Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] [adv prt] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Clarke said he understood his staff were simply referred back to a January meeting with Mrs Shephard 's predecessor Michael Howard . |
| 2 | And , yes , I saw the incident at Southampton , where Mark Nicholas was eventually given out to a disputed close catch and then brought back to the crease . |
| 3 | The cause was eventually tracked down to a previously unknown bacterium , given the name Legionella pneumophila . |
| 4 | I had the epidural injection in the base of my spine and then I was all rigged up to a machine so the nurses could monitor the baby 's movements . |
| 5 | Oliver was gently carried in to a bed , and received more care and kindness than he had ever had in his life . |
| 6 | I was aware of the fact that there had been what seemed like 20 people working in the office and then it was suddenly dwindling down to a skeleton staff . |
| 7 | Anyway , I came back into his office and gave him his coffee , and was just getting down to a long bout of conveyancing when the phone in our room rang . |
| 8 | It was like hanging on to a wriggly eel . |
| 9 | The staff was gradually built up to a strength of 460 and , by the end of September 1943 60 planes had been repaired . |
| 10 | Received opinion , based unduly on the word of sister Elisabeth , has it that Nietzsche began with the idea of a large book on Greek culture which , under Wagner 's influence and again its author 's real inclinations , was gradually whittled down to a book on Greek tragedy — and Wagner . |
| 11 | The contract was quickly sold down to a more sustainable 2600 level . |
| 12 | It was also carved on to a number of the walls , as if to ward off Evil . |
| 13 | But as I became more acquainted with this set and stopped rushing from impossible passage to impossible passage , hoping against hope that at some point he would lose his balance and tumble like a second-rate trapeze artist off his swing , I was unwittingly dragged in to a more sinister , melancholic side to his playing . |
| 14 | Apart from the porter , who was now heading back to a door marked Waiting Room , the platform was bare . |
| 15 | The Silmarillion was accordingly held up to a great extent , in Mr Carpenter 's view , by procrastination and bother over inessentials , by crosswords and games of Patience , by drawing heraldic doodles and answering readers ' letters — all compounded , one might add , by the failing energies of age ( see Letters , p. 228 ) . |