Example sentences of "[noun prp] was [verb] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marie was wading up to the path through waist-high reeds : ‘ Look at the state of my clothes ! ’ |
| 2 | The following morning Richard was taken down to the treatment room and given his first induction of air . |
| 3 | And at the same time , Lilian was coming up to the second stage . |
| 4 | The lights went down further , and I guessed Kruger was working up to the big climax , whatever that was . |
| 5 | Substitute Warzycha was forced on to the field after only ten minutes after Ward was stretchered off . |
| 6 | And so it was that Luch was taken up to the castle for the second time . |
| 7 | The English response was ineffective : the campaigns of the 1340s and 1350s had been essentially plundering raids , launched into enemy territory from secure bases ; but after 1369 England was thrown on to the defensive in Aquitaine , and she had little idea how to fight a defensive war . |
| 8 | The Peugeot was pushed on to the other side of the road and was in collision with a Sierra driven by Leslie Green , of Runcorn , Cheshire , who was travelling in the opposite direction . |
| 9 | Security sources said Major George Serhal was handed over to the former Lebanese president , Suleiman Franjieh . |
| 10 | In September 1990 W. was referred back to the clinic which had seen her three years before and began sessions with a clinical psychologist . |
| 11 | The fastest way to talk to Grosvenor Square was to get back to the third floor . |
| 12 | Matthew was sent off to the yard , but Riddle was n't there and Matthew reckoned he had n't been there . ’ |
| 13 | Beattie was taken back to the cell and shortly afterwards brought down to the main police office where the other men who had been arrested were being assembled . |
| 14 | Maureen was getting on to the museum about bringing an expert to have a look at the place . ’ |
| 15 | Soon after arriving at Marshall Malinovsky 's headquarters in Debrezcin on 17 January 1945 , Wallenberg was handed over to the NKVD , the predecessor of the KGB , and disappeared . |
| 16 | In 1948 a certain M. ( Micky ) K. Watson was elected on to the committee , beginning a special relationship with the Club that was to last some 30 years and prove instrumental in its recovery , simultaneously adding significantly to the quality of both the Club 's social and golfing amenities . |
| 17 | Even though Geoff Cooke was appointed through to the World Cup , his was only a yearly ‘ contract ’ , and his position was reviewed by the RFU each year . |
| 18 | Following graduation from Lufkin High School , Garrett was enlisted in to the US Navy for the duration of the Korean conflict . |
| 19 | In his post-election Cabinet reshuffle Sandys was sent back to the Ministry of Supply to use his undoubted energies to create the much needed Ministry of Aviation . |
| 20 | Eastcote was handed over to the military and the German seamen , after a temporary stay at the Alexandra Palace , were condemned to live behind barbed wire and fixed bayonets ; Alton Abbey had already been closed . |
| 21 | Born in 1754 , Murdock was brought up to the trade of his father who was a millwright and miller . |
| 22 | It was then that the private ambulance arrived from the clinic on the outskirts of the city , and Ahn was stretchered out to the waiting vehicle . |
| 23 | William completed his five-year stay in Clerkenwell successfully ; by the time it was over his brother Benjamin James was already down in Somerset and Charles Frederick was coming up to the age when he , too , would become an apprentice . |
| 24 | So bad that Noreen was called in to the Stage Manager 's office one morning . |
| 25 | Blake was beckoned over to the stranger . |
| 26 | Cheryl 's three words were hardly finished before Angela was racing back to the farmhouse shouting at the top of her voice . |
| 27 | Evelyn was dressed up to the nines . |
| 28 | He continued until 1965 , when the NCLC was handed over to the TUC . |
| 29 | He continued as secretary until 1965 , when the NCLC was handed over to the TUC . |
| 30 | If Patrick was sent back to the hospital he might be temporarily revived , but only briefly and perhaps in some damaged state . |