Example sentences of "and [noun prp] [was/were] [verb] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Government were defeated that evening by 72 votes and MacDonald was summoned to the Palace next day . |
| 2 | Baldwin at once resigned as Prime Minister and MacDonald was summoned to the palace . |
| 3 | By the time Richard and Murray were called to the headmaster 's study a sheaf of publications headlining the incident were laid out on the large drum table . |
| 4 | On June 17-22 , 20,000 dependents of US service personnel based at Clark and Subic were evacuated to the United States , leaving behind 15,000 US military personnel ; on June 21 , 4,500 US airmen were evacuated overseas from Subic Bay . |
| 5 | The earldoms granted by Edward III in 1337 were all granted in tail male , and in the course of the century the earldoms of Oxford , Warwick , Arundel and Surrey were surrendered to the king and regranted in tail male . |
| 6 | Dr. Goldsmith did n't want to certify the man at first , but later relented , and Sabey was sent to the asylum . |
| 7 | Daddy and Neil were going to the |
| 8 | The debt problem was solved by someone he hardly knew paying his debt and Seawright was elected to the Assembly where he turned out to be a thorn in the DUP 's flesh . |
| 9 | How far Marx and Engels were wedded to the idea is not clear and Engels did note that this sequence did not apply to the New World . |
| 10 | United Sabah National Organization ( USNO , Sakaran Bin Dandai pres. ) ; the Sabah-based AKAR and LDP were admitted to the BN in July 1991 [ see p. 38344 ] . |
| 11 | In the following year Malta and Constantinople were added to the number . |
| 12 | A number of Royalist prisoners from the civil wars in England and Ireland were transported to the sugar islands in the 1650s as convict labour with the prospect of eventual release to become part of the white garrison , but this barely covered the losses from death and emigration . |
| 13 | The more the eyes of Canada and Australia and England were directed to the train , the more Filmer might want to discredit it . |
| 14 | One day Victoria and Alexander were called to the drawing room after tea and saw a strange woman in a dress printed with yellow lemons sitting on the fender beside their father . |
| 15 | Mary came in , sat briefly with Alice , said she and Reggie were going to the cinema . |
| 16 | He was given a great welcome by the waiters and Jane was introduced to the Maître in person . |
| 17 | Nyerere stood down as CCM chairman on Aug. 17 , 1990 , and Mwinyi was elected to the post in his place . |
| 18 | However , the competition was not asleep , and LIFFE was pipped to the post on Italian bond futures by the Paris MATIF exchange , more on which later . |
| 19 | On the second day of the UN-enforced air boycott , Tripoli radio said envoys from France , Germany , Italy , Sweden , Belgium , Czechoslovakia and Japan were summoned to the Foreign Ministry and told some of their number would be expelled . |
| 20 | The endearments and other noises which followed made it quite clear that Yorick and Cyril were exploring to the full the dramatic possibilities of a reconciliation scene . |
| 21 | Just before the clock struck five the next morning , Gabriel and Coggan were walking to the hayfields past their mistress 's house , when they saw a surprising sight . |