Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv] [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Willis and four men were whisked off to jail for the night and released on bail . |
| 2 | They were instructed not to interfere in the internal politics of Indonesia but to hand over , in due time , to the legitimate authority : that is , the Netherlands . |
| 3 | The team did not issue a statement and staff were told not to talk about the operation . |
| 4 | The men called to pick up their holiday pay and were told not to return in the New Year . |
| 5 | In the 1980s , Asian economies moved from low-tech to mid-tech or even high-tech , and some countries began to export knowledge products and most were turning more to research as an underpinning of future economic growth . |
| 6 | Some of the passengers must have been up just after dawn to watch the huge liner ease its way gently alongside the dock , and those who were n't were beginning gradually to emerge on the upper decks , or to enjoy breakfast by one of the pools . |
| 7 | One class , after looking at an old muster roll and hearing how men in their county were called up to fight in the militia , made a cut-out army of 150 cardboard soldiers . |
| 8 | The Secretary-General was asked to organize an air bridge for food aid as a matter of urgency , and all parties and factions were called on to co-operate in the deployment of UN security personnel . |
| 9 | The arrival of bailiffs often results in fear and confusion … just a fortnight ago police reinforcements were called in to help with an eviction from a house in Brockworth . |
| 10 | Firemen were called out to deal with a blaze at an empty factory on the Oakesway Trading Estate in Hartlepool at the weekend . |
| 11 | Searchers were called out to look for the overdue hikers , and spotting their torches in the distance Alistair used his camera flash to attract their attention . |
| 12 | In the " proximity talks " the two leaders were brought together to work towards a framework agreement in line with UN Security Council Resolution 750 of April 1992 [ see p. 38873 ; for talks in June see p. 38980 ] . |
| 13 | French masons were brought in to work on the glorified hunting lodge of Falkland in Fife until it came to resemble a French Renaissance palace in miniature , with the courtyard 's south range richly decorated with Scots thistles , French fleurs-de-lis and pictorial medallions . |
| 14 | Claudia felt as if she were running hard to remain in the same place . |
| 15 | The research programme seemed to provide the stimulus for improvement around the country , particularly in academic libraries where many working parties were set up to deal with the problem . |
| 16 | Two trade bodies were set up to press for a system of price fixing : the Associated Booksellers of Great Britain and Ireland in 1895 and the Publishers Association in 1896 . |
| 17 | Extension services were set up to focus upon a target population of every couple , the wife of which was aged 15–44 years , backed up by medical services and financial incentives to adopters . |
| 18 | While members were asked not to behave in a representative manner , the source of their nomination ( councils , fellow doctors , nurses and trade unionists ) made it very difficult for them not to consider ramifications on their constituencies . |
| 19 | You were asked recently to vote on the forms of action you would prefer to take in support of the shop 's position on the reduction of pay differentials . |
| 20 | In some of his experiments the rats were rolling along to get to the food in the goal-box . |
| 21 | The pair were pitched together to play in the opening two rounds , and while Couples collapsed with a 77 , Faldo reduced their duel in the sun to a calculated ambush . |
| 22 | And when the CEGB 's geologists were sent out to look at the geological substrata , they were harassed as heavily as the waste dumpers had been . |
| 23 | Firemen wearing breathing apparatus were sent in to deal with the fire at Hedley-on-the-Hill , Northumberland . |
| 24 | A few million dollars were kept abroad to provide for the family 's regular needs from videos and colour television sets through to Nicolae Ceauşescu 's preferred Gillette razors . |
| 25 | ‘ Edinburgh citizens , ’ Mr Thin complained , ‘ were advised not to come into the centre of town , and they took this advice very literally . ’ |
| 26 | This morning the staff were ordered not to talk about the closure , but they were clearly shocked . |
| 27 | The first great public indication of the shift in Barth 's thinking came in 1927 , when he published the first volume of a projected Christian Dogmatics , which was intended eventually to handle in a systematic way all the main Christian doctrines . |
| 28 | I was taught how to deal with the medical post , and how to file patients ' records . |
| 29 | What was really getting to him was the fact that alien-fever was proving hard to eradicate in the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist . |
| 30 | The bar/restaurant near Union Station was dolled up to look like an English pub and doing it better than most London pubs did , to Maxim 's traditionalist eye . |