Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] was [verb] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sally-Anne never knew precisely how she did it , but the next moment the shorter one was speaking to Rose , and the taller one had his wandering eye on a shrinking Sally-Anne , who was too confused to do more than understand that the Mashers were agreeing to buy supper for Rose and herself — in exchange for what ? |
| 2 | Since Daniel agreed with this he was reduced to silence . |
| 3 | Feast day in Bellerby used to be the Wednesday after Whitsunday , but in 1933 it was moved to Whit Monday as people no longer had a holiday on this day . |
| 4 | In June 1881 he was recalled to Dublin and put in charge of the RIC 's crime division , with the task of both preventing and solving politically inspired crime . |
| 5 | William remained close to Edward II after his accession , being retained as part of the king 's household ; and in 1310–11 he was sent to Gascony as one of English commissioners at the process of Perigueux . |
| 6 | In 1879 he was sent to England to oversee the European side of the business , and settled in Cheshire within easy reach of the textile mills of Lancashire where he placed a lot of business . |
| 7 | I 'm afraid he was sentenced to death yesterday . ’ |
| 8 | On that first day I had little thought to spare for Parma itself , but gradually I came to realize how fortunate I was to go to school in a city that was both beautiful and intensely interesting . |
| 9 | In 1924 she was promoted to chief of that section and in 1935 she published Labour in Agriculture , an International Survey . |
| 10 | At the age of nineteen he was apprenticed to Isambard K. Brunel [ q.v. ] who employed him on the Thames tunnel and on some sections of the Great Western Railway . |
| 11 | On 11 May 1991 he was taken to hospital suffering from 18 bruises and a bite mark . |
| 12 | In 1929 he was recalled to Rome to take part — with his lawyer brother — in the final negotiations over the Lateran Treaty . |
| 13 | In 1582 and 1586 he served Leicester in the Netherlands and later in 1586 he was returned to Parliament for Callington , Cornwall . |
| 14 | On 4 July 1992 when she was 34 weeks ' pregnant she was admitted to hospital following a road traffic accident . |
| 15 | G. Hare , D.S.C. , who takes up the story of the preparations : ‘ In mid April 1941 I was called to London for a secret verbal appointment and interviewed by Rear-Admiral Clement Moody , the Fifth Sea Lord ( he had been my Captain in ‘ Eagle ’ ) . |
| 16 | Then came the Queen , now the Queen Mum , who said how thrilled she was to speak to Francis . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , in June 1626 he was introduced to George Villiers , first Duke of Buckingham [ q.v. ] , who had him knighted and appointed KC on the council of the north . |
| 18 | First of all I was invited to lunch in Leeds and they sent the helicopter for me , piloted by Captain John Leeson , who had done all the flying for the aerial shots in the film . |
| 19 | The Third Programme 's elitist appeal ( as it would now be called ) to a minority ‘ whose tastes , education and mental habits enable them to take pleasure in close and responsive listening to broadcasts of artistic and intellectual distinction ’ ( Annan , 1977 , p. 12 ) was so limited that in 1957 it was confined to weekday evenings and weekends from 2.30 onwards . |
| 20 | During 1521 he was admitted to membership of the Fraternity or Guild of St Nicholas , London — the guild of the parish clerks of the city 's parish churches , augmented by the professional musicians employed in the parish and other churches of London and its immediate neighbourhood . |
| 21 | During this period he contracted to serve Edward for life and from 1317 he was summoned to Parliament . |
| 22 | In 1811 it was transferred to Hackney Road in north London . |
| 23 | In 1902 he was transferred to Dehra Dun , and in 1905 became the first imperial mycologist at the new agricultural research station at Pusa . |
| 24 | In 1847 he was apprenticed to John Inshaw , who had a small engineering business in Birmingham . |
| 25 | The details of his early life are not known , but by 1450 he was apprenticed to Robert Botiller , a goldsmith in London , and by 1458 had become a lowys ( the term used in the records of the Goldsmiths ' Company to describe someone allowed to practise the craft ) . |
| 26 | Rapid promotion to counsellor followed , and in 1958 he was sent to Malta as adviser on press and public relations to the Governor , who had had trouble with Mintoff . |
| 27 | In 1638 he was admitted to Lincoln 's Inn , a late admission suggesting a serious interest in the law . |
| 28 | From the early days he seems to have become involved in trade-union activities , and for his part in the Manchester strike of 1818 he was sent to prison for two years in 1819 . |
| 29 | In 1820 he was sent to Fort Augustus , where the locks of the Caledonian canal were under construction , and , as his father was well known to everyone there , he was given the opportunity of learning not only masonry but all the branches of civil and mechanical engineering that were being practised at that time . |
| 30 | Although the Shurmur family retained ownership , in 1706 it was leased to Edward Yeate , who was later replaced by his son , still engaged in cloth manufacture in the latter half of the 18th century . |