Example sentences of "[verb] and [was/were] [verb] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The incomes of these basic organizations thereafter belonged to the area in which they were located and were lost to the parent organization . |
| 2 | On this visit , Mr Weir , the mate , is said to have become entangled in the buoy rope when the anchor was being dropped and was dragged to the bottom and drowned . |
| 3 | At the global scale numerical modelling has developed and was applied to the planetary boundary layer , facilitated by the development of powerful computers used in short-range forecasting research , and then in the construction of general circulation models and thence models of global climate . |
| 4 | He turned to leave and was frozen to the spot . |
| 5 | She asked where Topaz could be found and was directed to the barn . |