Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [verb] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was invited to the Royal Premiere in London to view the production before it came to our theatre . |
| 2 | So , imagine my relief when I was called to the front porch , and I was greeted by a cheery ‘ American Red Cross reporting for duty Ma'am . |
| 3 | It was there all the time but I had turned my back upon it in a sense , so when I got converted , and of course I was listening to the Big Man 's comments on events and I recognized the validity of what he was saying . |
| 4 | I had a similar experience back in 1978 , when I was elected to the national executive committee of the Labour party . |
| 5 | I tried missing some of these parades , but one day I was summoned to the local headquarters of the organization in Parma where a rather fat , forbidding woman of high rank , dressed in Fascist uniform , told me that if I missed any more I would be suspended from school . |
| 6 | Lord Lloyd interviewed me , and explained that I was to report to the Military Attaché at the Baghdad Embassy , though I was to be attached to the British Institute . |
| 7 | I was sent to the new office in India to take charge , while Herbert came back to England to marry his Clara . |
| 8 | When we first came to St , Albans , I was sent to the High School for Girls , which despite its name took boys up to the age of ten . |
| 9 | Overnight I was posted to the other end of the country and the war seemed to recede , but the need for bomber replacement became more urgent . |
| 10 | I was treated to the full force of the General 's disapproval , which was not negligible . |
| 11 | When I said that I must look into the matter , I was referring to the franked envelope , not its contents . |
| 12 | I was referring to the hon. Member for Blackburn ( Mr. Straw ) . |
| 13 | The idea was , I was to go to the foster parents , stay there until the baby was born and mobile , and then move to a flat . |
| 14 | ‘ I did n't realize it was the ‘ Queen of Casterbridge market ’ I was speaking to the other night . |
| 15 | ‘ I was sacked because I was known to the local RUC as an ex-republican prisoner , ’ he said from Portlaoise Prison . |
| 16 | Before long , I was introduced to the hysterical world of balletomania and had had several overnight trips to Sadlers Wells theatre to queue up for the cheap seats , once even queueing all night . |
| 17 | Whilst there I was introduced to the nearby Cheshire Home and went there for five weeks . |
| 18 | Then I was attached to the Foreign Office in various postings as a defence attaché . |
| 19 | I got to , when I was going to the little school I got told the little ones . |
| 20 | So then about a week later I was going to the open evening and he said oh ask him how he remembers . |
| 21 | He looked at my pityingly , no doubt thinking that I was succumbing to the English diseases , amateurism and laziness . |
| 22 | As early as 1955 a CAB sub-committee was set up by the national committee to consider hire purchase problems as seen by bureaux all over the country and by other voluntary organisations with experience of families in difficulty ; and in addition to recommendations about trade practices , about possible action by local authorities , and other things , which were sent to the appropriate associations or government departments , the deliberations of the committee produced results which were to have an influence on the trend and standing of much CAB work in the future . |
| 23 | The Marquess of Salisbury had become Prime Minister in 1895 , and in 1889 his government introduced death duties which were to lead to the gradual breaking up of the wealthy estates , which previously had passed from father to son — or some other relative — without any loss . |
| 24 | What is the point of decoding artefacts whose ‘ codes ’ were actually designed to be cracked , like those phoney communiqués which were fed to the German Intelligence Service during World War II ? |
| 25 | For poly ( methyl methacrylate ) samples , which were prepared under different conditions to give the three forms , resonances at τ = 8.78 , 8.95 and 9.09 were observed , which were assigned to the isotatic , heterotactic , and syndiotactic triads respectively . |
| 26 | These changes , which were limited to the big club sides , will be examined later in relation to media interest in sport . |
| 27 | They met 45 times over two years and prepared reports which were circulated to the other members of the International Commission and to the editors of the more important chemistry journals . |
| 28 | In the 1970s , partly due to growing criticisms of marginality , which were linked to the increased strength of dependency theories , attention switched away from housing to focus on problems of employment and the economic structure . |
| 29 | It had sprung from his activities in the housing movement , but was run on straight commercial lines , providing an ‘ alternative ’ removals service and producing a nice sideline in salvaged Victorian fireplaces which were sold to the new rich . |
| 30 | Both the two-rig landing bays had moved into the banks on the centreline , and their combined crews , assisted by the ubiquitous bank support section , had connected the anchor ropes and the short ramp sections , Which were added to the main ramps to allow traffic easy access to the bridge . |