lock-up in a basement car park ) ; the second was of course the Palace Hotel where I was going to drop off everything else . |
| 6 | Greatness trickled from the corpus of his image , his career now like a gutshot that was going to take its time before killing . |