Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] to [noun prp] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The saint 's relics were given to Vukovar by Pope Benedict XIV and brought from Rome in 1754 . |
| 2 | Hick and Hughes were extradited to Germany on July 16 to face charges connected with the bombing of barracks at Langenhagen , near Hannover in May 1990 , and with the murder of a British army major in Dortmund four days after the Roermond shootings [ see p. 37537 ] . |
| 3 | Although the coup attempt was finally crushed on Aug. 1 , the troops were flown to Trinidad on Aug. 3 , at the request of the Robinson government , as a " precautionary " move to protect oil installations . |
| 4 | On the following day , under a temporary amnesty , a group of 167 wounded guerrillas was allowed to leave El Salvador for medical treatment and were flown to Cuba via Mexico . |
| 5 | Haddington Sheriff Court heard that the left-hand drive Land Rover driven by Timothy Taylor collided with a ten-ton lorry on the Edinburgh-Newcastle road near Spott , East Lothian , while their 18-man team were returning to Germany from training in the Highlands with the Royal Marines . |
| 6 | On the surrender of the abbey to the king 's commissioners in December 1539 , the buildings assigned ‘ to remain undefaced ’ were given into the custody of its former steward , Sir Edward Baynton , but all those ‘ deemed to be superfluous ’ were committed to Stumpe as Baynton 's deputy : they included the church , cloister , chapter house , dormitory , frater , and infirmary . |
| 7 | Before any work commenced however , the region 's administrations were transferred to Burston in January , 1992 , which culminated in a new office being completed in July that year . |
| 8 | As the result of information provided by Parot , 17 others were arrested on April 4-5 in south-west France including two other members of the commando , Jacques Esnal and Frederic Haramboure , who had slipped through the Seville roadblock , and a Benedictine monk ; nine were transferred to Paris for interrogation . |
| 9 | Premiums collected in Kenya were transferred to London for reinvestment . |
| 10 | The Hugh Bell School dosed on 1948 , and the deaf classes were transferred to Homewood in Orchard Road , in enlarged premises ready to receive pupils from the Stockton School for the Deaf which was also to close . |
| 11 | As a result , six separate operations based in north London ( two in Cockfosters , three in Potters Bar and one in Whetstone ) and one in Orpington in Kent were relocated to Stevenage in north Hertfordshire . |
| 12 | In the meantime , maintenance equipment and personnel were relocated to Renfrew from Abbotsinch and began preparing the Spitfires for transfer to the docks . |
| 13 | The impact of de Gaulle 's words , which were transmitted to Algeria via Radio Monte Carlo and picked up by soldiers on their transistor radios , was again critical . |
| 14 | The village itself was in Dorset , but visits were needed to Alnwick in Northumberland , Seal in Kent , Syon in Middlesex , Southampton in Hampshire , Slapton in Devon and Salisbury in Wiltshire to examine original manuscripts and take photographs . |
| 15 | Les , with the active support of his wife Pam , has spent several years listing the 1,000 prisoners , 600 of them RAF and himself among them , who were drafted to Ambon from Java in April 1943 . |
| 16 | IF BILL CLINTON were to look to Florida for advice on how to pass a health-care bill , the answer might come back in the words of Lyndon Johnson : better to have your enemies inside your tent pissing out , than outside pissing in . |
| 17 | Nos. 11E , 18E and 20E with four others were sold to Cohens without trucks which were then used to replace unsatisfactory trucks under the seven Erith covered top cars , which were to remain in service a little longer . |
| 18 | In the largest transaction , interests in 17 blocks were sold to Deminex for £105.8 million . |
| 19 | The Feltham cars were sold to Leeds at £720 each . |
| 20 | If he was not back tonight , then he would be tomorrow and if he was late , she must tell Bert that they were going to Ireland on Tuesday , early . |
| 21 | Now , when I came back from Stop Hill the other night , must have been , oh must have been Thursday , cos Paul erm , was going out with Alec and then they were going to Alec for dinner and when I came back one of the erm wooden staves was off here , had been prized off . |
| 22 | We were going to Aberystwyth in Wales ; too far away for me , I wanted the north . |
| 23 | Then we were going to Newquay in Cornwall ; worse still . |
| 24 | These chiefs were bound to Sigmar by oaths of loyalty , and in return they and their heirs were to rule in his name . |
| 25 | Potatoes were first grown in Peru and were brought to Britain by Sir Walter Raleigh . |
| 26 | Thanks to Zhukov , critical Khrushchev supporters were brought to Moscow in time for the Central Committee meeting which then overturned the Politburo 's verdict . |
| 27 | Just then , the day 's takings were brought to Garvey by Davey of Carlisle . |
| 28 | It was from the first century B.C. onwards that the vast white marble quarries at Carrara were developed and that quantities of Greek marble were shipped to Italy from Hymettus and Pentelicus . |
| 29 | All the decisions of the council were notified to Silvester of Rome . |
| 30 | The 11 who officially remained were expelled to Venezuela on May 28 . |