Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] was [verb] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm I had expressed a preference for the Navy , so I was sent to Plymouth , to join the Devonshire regiment , at Mill Bay docks , which was a an infantry regiment and machine gun core regiment . |
| 2 | So I was introduced to Percy Bysshe Shelley . |
| 3 | So I was taken to hospital and I was in hospital two years . |
| 4 | Perhaps she was attracted to Jacqui 's work because she had just won a prize for designing a new uniform . |
| 5 | I hope it will la apparently he was talking to Kathy , no , yeah , I always get , I always think Kathy and Jenny should be the other way round no |
| 6 | Perhaps he was going to Porteneil to get drunk in the Rock Hotel , or perhaps he was off to Inverness , where he often goes on business he prefers to keep mysterious , but I suspected that it was really something to do with Eric . |
| 7 | So he was attracted to Evans-Pritchard 's contention that ‘ the sociologist should also be a moral philosopher and that , as such , he should have a set of definite beliefs and values in terms of which he evaluates the facts he studies as a sociologist ’ . |
| 8 | So he was brought to trial so they could test out this , this whole situation , get to the bottom of it and the , the high priest Kiathas was the central figure in organising the troops . |
| 9 | Another favourite to go out early on was Kevin Mitchell who retired at Portrush on lap one so it was left to Brian Reid , Alan Patterson , and Alan Irwin to carry the main challenge to Dunlop along with Milling and Lougher . |
| 10 | Finally she was brought to Britain but had a seizure on the Croatian Airlines flight . |
| 11 | Finally she was brought to Britain but had a seizure on the Croatian Airlines flight . |
| 12 | But tonight she was going to Le Club Zodiaque , tonight she wanted to sip wine until her feet were flying . |
| 13 | Because Lee went to Garth House his Mum took objection to him , and anyway he was moving to Thirkett , was n't he ? |
| 14 | When Mr Steen rang on Friday afternoon to say he was n't certain whether or not he was returning to London at the weekend , she had checked the petrol in the car in case he might want it . |
| 15 | He could have said with Hamlet , The Time is Out of Joint , and Cursed Spit that Ever I was Born to Set it Right . |
| 16 | Mm , I said to Tony if we ca n't afford to go I said do n't worry about it , we might just go back down to where we went last year for a week because , it 's like I was saying to Joanne this morning , that this year they wo n't , they 're not gon na worry whether they do n't go on holiday but next year when Charlotte 's at school and got all her school mates saying oh where did you go and |
| 17 | Moreover it was confined to members of the Labour Party , its first rule stating that " all members are expected to become individual members of their constituency Labour Parties " . |
| 18 | Before the Duke 's canal was completed in 1765 , coal had sold in Manchester at double its pit-head price ; thereafter it was halved to threepence farthing a hundredweight . |
| 19 | The more de Gaulle insisted that his was not a party and that he was appealing to all patriotic men and women of every class , the more he was conforming to stereotypes of right-wing authoritarianism . |
| 20 | ‘ That bitch … ’ said Surkov softly , and I knew at once he was referring to Imogen . |
| 21 | Six months before she was due to be released she was assessed for admission to a special hospital , at the request of the prison psychiatrist ; two months later she was transferred to Moss Side hospital . |
| 22 | Two weeks later she was admitted to St Margaret 's hospital , where mistake number two was made . |
| 23 | A few weeks later he was transferred to Newcastle United for a fee of £90,000 , becoming the first player to be signed up by soccer legend Keegan as new manager of the First Division club . |
| 24 | At the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian war some months later he was recalled to Germany ; he served as a stretcher-bearer in the army of the Loire and was wounded . |
| 25 | A year later he was deported to Turkey for his public condemnation of the Shah 's agreement to grant diplomatic immunity to American military advisers and their support staff . |
| 26 | A few minutes later he was talking to Pooley . |
| 27 | An hour later he was standing to attention in a depleted square of those who had survived the battle . |
| 28 | At first , the technique was used for relatively simple objects , such as pendants and heads , but later it was applied to vases , statuettes and plaques . |
| 29 | Three years and near a thousand fuses later it was changed to gas . |
| 30 | Now I was talking to Dad I wanted to tell him about how Mum and I had found Granny and what wicked things Mum had done , but I knew Mum 's eyes were on me so I thought better of it . |