Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] [pron] was [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | he bought a flat do he had to go where he was getting , aye , more money , and then again as I say if he was ill he would get his pay for so long . |
| 2 | He poured himself more whisky , pressing Herr Nordern to have another , too , and saying that he was leading the Norderns into bad ways but that they must forgive him as it was n't very often they saw him , ha ! ha ! and Herr Nordern , while not prepared to accept that he was led by anyone except the leaders of his country , took the whisky , thinking , what the devil , he had worked like a dog all day , and it was true , Karl would not be with them much longer and they would probably never see him again and , he had to confess , he would n't mind if he never saw him again as long as either of them lived . |
| 3 | Neither of us mentioned it : it would have been intolerable for either of us to accept that he was losing his grip . |
| 4 | Much as she loved Nora , she was sufficiently realistic about her cousin to know that whatever was beginning to develop in her niece would be much more likely to come to something if Constance remained with her in Surrey than if she returned to the north . |
| 5 | NAM 's Public Relations Officer , Howard Heeley , said that while the Museum were sorry to see the Mk 4 go , it was more than pleasing to know that it was intended to fly it again . |
| 6 | You do n't want to know that she was wearing odd socks and one of them was green , it 's |
| 7 | She did n't even want people to know that she was living there . |
| 8 | He was perceptive enough to know that she was suffering from some sort of emotional wound that had nothing to do with him . |
| 9 | He was too intelligent not to know that she was reassuring him . |
| 10 | To know that she was needed by someone gave her a heady sense of power . |
| 11 | Maggie Byrne was a woman with plenty of love to give , and the best stimulus of all was to know that she was needed . |
| 12 | ‘ But , more than that , she seemed to want everyone to know that she was sitting with somebody other than her husband . |
| 13 | Certainly the Pentagon knows it 's already under investigation , but Hawkins did n't want anyone to know that he was pointing fingers in certain directions . |
| 14 | It was his great satisfaction in retirement to know that he was held in deep affection by many hundreds of students who were fortunate enough to come under his caring influence . ’ |
| 15 | It is good to know that he was thought so highly of and that we have so many friends . |
| 16 | . And then as we were beating you see , inside , through the bushes and all , and a pheasant got up , and we used to shout , , do you see , for them to know that he was coming . |
| 17 | Alice Conway almost jumped back into her kitchen as her daughter swung round now and yelled at her , ‘ It may surprise you to know that I was thinking about you and Father and this house , and the business downstairs . |
| 18 | No need for him to know that I was watching at the window . |
| 19 | During which time I found that at the worst all Englishmen stuck together in regard to the West Indians … it was like a thorn in my heels to know that I was working in an atmosphere of hostility . |
| 20 | On 14 October Coleridge wrote abstractedly to John Thelwall that , ‘ I should much wish , like the Indian Vishna , to float about along an infinite ocean cradled in the flower of the Lotos , & wake once in a million years for a few minutes — just to know that I was going to sleep a million years more . ’ |
| 21 | It was a tall , thin , almost clownlike man with large destroyed teeth in a long mobile face who was the unlikely source of so commanding a voice ; and it was a relief to find that it was directed not at us , but at our surrounding mob . |
| 22 | ‘ Oh , look ! ’ she whispered in an awed kind of voice , and flicked a glance from the squirrel to Ven , to find that he was looking — at her ! |
| 23 | She looked at him warily to find that he was regarding her with unprecedented tenderness . |
| 24 | When Allen at last found a crevice secure enough to trust to he looked over to find that he was peering into the little courtyard onto the rain-wet backs of the dejected horses . |
| 25 | To check his wandering thoughts he started to ask her to resume her labours elsewhere and finish the surgery when he had completed his own tasks in it — Only to find that she was hopping gently from foot to foot , and was bursting to ask him a question . |
| 26 | Erika was surprised to find that she was beginning to like Bach . |
| 27 | It was a surprise to find that she was beginning to feel the same way about it herself . |
| 28 | He kissed her again and was surprised to find that she was crying gently . |
| 29 | She shrugged and looked away , to indicate that she was backing off . |
| 30 | I responded as usual by smiling slightly — sufficient at least to indicate that I was participating in some way with the good-humouredness with which he was carrying on — and waited to see if my employer 's permission regarding the trip would be forthcoming . |