Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] was [verb] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ross had been adamant that no wife of his was going to work . |
| 2 | Blake left the navy in 1947 with an excellent report on his work , a copy of which was sent to General Gerald Templer , Director of Military Intelligence at the War Office . |
| 3 | It was decided to build a huge central market , the construction of which was entrusted to Baltard , a man who was as much an engineer as an architect , on a site which had existed since the reign of Napoleon I. Succeeding regimes had neither had the will nor the drive to carry out the project as originally planned , but the Emperor was determined that this new market should be one of the earliest major building projects of his reign . |
| 4 | Nivelle Elite , who all sired some excellent stock , some of which was exported to Australia and at the time of writing , has taken Best in Show at Club Championship Show level . |
| 5 | Consequently he was in a ferocious temper when he got into his room and saw a mound of mail on his desk , half of which was addressed to Steinmark . |
| 6 | Their Lancastrian sympathies had resulted in the forfeiture of their land early in the 1460s , when much of it was granted to Gloucester , but the de Veres had subsequently reached an accommodation with the new regime and had regained their land before Gloucester came of age . |
| 7 | Their Lancastrian sympathies had resulted in the forfeiture of their land early in the 1460s , when much of it was granted to Gloucester , but the de Veres had subsequently reached an accommodation with the new regime and had regained their land before Gloucester came of age . |
| 8 | For The Silmarillion at least , though not published till 1977 , four years after its author 's death , was in existence as a ‘ narrative structure ’ not long after the First World War , while a version of it was submitted to George Allen & Unwin for publication forty years before it eventually came out . |
| 9 | However , in the years when the population of Ireland was halved through starvation , disease and emigration , we learned that there had been food ; eggs and beef , grain , butter and pork , but that much of it was exported to England to pay rents . |
| 10 | The reality of what was happening to John either played on people 's own experience of terrible loss and final separation , or the fear of it , which haunts us all . |
| 11 | Of course , months earlier , I had dully taken on the likelihood of major upheaval , on account of what was happening to John 's skin . |
| 12 | Our understanding of what was happening to party politics under William and Anne can only be complete when we consider the wider world outside Westminster , which will be the subject of the following chapter . |
| 13 | Previously , the ‘ volume ’ plans — that is , plans at constant prices — were regarded by spending managers as entitlements , carried forward from year to year regardless of what was happening to costs . |
| 14 | Previously , the ‘ volume ’ plans — that is , plans in constant prices — were regarded by spending managers as entitlements , carried forward from year to year regardless of what was happening to costs . |
| 15 | The Wren immediately before her was assigned to Appledore , in Devon ; the one behind her to Aultbea , in the far north-west ; but for Wren Kendal it had been HMS Omega and the Wrens ' quarters at Ardneavie . |
| 16 | Medusa was the Queen and so hideous was her face that anyone who looked upon it was turned to stone . |
| 17 | Something about him was beginning to needle her , challenging her to meet him on his own terms . |
| 18 | Punctuation , spelling and the layout of ensembles have also been systematised according to what was set to music . |
| 19 | If we think of He sent a letter about it to Galileo the great Italian scientist as the target sentence , the kinds of changes which Sachs introduced when the sentence was repeated were either semantic — Galileo the great Italian scientist sent him a letter about it or syntactic — A letter about it was sent to Galileo the great Italian scientist / He sent Galileo the great Italian scientist a letter about it . |
| 20 | now unfortunately at page forty two there 's a sticker originally that says forty two , but just let's look at that shall we ? , cos you were asked about what was said to people and what they might know or understand , while these particulars are prepared with all due care and the word that 's been stuck over is convenience while these particulars are prepared with all due care for the convenience of intended purchases , the information contained therein is intended as a preliminary guide only |
| 21 | It was n't just us ; we were both concerned about what was happening to girls in YTP because this conference today is talking about training and employment and so many of the young girls in West Belfast , the girls who are not going on to third level education , go into YTP . |
| 22 | She could n't bear to remember the dreadful things she had said that day , any more than she could think about what was happening to Maggie now . |
| 23 | She felt bad about what was happening to Joe . |
| 24 | Maybe there were similarities between what was happening to Dad , with his discovery of Eastern philosophy , and Anwar 's last stand . |
| 25 | And so if we look at what was happening to income at that time , we find that the disposable income , meaning the amount of money we have to spend on other things after we 've bought essentials , that figure rose by only one and a half percent throughout this period . |
| 26 | Bristol Deaf Centre took a very near miss when much of the square around it was reduced to rubble in a heavy air-raid . |