Example sentences of "was [prep] them [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The French would be content so long as the arrangement was for them to sell abroad ; there can , however , be no question of France permitting her massive investment in nuclear power to be undermined by making it possible for French consumers to buy in from abroad . |
| 2 | The policy was for them to remain around the fringes of a raid and try and pick off stragglers , leaving the ‘ infighting ’ to the Hurricanes . |
| 3 | Although the loss of the transports assembled or under construction at Le Havre delivered a serious blow to the French plans , others were still being built or collected at ports all along the Bay of Biscay , from Lorient [ or L'Orient ] to Bayonne , including Nantes , La Rochelle and Bordeaux , and the plan , as the English government knew , was for them to assemble at Brest , where the Commander-in-Chief of the naval side of the invasion , Admiral Conflans [ Hubert de Brienne , Comte de Conflans ] had arrived in early July . |
| 4 | I finally said the only thing I damn well wanted was for them to leave so I could get to the hospital . |
| 5 | The idea was for them to place special devices at these loci -devices that the regular maintenance crews would think were innocuous parts of the complex of delicate wiring . |
| 6 | And the door pit is about eighteen inches of steel and that was for them to puncture the thing , to puncture their whisky , little barrels you see . |
| 7 | Her family wrote and said that Medau was Beryl 's whole life and what a great comfort it was to them to know she had so many loving friends . |