Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] was [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | What occurred after I left was related to me by the men of the village , when I paid the district a second visit some months later . |
| 2 | Its sign consisted of a portrait of a woman 's head , styled in what she guessed was intended to be Tudor fashion . |
| 3 | Then , gripping her lips firmly together , because whatever else she said was bound to be wrong , Ellie continued to stare at Phena in horror and worry . |
| 4 | The last thing she said was addressed to Bodie . |
| 5 | She spoke to the prince , she even looked at the prince , but what she said was addressed to the man who sat withdrawn at the prince 's elbow . |
| 6 | The choice of literature , as you realize was meant to be contrasting , and I put book down as an example of what I thought was the worst possible , er , use of use of psychoanalysis , kind of gutter journalism , erm and which you did n't look at , and it 's , it 's no criticism of you erm , because er , you had your work cut out with what you did do , but the reason I put down Gandhi 's Truth , if anybody 's ever read that , have they ? |
| 7 | He sat up and gave her a quick smile which she supposed was meant to be reassuring . |
| 8 | The room in which we lunched was referred to as the ‘ salon ’ . |
| 9 | All the other experience that he devoured was put to the one obsessing activity . |
| 10 | An extra charge of one shilling ( 5p ) was made for permission to view the house , and the £5,500 it made was added to the Queen 's charitable fund . |
| 11 | But the five-shot lead he created was trimmed to a manageable three shots for today 's third round which the English Ryder Cup man starts on a 13-under-par total of 131 . |
| 12 | A YOUTH who inflicted what a sheriff described yesterday as an appalling gaping face wound on a teenager he slashed was ordered to be detained for 15 months in a young offenders ' institution . |
| 13 | It is , indeed , doubtful how much help Gloucester could have commanded explicitly in order to take the throne : some , almost certainly , but much ( if not most ) of the backing he enjoyed was given to the protector for the maintenance of stability — a distinction of which Gloucester himself seems not to have been fully conscious . |
| 14 | It is , indeed , doubtful how much help Gloucester could have commanded explicitly in order to take the throne : some , almost certainly , but much ( if not most ) of the backing he enjoyed was given to the protector for the maintenance of stability — a distinction of which Gloucester himself seems not to have been fully conscious . |
| 15 | For someone who , according to Naylor 's belief , should be sorely upset that the woman he loved was engaged to another , Travis was coping exceedingly well . |
| 16 | He could n't threaten the Soviet Union directly because the Soviet Union was a nuclear power and could n't be threatened er so the course of action he took was intended to be moderate and to secure the objective solely of removing the missiles from Cuba , not of doing anything about the Cuban government or the regime or anything of that sort . |
| 17 | He could n't threaten the Soviet Union directly because the Soviet Union was a nuclear power and could n't be threatened er so the course of action he took was intended to be moderate and to secure the objective solely of removing the missiles from Cuba , not of doing anything about the Cuban government or the regime or anything of that sort . |
| 18 | A mahogany bookcase and the books it contained was left to Anne ‘ with gratitude for our long friendship ’ and a Sheraton occasional table to ‘ our good neighbour Mrs Fitzgerald ’ . |
| 19 | What small political influence it possessed was confined to the immediate post-war years of social tension , inflation and unemployment . |
| 20 | 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 . |