Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [to-vb] [pron] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This year , by some freak of fate , the Mendozas had drawn the O'Briens in the first round , and were due to play them at the latter 's new polo club forty miles away on the first Saturday in December . |
| 2 | We were due to show it at the end of the party and of course … well , you know what happened . |
| 3 | The Stanleys were careful to place themselves at the head of local opinion rather than ride the county roughshod and their identity of opinion with local Unionists on political and religious matters made them even more powerful . |
| 4 | The cavalry had already ridden through the pall of dust and smoke that hung over the demolished Cutcherry and now they were ready to hurl themselves at the garrison , hastily assembled behind the churchyard wall . |
| 5 | And I was sorry to miss you at the Keppels 's thrash ; I hope that you are recovered ? |
| 6 | Jenny was supposed to meet me at the airport . " |
| 7 | She ignores me , whining about how he was supposed to meet her at the Bullet 's Head . |
| 8 | I thought she was supposed to have him at the beginning of this month . |
| 9 | ‘ I was glad to see her at the pictures with you , ’ Anne said . |
| 10 | It was good to see you at the DoE Green College Sustainability Seminar the other day . |
| 11 | Towards the end of the third hour , a little man at the back of the great hall , a faithful apparatchik from the area of the Caspian Sea , was unable to contain himself at the unanticipated exposition of the enormities of Stalin . |
| 12 | She was able to repeat them at the trial of the young man — and he was sentenced to seven years in prison . |