Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] was [verb] [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually I was driven back to the Noones ’ house by a blue-clad security man . |
| 2 | So she was packed off to bloody England and came back with an Englishman . |
| 3 | Mike and I saw a a very young child being washed at a tube well , those guiding us round the site were very impressed by this , the child was rather perplexed and surprised as normally it was taken down to the river to be washed . |
| 4 | So I thought I 'd put in for that , it was a lateral move you know , but still it was getting back to my depot and nearer my home . |
| 5 | A week later I was called back to Downing Street by Margaret Thatcher and told that I was taking over the Department of Health and Social Security and also the question-and-answer session . |
| 6 | Then about four days later it was pointed out to me that a real earthquake actually hit Germany last week , and she was n't being poetic at all , and I actually felt cheated of the wave of emotion I had felt towards her . |
| 7 | She had moved across the courtyard , flagstone by flagstone , to cheat the shadow ; now she was boxed in to the last corner of light . |
| 8 | Three weeks ago I was invited down to a meeting of water workers . |
| 9 | Several months ago she was enticed back to the Lion in partnership with Mr Ashworth . |
| 10 | How I did not develop pneumonia I shall never know , my sciatic nerve was outraged by this treatment , and fortunately I was taken back to Fulmer House . |
| 11 | Then she was whisked off to lunch at the clubhouse . |
| 12 | And then she was holding on to the branches , feeling where the Robemaker had hacked and sawn at them , knowing she must be hurting the Larch even more , and trying to be as gentle as possible . |
| 13 | Then she was driven back to the squat , where she spent all afternoon putting up her curtains where none had been , or replacing curtains for which she had no feeling . |
| 14 | Sometimes he was roped in to be the MC at these dances , which , for those who know only disco dancing , means Master of Ceremonies , and it was he who announced that the next dance would be a waltz , or a foxtrot , and was not supposed to dance himself until everyone else was on the floor . |
| 15 | Then he was turning back to Jeff and Silvia . |
| 16 | On his surrender Noriega was transported by helicopter to the nearby Howard Air Force Base in Panama , and there he was turned over to representatives of the US Drug Enforcement Agency . |
| 17 | From there he was handed on to Bloomsbury House , where Elaine Blond agreed a one-off payment to fit him out for another job . |
| 18 | Victor Matterface , the Brakes Inspector of the Metropolitan tramways , who later became a well-known Tramway Engineer elsewhere , describes how he was called on to visit South Metropolitan depôts as well as in the 1920's . |
| 19 | After thanks and apologies all round I was driven back to the Lion to find that my borrowed sheep had been sold and had disappeared . |
| 20 | The nursing staff said she got off the delivery table herself , and could not understand why she was ordered back to bed . |
| 21 | Instead she was farmed out to family friends , Major Jeremy Whitaker , a photographer , and his wife Philippa who lived in Headley Bawden in Hampshire . |
| 22 | As the pillager passed by its glassy protuberance , she hesitated , swallowed her natural nausea and reached for it — thereby precipitating everything else she was balancing on to the tessellated tiles and into oblivion . |
| 23 | Peter Graham Scott , who made some episodes of Danger Man and the TV play The Quare Fellow , was working on the legendary series The Troubleshooters when he was called on to direct several episodes of Sir Francis Drake , including the opening one . |
| 24 | He did not fly operationally again with the squadron , being posted temporarily to A.H.Q. Malta at Safi as a test pilot until 12 June , when he was flown out to Gibraltar in a Sunderland . |
| 25 | Aggie got the mousetraps , and the only thing they caught was her Harold 's big toe one night when he was hurrying down to the lavatory in the backyard . |
| 26 | He was quickly driven to Damascus where he was handed over to the US chargé d'affaires , John Craig . |
| 27 | Firemen hauled the middle aged man out from the tank where he was trapped up to his neck . |