Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [be] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quite apart form the new radical Arab regimes , the Soviet Union remained a bellicoes , threatening neighbour — as Russia almost always had been to Persia . |
| 2 | The new man was soon in contact with Hardwick , who travelled to Stockport to discuss fittings for the School and who presented on 26th July what he probably thought was to be his final report , |
| 3 | All he really wanted was to be next to O ; and you could see that the whole time he was listening , watching . |
| 4 | But what Kenneth really wanted was to be where the action is , on the footplate . |
| 5 | Another lovely walk that the family occasionally took was to West Harnham or as it was known locally ‘ Watery Harnham ’ , a fitting nickname for there was always plenty in the rivers , streams and water meadows . |
| 6 | She too had been to Canonmills and Broughton school ( though she says she was " not very clever " ) and first of all went to work at a draper 's shop in the West End , a job for which she remained still nostalgic . |
| 7 | Since Dysart too had been to Oxford , it was possible that by taking Morpurgo on at Tyler 's Hard he had merely been doing an old chum a favour . |