Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pers pn] [vb past] [be] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I went and sat in a field and experienced that great bubbling up of love for the Father and for Jesus which I expressed alternately in English and in this new language which I did not understand but which I knew was to be addressed to God and which built me up as I used it . |
| 2 | Since the existing rules applied to a serf-based society , suspending them implied that the social order on which they depended was to be altered . |
| 3 | The last time the hon. Member for Sedgefield ( Mr. Blair ) expressed his concerns , he gave a list of our programmes which he said were to be destroyed and eliminated . |
| 4 | This was a soft seduction of her senses , a sensuous reminder of what they had been to each other and what they had lost . |
| 5 | She was able to let him go as he was now because she had clarified and confirmed what he had been to her . |
| 6 | ‘ Sealed envelope with Mme Wyatt , ’ he replied , laying an uncharacteristic finger against his nose as if this was what he 'd been to spy-school for . |
| 7 | He shot her a grin and she thought of what he 'd been to her in the last week and a half . |
| 8 | What he wanted was to be as dirty as the miners , covered in coal-dust like them . |
| 9 | The essence of European diplomacy was still political , still what it had been to Metternich or even to Richelieu . |