Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] was [verb] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course I was sent to bed without any supper . |
| 2 | I first recall the line in 1959 when as a young boy scout I was taken to camp at Pont-y-Pant . |
| 3 | As a result I was bidden to Clarence House for a pre-lunch gin and tonic with her and Princess Margaret . |
| 4 | The scepticism towards which , in Berkeley 's view , much seventeenth-century philosophy implicitly tended , is not unrelated to the traditional Greek scepticism which was brought to light in the sixteenth century . |
| 5 | brought together into indissoluble union our Western theory of Darwin and that strange doctrine of metempsychosis which was carried to Japan with Buddhism … |
| 6 | Thomas Gonne was a professional soldier who was posted to Ireland in 1868 . |
| 7 | The 19 year old Hibernian winger with his jet black hair , flamboyant skills and star-struck image was the typical innocent abroad , a player of immense natural talent who was lured to London , to find fame and fortune , but found a city caught in the fanfare of pop culture , desperate for another toy to play with . |
| 8 | As a result he was sent to Arles , where he came into contact with the rhetorician Julianus Pomerius . |
| 9 | To his intense disappointment he was taken to hospital with an internal disorder , and missed the opening of the battle . |
| 10 | He was well aware of the anthropomorphism and indeed found it satisfying ; it was as though , in the Britches , thigh-deep in lashing nettle and octopus strands of clutching bramble he was coming to grips at last with a great many things and , as often as not , getting the upper hand . |
| 11 | Having unequivocally given its support to child-centred learning , the Plowden Report also emphasised the responsibility which was entrusted to teachers by society . |
| 12 | At the same time the Training Grants Scheme was specifically excluded from money which was allocated to LMS . |
| 13 | At this lunch I was introduced to General Aung San by U Tin Tut . |
| 14 | Col Peck said Lt-Gen Robert Johnston , Edinburgh-born head of US forces in Somalia , and the US special envoy , Robert Oakley , signed the ultimatum which was communicated to Gen Morgan by radio . |
| 15 | This assertion was strongly denied by Tshisekedi , who further maintained that key Cabinet positions were controlled by supporters of Mobutu , including the Defence portfolio which was given to N'gbanda Nzambo Ko Atumba , a nephew of Mobutu . |
| 16 | The images , called E-fit pictures , are the first to be produced on state-of-the-art equipment which was delivered to Suffolk police only last week . |
| 17 | The cottage on the left here was bought by some business type who was going to weekend here with his girlfriend . |
| 18 | There was the case , for example , of a five-year-old boy who was taken to hospital vomiting violently and with a high temperature . |
| 19 | Immigration officials have refused entry to a Russian medical expert who was coming to Britain to help a paralysed teenager . |
| 20 | Based on the true story of an Inuit girl who was brought to Britain during the 19th century , the opera contrasts the spiritual culture of the Inuit people with the rigid conventions of Victorian Britain . |
| 21 | It appeared difficult for the dollar to be devalued since the exchange values of all other currencies were tied to it and the dollar itself was tied to gold . |
| 22 | The daughter of a pensioner who was beaten to death has made an appeal for help in the hunt for her father 's killer . |
| 23 | A silver salver which was presented to Lieut Col Leonard Laing , Commander of the 9th Durham ( Sunderland ) Battalion of the Home Guard , is to go on display at the Monkwearmouth at War Exhibition at Monkwearmouth Station Museum in Sunderland . |
| 24 | The limited nature of government response to the process of national reform was explained by the relatively lower level of attention which was paid to curriculum than to mechanisms of money . |
| 25 | but all of which are gone and we 've replaced them with these since many , you know , quite a few years ago , er we bought one utility suite from an engineer who was going to Rhodesia and that 's in our second bedroom still it 's , well the bed is but the |
| 26 | Carrie got up and kissed her father before she left the ward , followed by her husband who was talking to Nellie . |
| 27 | Later that evening he was taken to hospital , vomiting uncontrollably . |
| 28 | The next day I was chatting to friends — Joy and Alan Byne . |
| 29 | ‘ One minute I was going to Forest , the next it was all off . |
| 30 | Don ‘ t be a soft target will complement the Pushover video which was distributed to branches in November 1988 . |