Example sentences of "[adv] was [verb] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his place , the MP for Hamilton , George Robertson , who yesterday was voted on to the shadow cabinet for the first time . |
| 2 | Erm that later on , the signal box that used to be here was moved over to the other side , that 's all that 's there for . |
| 3 | Artemis much preferred things that were real , such as the injured squirrel she had rescued and nursed back to health , and her pet hen Jemima whose broken leg she and Rosie had mended , and who every now and then was allowed up to the nursery . |
| 4 | He he 's arguing I think on a basis of , of the experience of the past few years that the situation now in China was a , was a rather variable one , that land reform had proceeded at different rates in different areas and because areas where different that had to be taken into account and Mao explicitly was going back to the idea that in the newly liberated areas the policy would be one of rent reduction , interest rate reduction and that rent and interest rate reduction had to be established for some time until the position had consolidated around rent reduction , around interest rate reduction and once that had happened you would then be able to go into land reform itself . |
| 5 | At last when the man 's legs were freed and he too was carried out to the waiting ambulance , Rachel stood up and flexed her cramped muscles . |