Example sentences of "to was " in BNC.
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| 1 | What it came down to was this : if I was going to do anything I was going to have to take on another part-time catering or cleaning job . |
| 2 | The cinema we went to was the Al Washash summer cinema , situated in Baghdad City . |
| 3 | What the dissidents objected to was a cut in the standard rate of benefit . |
| 4 | One of the places he sent it to was Happy Towers in Edgbaston in Birmingham , which was a Mecca ballroom , and that was the first gig we did , complete with a revolving stage and everything . |
| 5 | Maybe the special school he went to was a kind of hospital . |
| 6 | It was being said quite openly on the factory floor that the only place Clasper would lead them to was the end of the dole queue . |
| 7 | What none of the trio could get used to was Evelyn 's continued refusal to make a move to clarify her situation . |
| 8 | ‘ The advice I gave the bench and the decision they rightly came to was for a re-trial . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ One of the people I talked to was a salesman for Allied Dunbar and said they 'd do a great job . |
| 10 | The view that almost everyone except the Commission subscribed to was summed up a few years later by the UN Economic Commission for Europe when it wrote in a report on damage surveys in many countries : ‘ Research results obtained so far indicate that air pollution is an essential , causal factor in the destabilisation of forests or even in the breakdown of some forest ecosystems . ’ |
| 11 | The Bryce he was referring to was the general handyman . |
| 12 | The girl she spoke to was as nice as pie . |
| 13 | This ‘ staff ’ he referred to was , of course , nothing more than the skeleton team of six kept on by Lord Darlington 's relatives to administer to the house up to and throughout the transactions ; and I regret to report that once the purchase had been completed , there was little I could do for Mr Farraday to prevent all but Mrs Clements leaving for other employment . |
| 14 | The first tournament I went to was at Tucson , Arizona , and I became what they call a ‘ parking-lot caddie ’ . |
| 15 | But of course he was right about the trouser bit because Nan had a gay disposition and a very pretty face ; what he would n't admit to was that she brought in a lot of custom at the week-end , especially when there was a boat in and some of the sailors would make their way up from the quayside and spend freely on chocolate or toffee for their girls . |
| 16 | In a prison-camp the world you wanted to get to was visible all the time and , although you did not live in it , you knew that it was only a matter of some barbed wire and a few yards away . |
| 17 | Every now and again people would step neatly aside while the person they were talking to was sick on the floor . |
| 18 | Everyone I spoke to was against the widening of the roads especially the steep pass down into Kinlochewe . |
| 19 | The department I was attached to was fighting an uphill battle against prejudice from the old school clique and the niggardly allowances from the Treasury . |
| 20 | The only thing I could put it down to was his father was a big Mason and he was Freemason on the Bench . |
| 21 | In the case of singular references , the target individual referred to was noted . |
| 22 | The organisation of material once it has been attended to was extensively studied by Gestalt psychologists . |
| 23 | The ‘ indulgent Minister/person ’ referred to was the Curate of the parish kirk and the ‘ true messenger of Jesus Christ ’ was Richard Cameron , a leading Covenanter who , with 8 followers , had been killed by Dragoons on Airds Moss in May , 1680 . |
| 24 | On the fourth day , as the climax , the papingo was — and whoever was first to was called Captain of the archers for the following twelve months . |
| 25 | The quality I 'm referring to was something common enough here in Latin America , but very rare in the land of booze and animal fats , where the women seem to have taken to heart mad Hamlet 's advice to let their honesty admit no discourse to their beauty . |
| 26 | Because what all the fine talk came down to was hard cash . |
| 27 | The room they were taken to was bare , panelled and had a stone floor , but had been hastily equipped with stools and benches and tables for the Patriarch 's visit . |
| 28 | The question is whether the ‘ power ’ referred to was the power to write poetry ; for though the Poems In Two Volumes ( 1807 ) are of high quality they mark for most people the end of Wordsworth 's poetic life . |
| 29 | What all pointed to was the growth of a considerable Wealden timber and brick industry , another attraction for the casual labour for which the area was becoming notorious . |
| 30 | But it is so poorly executed , muddled in its narrative and just plain old-fashioned dull that the screening I went to was soon humming with critical snores . |