Example sentences of "[noun] was [verb] [adv prt] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her glance was drawn back to the bed again when , clearly befuddled , and with no idea how he came to be where he was , he slurred , ‘ How did I get here ? ’ |
| 2 | At that time the tax that banks deducted from interest payments to depositors was passed on to the taxmen each quarter . |
| 3 | Marie was wading up to the path through waist-high reeds : ‘ Look at the state of my clothes ! ’ |
| 4 | The RAF 's Vulcan XH558 bomber was handed over to the Walton family by the station commander at RAF Waddington , Lincolnshire . |
| 5 | Miroslav Stepan , former Communist Party secretary in Prague , was sentenced on Oct. 22 to 30 months ' imprisonment following confirmation by an appeal court of his July conviction on charges of abuse of power connected with the suppression of a Prague demonstration on Oct. 28 , 1988 ; a second charge relating to a January 1989 demonstration was referred back to the Prosecutor 's Office [ for his conviction and initial sentence of four years ' imprisonment see p. 37737 ] . |
| 6 | The following morning Richard was taken down to the treatment room and given his first induction of air . |
| 7 | Undoubtedly Richard was handed over to a wet-nurse . |
| 8 | When the last goodbyes and blessings on him had been murmured by the ladies , two dimmed lanterns were provided by Mrs Prynn the housekeeper , and the priest was led down to the kitchens and into the stables , under the floor of which a tunnel led steeply down to the shore . |
| 9 | Following the other girl 's fixed gaze , Anita noticed that a large black chauffeur-driven limousine was drawing up to the edge of the road . |
| 10 | The new minibus was handed over to the school yesterday in a ceremony attended by governors and members of the Eastbourne Parent Teachers Association . |
| 11 | The intention was to hand over to a new social democratic party and a younger generation of leaders less tainted with the communist past . |
| 12 | And at the same time , Lilian was coming up to the second stage . |
| 13 | A health board spokesman said the wages ' computer tape was handed over to the Clydesdale Bank on Wednesday , as normal , which would have allowed processing of the £1,360,000 wage bill in time for withdrawal yesterday . |
| 14 | This telegram was sent on to the Prime Minister 's office in London and on 29 April Winston Churchill ruled [ HP 41 ] that all anti-partisans ( including by inference " Croats " and " Slovenian White Guards " who were mentioned to Churchill in an accompanying minute by Sir Orme Sargent ) should , as Stevenson urged , " be disarmed and placed in refugee camps " . |
| 15 | The lights went down further , and I guessed Kruger was working up to the big climax , whatever that was . |
| 16 | Substitute Warzycha was forced on to the field after only ten minutes after Ward was stretchered off . |
| 17 | The only other alternative was to go back to the cottage , as well he 'd known . |
| 18 | The goat 's mask figure was lowered on to the chair . |
| 19 | A tricky wind was blowing on to the anchorage and what with snakes and the prospect of getting wet I lay off for lunch . |
| 20 | The bug was traced back to the Farmoor treatment works which only started supplying Swindon from last August . |
| 21 | After this the heifer was knocked down to the plaintiff . |
| 22 | A weak sun was rising off to the east over the distant buildings and its pale light was filtering through the branches of the trees about him . |
| 23 | The ore was taken down to the lake , boated down to Nibthwaite , carted from thence to Penny Bridge or Greenodd , ( the latter was quite a busy small port ) from where it was shipped to the Macclesfield Co's. smelters at Liverpool . |
| 24 | Then Wickham was invited through to a back room and a telephone . |
| 25 | His debt gathering work was handed over to a colleague once the legal aspects of it had been sorted out . |
| 26 | The cathedral was begun by Russian architects in 1471 but part of the building collapsed in the earthquake of 1472 so the work was handed over to an Italian architect and engineer , Aristotele Fioravanti from Bologna . |
| 27 | ‘ A great deal of time and effort has gone into ensuring that all materials and finishes co-ordinate effectively and that the work was carried out to the highest possible standards , befitting a grand old Bank , ’ said Tony Caroli , Property Project Manager . |
| 28 | And so it was that Luch was taken up to the castle for the second time . |
| 29 | So the flask was handed over to a nice woman who would fill it with soup , probably ‘ potage de Jean-Claude speciale au tomat de can ’ , in the morning . |
| 30 | 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 . |