Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [to-vb] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its accommodation was considerably greater than would ever be needed in normal times , but its nationalistic opulence was intended to come into its own every four years , at the inauguration of successive presidents . |
| 2 | She was recalled to account for what had happened . |
| 3 | In his reply to Coenwulf , the pope refused to countenance the removal of the archbishop of Canterbury to London , but the impact of this papal prohibition was offset by the papal recognition of Eadberht 's earlier ordination and consequent ineligibility for the kingship and permission was given to proceed against him as a pretender to royal power . |
| 4 | In 1979 a residential working party of users was arranged to talk about their practical experiences with the TL . |
| 5 | ‘ I was assigned to look after him for a while , ’ Harvey answered . |
| 6 | Michael Harvey was assigned to look after him inside the house . |
| 7 | Severe degradation and melting of the reactor 's core was regarded as something that was virtually impossible given that the plant was designed to cope with something as extreme as a guillotine break in a main coolant pipe . |
| 8 | It was after that I was forbidden to write to you . |
| 9 | The final obstacle to his progress was overcome just before sunrise and thus the sun god was reanimated to embark on his morning boat and bring light again to the earth . |
| 10 | The malais removed him without punishing him especially ; I guess he was permitted to spit on me . |
| 11 | ETA Ardneavie 2200/22/6 , her travel instructions stated precisely — which really meant that Wren Violet T. McKeown was expected to arrive at her destination by 10 P.M. on the twenty-second day of June . |
| 12 | He soon realised , though , that he was expected to listen to me as well . |
| 13 | Nonetheless , the king was expected to consult with his tenants-in-chief ( the earls , barons , and leading churchmen of the kingdom ) in order to discover and declare the law and to have their counsel before any levies of extraordinary taxation were made . |
| 14 | This was at a time when the resistance of Japan was expected to continue for anything up to eighteen months later . |
| 15 | On the other weekdays and at weekends , Father Barnes was expected to look after himself There had never been a job description . |
| 16 | It feels to Alice that motherhood means overturning ‘ almost all the marital , housing , professional and personal progress I was expected to make in my 20s . |
| 17 | As for Kitty , she just sulked and asked how she was expected to survive without him . |
| 18 | She 'd heard since that he 'd left the health service and gone abroad to work … and now not only was he back , but she was expected to work with him . |
| 19 | Each young gentleman was provided with his own chamber-pot , which he was expected to empty for himself on the common midden , situated behind the houses . |
| 20 | The failure of the CPT , Apto 's successor , which had the endorsement of the activist wing of the Roman Catholic Church and of the leading CNT and CUT labour confederations , to emulate the May success was attributed to its failure effectively to mobilize its supporters , which in turn was felt to stem from its mistaken belief that the Colorados were a spent political force . |
| 21 | The yard door was bolted at 11.15 but a woman — Sara ? — was seen to enter by it at around 11.30 . |
| 22 | Since formal application for the erection of suitable fencing would only result in further delay it was decided to proceed on our own . |
| 23 | Since formal application for the erection of suitable fencing would only result in further delay it was decided to proceed on our own . |
| 24 | It was decided to scrape off what remained of the scale , using a hoe and then pan-scourers . |
| 25 | Nellie 's last few words stayed in Fred 's mind and later , in the comfort of the cosy front room above the dining rooms , after Maisie had left , he was moved to speak to his young wife about what her mother had said to him . |
| 26 | I was moved to write to you when I read Sue Frost 's comment in You And Your Kids recently : ‘ The child who shouts ‘ yummy ’ at a plate of Brussels sprouts has n't yet been born . ’ |
| 27 | She came to North Yorkshire from London with her husband and was moved to write after his death . |
| 28 | Both features resembled their names to a baffling degree but , despite this , Abu was moved to expound upon them with such fervent body language that we nearly plunged into the ravine and terminated our lives at the very lip of the sacred symbol of where we had begun it . |
| 29 | Nurse found them and cracked them between her fingernails the way Smallfry sometimes did when he was made to kneel with his head in her lap , breathing her perfume and savouring the rare closeness of her . |
| 30 | A brown , strong-smelling fluid , thick with honey , was poured into a bowl and Hugh was made to drink from it . |