Example sentences of "[to-vb] was [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He desperately needed to talk to me , to have me as a confessor if not to obtain my active help , but could not see the way to come to terms with me ; his need to accept was in conflict with his wish to reject . |
| 2 | She held firm because she knew that the road to compromise was without signposts , that the possibilities for getting lost were manifold and that it was paved with flawed imitations of the truth . |
| 3 | Testimony that it continues to flourish was in abundance at its latest three-day manifestation in Worcester College of Higher Education on the theme of Cultures for Change . |
| 4 | But really , what , all they wanted to do was save face from the hospital because it was n't our fault but she used a bit of you know , we wo n't embarrass the hospital we 'll say |
| 5 | The other bearers took the traditional view that the right thing to do was for Yussuf to get rid of her and find another one ; but for reasons known only to himself Yussuf was reluctant to do this . |
| 6 | So far so good ; now all I had to do was to muck up my second throw and ‘ Jaz ’ would be the winner . |
| 7 | Within months , Scargill 's warnings of substantial pit closures were transformed into reality : the NUM was unable to resist — with most of its members at the affected pits rapidly opting for the generous redundancy terms — and with the privatization of the electricity-generating industry at the end of the 1980s the ability of many British mines to compete was in question ; closures were instituted even in the more productive fields . |
| 8 | This led to a good deal of overlapping and interdepartmental rivalry , notably between the foreign and war offices : propaganda in the neutral states which it was most important to influence was in fact carried on largely by the British diplomatic missions there , often supported by groups of expatriates and local anglophiles . |
| 9 | A French housewife recently thought that she had discovered the world 's first metal potato — until she realised that the object she was trying to peel was in fact a Second World War hand grenade , which had probably been scooped up by a potato picking machine before it found its way into her groceries . |
| 10 | Now the other question I was just going to ask was on appendix er erm it 's oh yes here we are appendix five bottom of page two and it 's talking about the condition of people on the higher rates to residential homes in the area . |
| 11 | The cheapest way to go was via Colombo and so I dropped in on the local centre there . |
| 12 | The respondents may therefore recover whatever sum they may be able to prove was in excess of such a charge as would have avoided undue discrimination against them . |
| 13 | The furthest anyone has had to travel was to Los Angeles and back , all in forty-eight hours , to persuade the reclusive Harrison Ford to appear on the show . |
| 14 | First though he had to make sure that the person he burned to confront was in fact there . |