Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] was [verb] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My heart was given to Tommy Steele , " Rock with the Cavemen " and " Elevator Rock " . |
| 2 | my mum was talking to Robin |
| 3 | A : My father was converted to Communism when I was eight . |
| 4 | In August 1918 my father was recalled to London to report to the Foreign Office and he did not get back until mid-December . |
| 5 | My father was sent to hell-fire on the sixth of Rabi ! ’ |
| 6 | They lived in a house in the Terrace , and eventually my father was sent to Ampleforth in Yorkshire , a Benedictine monastery which also ran a boarding school . |
| 7 | The first teacher I had in the infants was a Miss , she had a bad habit of rapping you across the knuckles with a ruler , and there was a pupil teacher Miss , funny thing about that is she , she , she came up to , Mr came up as headmaster and Miss came as a teacher , she was a pupil teacher it was n't necessary to go to college and get degrees in the , she , she used to be a pupil teacher in the infant school when I was at school , and Miss was actually at the sunshine school when my daughter was going to school . |
| 8 | When my Report was submitted to Mr Kenneth Baker , Secretary of State for Education and Science , he so much disliked it that he insisted that it should be printed back to front , starting with chapters 15 to 17 , which included our recommendations for attainment targets and programmes of study , and relegating the explanatory chapters 1 to 14 , which he thought unnecessary , to a kind of appendix . |
| 9 | On my first visit , I sat and said nothing : all my conversation was stilled to triviality and I listened to Belle telling stories . |
| 10 | ‘ My mother was burnt to death , in the cottage . ’ |
| 11 | Although Jiang had been sentenced to death in 1981 for " counter-revolutionary crimes " [ see pp. 30833-36 ] , her sentence was commuted to life imprisonment in 1983 [ see p. 32505 ] . |
| 12 | Held , allowing the appeal , that , where a creditor knew that security was being taken for the benefit of a debtor from a surety who was likely to be influenced by and to have some degree of reliance on the debtor , the creditor should seek to ensure that unfair advantage was not taken of the surety ; that , if the creditor failed to do so and the surety 's consent to the transaction was procured by the debtor 's undue influence or material misrepresentation or the surety lacked an adequate understanding of the nature and effect of the transaction , the security would be unenforceable ; that the bank knew that the defendants were husband and wife and that the wife was being asked to provide security for the husband 's business and was likely to rely on his judgment , and they should have ensured that she understood the nature and effect of the document which she was asked to sign ; and that , since the bank had failed to do so and had left it to the husband to explain the transaction , so that as a result of the husband 's misrepresentation the wife entered into the charge on the misunderstanding that her liability was limited to £60,000 , they could not enforce the charge against the wife save to the extent of £60,000 ( post , pp. 620C–G , 622F — 623C , D–F , 635G — 636F ) . |
| 13 | Seeing the couple 's arrival and the manner in which Madeleine was clinging to Harry 's arm as they left the car , he persuaded his friend up to his bedroom on the grounds that he must want a wash and brush-up after the long journey . |
| 14 | Her favourite was listening to jazz , either live at one of her regular haunts , Ali 's Alley or the Village Vanguard , or sitting at home with the headphones on , listening to the likes of David Sanborn or the Yellowjackets . |
| 15 | No explanation of the documents or of their effect was given to Mrs. O'Brien . |
| 16 | Her intention was to speak to Harold and prepare him before he got sight of the girl . |
| 17 | Her portfolio was allocated to Cisse Khaidama Mariam Youba Sidibe who continued as Minister of Planning and International Co-operation . |
| 18 | Her plan was doomed to failure ; they drove to the outskirts of Solihull and turned into the underground garage belonging to a newly built block of flats that were the last word in luxury , according to the advertisement she had seen . |
| 19 | Like Multitude and Solitude , it is an early exploration of the quest-adventure , man 's search for beauty as an ideal in human form , which Masefield was to bring to fruition in two later novels , Sard Harker and Odtaa . |
| 20 | There was a clear French model , for example , for Edward I 's Eleanor crosses , erected at stopping-places along the route of Queen Elea-nor 's coffin as her body was brought to Westminster for burial in 1290 . |
| 21 | DEBBIE ADAMS had to let her East End terrace house in London in a hurry when her husband was re-located to Ireland with two months ' notice . |
| 22 | Until the 1980s , however , its development was limited to executive functions where inputs and outputs could be most easily identified and aligned ( see Treasury and Civil Service Committee , 1982 , vol. 111 , Appendix 9 ) . |
| 23 | It subsequently emerged , however , that its remit was restricted to IBM 's " management processes " . |
| 24 | In 1930 , however , its name was changed to Revista Comunista , and the editors explicitly stated their intention to produce a theoretical journal rather than an information bulletin as hitherto . |
| 25 | In 1919 a herdbook was established for this breed of Central and Upper Belgium and its name was changed to Blanc-Bleu or Witblauw in 1971 . |
| 26 | Her father was sentenced to death . |
| 27 | ILR , of course , depended on the sale of ‘ spot ’ advertising , controlled by the IBA ( renamed from ITA when its role was extended to radio ) . |
| 28 | The Staffordshire branches to Caldon Low and Oakamoor were each carrying several trainloads of aggregates a week in the mid 1980s but their traffic was lost to road transport in 1988 and 1989 respectively . |
| 29 | Brenda 's cheeks still burned with shame when she remembered her mother 's insistence that she should visit Hoggatt 's to see where her daughter was going to work , although Chief Inspector Martin , the Senior Police Liaison Officer , had apparently thought it perfectly reasonable . |
| 30 | Her daughter was taken to America which is a European Convention country ( there are 16 in all ) . |