Example sentences of "[noun] was [verb] [pron] to the " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Ma must have taken to cooking up bits of food in her bedroom , ’ Algy said when Lady Grubb was doing something to the plants and she and Guy were alone with father in his study . |
2 | The tactic used by the Commission for passing the Single European Act was to present it to the member states as if it were the only thing on offer : either take this or leave the Community . |
3 | His pole was impaling her to the absolute limit , and she began panting as if she 'd just run the four-minute mile . |
4 | A Norwegian freedom fighter who knew the area was to take her to the nearby village , after which she was on her own . |
5 | The best man was driving them to the airport for their flight to Greece , and Ellie made sure she was right in the middle of the crowd as they all surged down the front path to wish them bon voyage . |
6 | His first thought was to do something to the Volkswagen Passat . |
7 | There was the Cambridge Rapist in his mask with references to ‘ A Hard Day 's Night ’ — the idea was to link it to the death of The Beatles ' manager , Brian Epstein , during a supposed bout of homosexual S&M . |
8 | By May 1987 McFarlane was describing them to the Baltimore Sun as ‘ incompetent Coca-Cola bottlers and clerks ’ . |
9 | To be seriously concerned with this field was to expose oneself to the possibility of ridicule when it turned out that one had been deceived by a clever confidence trickster ; at best it led to controversy , to results which were suggestive rather than conclusive , and away from those straightforward and answerable questions which since Galileo 's time had been the essence of scientific research . |
10 | You said your Mum was calling you to the kitchen ! |
11 | He was selling Gary Druer from Travel Enterprise rooms at rock-bottom rates , and Gary was retailing them to the client for top whack , trading on our reputation . |
12 | In some haste he drafted a brief manifesto to show how the Conservative Party was adapting itself to the post-Reform Act political scene . |