Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pers pn] [was/were] [verb] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jess glanced at Miss Phoebe to see how she was reacting to the bit about niggers . |
| 2 | I asked exactly how they were related to the Great Moguls . |
| 3 | It is very important to emphasise that in drawing up these formal treaties covering the limitation and control of the methods and means of warfare , those involved did not see themselves as creating new rules , but as codifying existing principles and specifying how they were to apply to the rapidly changing conditions of warfare produced by political and technological developments . |
| 4 | I had a similar experience back in 1978 , when I was elected to the national executive committee of the Labour party . |
| 5 | In my own case , from 1957 when I joined ICI until 1973 when I was appointed to the board , I had no fewer than nine jobs . |
| 6 | Antonia made no excuses about why she was attracted to the bespectacled father-of-two . |
| 7 | For her part in the daring escapade , Flora Macdonald was taken prisoner and , for a year , lay incarcerated on a troopship in Leith Roads in the Firth of Forth , before being taken to London , where she was sent to the Tower . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , she did , but it was when we were going to the station to see him off . |
| 9 | TRANMERE won their long fight to provide a better standard of competition for their reserves today when they were admitted to the Pontins League . |
| 10 | From there they passed to a polishing room , and thence to what was known as No 3 position , where they were fitted to the actual coach . |
| 11 | Our passage continues a description of Titus Groan 's childhood as heir to the phantasmagorical mansion of Gormenghast : [ 19 ] Who are the characters ? ( 1 ) And what has he [ Titus ] learned of them and of his home since that far day when he was born to the Countess of Groan in a room alive with birds ? ( 2 ) . |
| 12 | After the Restoration , pursuing his erstwhile reversion on Edmund 's behalf , he was pronounced unfit for a tellership , but he kept out of trouble until 1671 , when he was sent to the Tower on suspicion of involvement in the conspiracy of Colonel Thomas Blood [ q.v . ] . |
| 13 | On graduating he joined the Geological Survey in 1875 , working in the Teesdale and Cheviot districts until 1884 , when he was posted to the Survey 's Edinburgh office . |
| 14 | His apprenticeship took him through various parts of the motor car division until the outbreak of war , when he was transferred to the aviation side to make crankshafts and camshafts for Merlin engines . |
| 15 | In 1939 he rejoined his regiment and served on the staff as a captain until 1944 , when he was transferred to the procurement and fine arts branch formed to protect historic buildings and works of art at risk during the invasion of the Continent . |
| 16 | Favour was first bestowed upon him by Mr Kinnock in l987 when he was appointed to the policy review group on democracy for the individual and the community convened by Roy Hattersley . |
| 17 | His career as a linguist in Britain dates from 1928 when he was appointed to the Department of Phonetics at the University of London . |
| 18 | Despite a piddling little incident in Aberdeen in 1989 when he was reported to the Procurator Fiscal for what the law delicately describes as ‘ a public nuisance offence ’ , Nicholas began to re-build his reputation at Aberdeen , a city whose heritage was built on fish and has the highest concentration of chip shops in Scotland . |
| 19 | He was a detective sergeant from 1975 to 1982 when he was promoted to the rank of inspector . |
| 20 | Despite much rebuilding and the need for dogged perseverance by Holroyd Smith and his supporters , his conduit line although equipped with primitive electrical apparatus , handled everything Blackpool 's crowds and the sea could throw at it until 1899 , when it was converted to the cheaper overhead line method now used . |
| 21 | Huntington remained with the Esmondes until 1760 , when it was sold to the Bishop of Limerick ; but it came back into the family when it was bought in 1780 by Alexander Durdin , a Protestant , whose son Richard married Frances Esmonde . |
| 22 | The house remained in the family until 1953 , when it was donated to the National Trust . |
| 23 | Oxbridge , then , was only lifted to the apex of the study of English language , literature , and history when it was subjected to the demands for national efficiency and leadership . |
| 24 | A series of explosions tore at the stem of the plate-district where it was attached to the rest of the city . |
| 25 | Once declared safe the U-boat will be towed on a floating platform to the North Sea port of Hirtshals , 90 miles from where it was brought to the surface . |
| 26 | The ore was taken down to the lake , boated down to Nibthwaite , carted from thence to Penny Bridge or Greenodd , ( the latter was quite a busy small port ) from where it was shipped to the Macclesfield Co's. smelters at Liverpool . |
| 27 | This hands-on experience helped Lorne talk his way into a production assistant 's job at the BBC in London , where he was exposed to the broader spectrum of skills required to get a film on the air . |
| 28 | In 1990 Alvarez was abducted from his home in Guadalajara by bounty hunters and smuggled into the USA where he was delivered to the DEA . |
| 29 | so as for emotional outbursts and not getting any penalty i guess he knows all albout it and that 's why he was asked/spoke to the press about Ooh-Aah 's turkish outburst . |