Example sentences of "to [pron] was [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1968 it was planned that field staff working in the north of England would be based in the new Scottish headquarters but later , the space originally allocated to them was given to the Marine Geophysics Unit . |
| 2 | To them was given dominion over the world , and all the created beauty of earth was theirs to hold as regents and stewards of God 's kingship . |
| 3 | To them was born another child , Malekith , who was to become the most hated of Elves . |
| 4 | A memorial to them was unveiled in St Andrew 's Church there 22 years ago , Mrs Marsden being then a member of the memorial committee . |
| 5 | The fact that the amount due to them was disputed meant that it was uncertain whether they had reached the point beyond which they might be considered trespassers by dealing with B and L's goods . |
| 6 | Two people who are planning to leave our organization , and the purpose of talking to them was to say , oh , what 's the problem ? |
| 7 | There seemed little alternative , with a woman whose reaction to them was to tolerate — and to laugh . |
| 8 | This convention , re-negotiated in 1980 and 1985 , provided greater aid to the Third World states , but its value to them was limited by the effects of inflation and the restrictions on agricultural trade with Europe caused by CAP . |
| 9 | To them was ordained the task of shaping the social matrix within which ordinary men had their being . |
| 10 | To them was ordained the sacred task of finding balance . |
| 11 | Shortly before the 1927 Cup final , a series of bars with a football tied to them was installed in the St John 's College training ground adjacent to the club , so that players could practise kicking at the bars and trapping the ball as it rebounded at awkward angles . |
| 12 | The first reference to them was contained in the Annual Borrowing Report dated 4 January 1988 . |
| 13 | America 's loyalty to them was going to be interpreted , the players insisted , as a token of its loyalty to allies everywhere : certainly to rebel groups in Asia and Africa , perhaps even , North thought , to NATO . |
| 14 | I needed you so badly and all you ever did to me was cut me down at the knees . ’ |
| 15 | A guy next to me was nudging his friend and pointing at the trees . |
| 16 | ‘ I was sent home because the girl next to me was smoking , ’ said Amy . |
| 17 | ‘ My lord 's letter to me was headed simply : Upper Chamber , The Garden Tower . |
| 18 | In one of them a short note to me was enclosed . |
| 19 | About the most exciting thing that happened to me was knocking some ink over . |
| 20 | They threw him out of college because of cocaine , and he was damn lucky that they did n't call the police , but all he 'd say to me was to stay cool ! |
| 21 | I felt as though I was being hung , drawn and quartered for my past , and the only way to live with what was happening to me was to try desperately to provoke some emotional reaction in you . |
| 22 | And when I left them , the thing that had seemed so horrible to me was transformed into happiness of body and soul for me . " |
| 23 | I looked at the faces ; the man on the bench next to me was talking to himself . |
| 24 | One thing that I always wanted not to happen to me was to become like a TV cameraman who goes home to watch TV and says , ‘ Aw , look at that lighting , ’ or something trivial that really has nothing to do with the actual story . |
| 25 | But what they did to me was give me a metronome and a theme which you play in quicker and quicker note values : triplets , eighths , sixteenths , and so on . |
| 26 | No golf at all was reported in 1916 and it is probable that next to nothing was played . |
| 27 | Lehzen came to England , after service in the aristocratic family of von Marenholtz , in December 1819 as governess to Princess Féodore , daughter ( by her first marriage ) of Princess Victoria of Leiningen , since 1818 Duchess of Kent , to whom was born , shortly before Lehzen 's arrival , the future Queen Victoria . |
| 28 | When he read from Mr Thackeray 's Book of Snobs , choosing the ‘ Great City Snob ’ as his text , imitating the while Sir Thomas 's mannerism of impatiently snapping his fingers and clasping his lapel , followed by his grave walk , hands behind back , no one had had the least doubt as to whom was meant . |
| 29 | Yes , when I got home at night I I was er I had to I was sent to the hospital I was bleeding . |
| 30 | There was , there was a programme on Channel Four there to I was watching before I picked my book up and they had Conservative Labour bloke and the independent er Liberals and these were supposedly they have on on er Channel Four a a programme called Week in Politics anyway this night , this , tonight they were doing a a fu , they had a floating audience , supposedly a floating audience |