Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [adv prt] [adv] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though the Reformation brought an end to Grandison 's college , the medieval college houses were allowed to remain , and the collegiate church , to which a magnificent parish aisle had recently been added , was given over completely to the people of the town . |
| 2 | Other raw material was flown back daily to the CIA in America and here too a special department had to be set up to cope with the volume . |
| 3 | As she was pressed back on to the couch her mind raced madly in protest , but all she managed to bring out in a kind of croak was , ‘ No , Daddy , no . ’ |
| 4 | The next morning — or soon , anyway — Spunk was beamed up on to the bridge of the low-lying spaceship by the mischievous , conical , beep-voiced aliens , who then travelled through time and beamed Spunk down again into Greenwich Village , 1980 . |
| 5 | It disgraced itself on the Cambrian Coast Express some weeks ago and was hauled back ignominiously to the works where a tremendous flap occurred as to who paid for the necessary . |
| 6 | Saturday at sundown it was sold back again to the Reichmanns . |
| 7 | Liam was helped up on to the driving seat by an even grumpier Den and the two women and the reins put into his hand . |
| 8 | Cardiff whirled back to see that Pearce 's face was squashed up close to the glass , still thirty feet from the reception doors ; face contorted , mouth wide and agonised . |
| 9 | In the meantime the ‘ will-they , wo n't they ’ ( move ) scenario was played out right to the death . |
| 10 | The main road was blocked for twenty-five minutes whilst the three-quarter-ton monster was winched out on to the tracks , and cars soon began diverting themselves through the portals of the nearby Methodist Church . |
| 11 | The King 's corpse , together with the saddle and bridle , was brought back here to the castle . ’ |
| 12 | Yussuf was pitched off on to the other side . |
| 13 | The body was thrown off on to the track and the investigators with the exception of Sherlock Holmes were deceived into believing it had fallen from a carriage . |
| 14 | After her coat was thrown down on to the couch , to be followed by the long mud-fringed skirt and tattered voluminous blouse , there appeared before the child a fat woman , a very fat woman , in what seemed to be a clean blue-striped blouse and a long grey skirt with a fringe . |
| 15 | Then , in 1856 , the Empress Eugénie , well suited for the work of conciliation as the Spanish wife of the French Emperor , arranged a treaty whereby the territory was recognized as Spanish but was rented out perpetually to the inhabitants on the French side ; so these are French citizens who farm in Spain . |