Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] [noun prp] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The waters were layered from October to May while ice was present , with temperatures close to freezing point near the surface but at 1–1.25°C near the bottom in 26 m . |
| 2 | The release of prisoners of war by Iraq was officially described as completed when a total of 45 prisoners-of-war had been handed over to the International Committee of the Red Cross ( 10 on March 4 , comprising six US personnel , three British and one Italian , and 35 on March 5 , comprising 15 US , nine British , nine Saudis , an Italian and a Kuwaiti , who were flown from Baghdad to Riyadh on March 6 ) . |
| 3 | ‘ Jock ’ Norwell , Jim Pickering , Harry Ayre and ‘ Drac ’ Bowerman were flown from Luqa to Egypt in a Wellington piloted by newly-promoted and decorated Plt.Off . |
| 4 | Wright and Richmond were recommended by Collinson to Bartram as being the most reliable , and were sometimes asked to convey zoological cargo ; live squirrels , red-birds and terrapins for Lord Petre or insects mounted in a cork-lined box for Dr Fothergill . |
| 5 | Between 1940 and 1944 some 76,000 Jews were deported from France to death camps ; 2,600 survived . |
| 6 | In 1914 batteries of these weapons were lent by Austria to Germany 's right-wing armies to reduce the Belgian fortress-cities . |
| 7 | In Stage VIII votes were transferred from Cousins to Kinahan ( both Alliance ) and from Kinahan in Stage IX to Dickson and McLachlan ( both UPNI ) . |
| 8 | SIR — In early 1991 , about 15,000 Jews were airlifted from Ethiopia to Israel . |
| 9 | Our observations of the maser emission were made from January to June 1992 with the Nobeyana 45-m telescope . |
| 10 | Evidently the need to furnish an emerging capital with prestigious works of art remained important throughout antiquity and indeed in more recent times : Rome lost much , though temporarily , from Napoleon 's ambitious plans for embellishing Paris with famous works of art , and during the Second World War many artistic works were transported from Italy to Germany . |
| 11 | When the first 120 miles of the East India Railway were opened from Calcutta to Raniganj in 1855 , the ceremony took place at Burdwan station , a long classical structure 66 miles from Calcutta . |
| 12 | He made a special entry in his journal about ten unemployed men marching from Bootle to London , with seven who were going from London to Leeds ; they stayed for one night and were provided with tea and breakfast . |
| 13 | The terrifying near miss took place 4,500 ft above RAF Waddington , Lincs , as the riders were flying from Newbury to York races . |
| 14 | Piggott , Michael Hills , Philip Robinson and George Duffield , all jockeys , were flying from Newmarket to York on 19 August , 1992 , when the near catastrophe took place , said the Joint Airmiss Working Group ( JAWG ) . |
| 15 | The pair , from Whitefield , Greater Manchester , were travelling from Sydney to Brisbane . |
| 16 | Two crates containing 1,000 Garter snakes were shipped from Miami to London . |
| 17 | Twenty flamingoes were shipped from Tanzania to London , on arrival three were dead , the other 17 had suffered multiple wounds to legs and wings from tight , non-elastic straps . |
| 18 | Instead they were driven from Sarajevo to Split in Croatia , and flown to England . |
| 19 | The children were taken from Orkney to mainland Scotland under Place of Safety orders . |
| 20 | Exports worth up to £0.5m. a year in the late seventeenth century were taken from India to England , often for re-export to the rest of the world , and this trade determined the flow of dividends . |
| 21 | However , on Jan. 17 Iran released 53 sick and wounded Iraqi PoWs , 50 of whom were returned to Iraq ( the remaining three seeking political asylum in Iran ) , and on Jan. 18 , 20 sick and wounded Iranian PoWs were returned by Iraq to Iran . |
| 22 | He added : ‘ I was staggered to learn that limestone was to go from Redmire to Redcar by road when we were told in 1988 that British Steel could n't get enough of it and had put on an additional train . |
| 23 | The first questionnaire was completed in February to March 1988 before the smoking education projects were started . |
| 24 | A wealthy man , without flying experience , was flown from London to Paris by his pilot . |
| 25 | He was flown from Edinburgh to Manchester airport before being taken for a tearful re-union with his mother 's parents . |
| 26 | Valerio Viccei , 37 , who is thought to have got away with £26 million from the daring robbery , was flown from Heathrow to Rome where he faces questioning over 50 unsolved crimes . |
| 27 | On May 26 Zeyal Sarhadi was extradited from Switzerland to France , following a ruling by Switzerland 's Federal Tribunal . |
| 28 | The most recent launch , the first flight of the second orbiter , Challenger , was delayed from January to April because of persistent fuel and coolant leaks from the main engines . |
| 29 | When Ako Adjei , Adamafio and Crabbe were given a second trial they were condemned to death : but the sentence was commuted by Nkrumah to life imprisonment . |
| 30 | There would also be problems with the EC if more authority was devolved from Westminster to Brussels . |