Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] [vb past] be [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Father wanted someone to inherit who knew Venice and had been taught the business , someone who 'd been trained to the position . ’ |
| 2 | He sat up and gave her a quick smile which she supposed was meant to be reassuring . |
| 3 | The room in which we lunched was referred to as the ‘ salon ’ . |
| 4 | These components were , therefore , far more representative of the structure of G-BEBP than two brand new units would have been ; indeed the period in which they had been subjected to the stresses and strains of flight was remarkably similar to that of the accident aircraft . |
| 5 | Mr Shrigley said two of the women had died from the serious illnesses for which they had been admitted to the hospital . |
| 6 | It was common form for converts who had led relatively blameless lives to condemn , as Newton did , ‘ the impiety and profaneness ’ of their unregenerate days ; but in his case there were the hard facts of his voyages in slave ships to the West Coast of Africa , on one of which he had been abandoned to his fate and only rescued through a combination of circumstances that indeed seemed to be almost miraculous . |
| 7 | The book which he wrote was circulated to the English universities and he then became a member of a mission to Italy to press the divorce on the Pope . |
| 8 | Although an indefinite curfew was reimposed in Srinagar after the assassination , thousands of people took to the streets as Farooq 's body was carried from the hospital to which it had been taken to his home . |
| 9 | Whereupon the partying Ninevites , just like Jonah inside the whale , repented ; whereupon God decided after all to spare the city ; whereupon Jonah became incredibly irritated , which was only normal in one who 'd been put to a lot of trouble to bring the message of destruction , only for the Lord , despite a well-known , indeed historic taste for wrecking cities , to turn round and change his mind . |
| 10 | Then , in her attempt to experience more closeness to her husband and to drive him to understand what she felt like but could not make conscious or put into words , she did to him what had been done to her . |
| 11 | Some time later Philip wrote to say that , although he had not put his own name forward for consideration , he himself had been invited to be the official biographer and had accepted . |
| 12 | She spoke to the prince , she even looked at the prince , but what she said was addressed to the man who sat withdrawn at the prince 's elbow . |
| 13 | And when she reflected , as she frequently did , upon what she had been bred to , she was profoundly puzzled by her own origins . |
| 14 | Its sign consisted of a portrait of a woman 's head , styled in what she guessed was intended to be Tudor fashion . |
| 15 | But this was a great feeling of what we had been used to over the years in watching American movies and , with our tongue in cheek and a bit of a giggle , seeing the adventures of the cavalry arriving , And for the first time in our years of combat I had a glow , a rosy glow , inside me and I knew and was certain for the very first time now we could not be beaten . |
| 16 | The importance of living up to what was required by one 's status and what one had been used to came out over and over again in the discussions of the time , and ‘ prudence ’ became a moral imperative in the process of becoming axiomatic in the 1830s and 1840s . |
| 17 | in the end she took the children home with her , erm it was so different from what they 'd been used to in those erm |
| 18 | The ammunition was soft-nosed , not what he 'd been used to but the only kind that was allowed for hunting . |