Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [verb] to [art] [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 I was escorted to the fifth floor and shown in to a riverside suite which was named after Sir Charles Chaplin , because he always used to stay there when he visited London .
2 Sub pose she was left to the last !
3 ‘ I played in the last game in the Third Division before we were relegated to the Fourth .
4 As we were walking to the next hole I tried to think of the right things to say to him , so I said , ‘ Greg , do me a favour .
5 I then resolution two which is continuing the process that we were introduced to the last Synod and the previous Synod consideration of the endless discussion document on Christian initiation .
6 Before counting ( LKB Wallac 1260 Multigamma II counter ) they were transferred to a second Falcon tube to exclude 1 2 5 I-IFN γ bound to plastic .
7 In 1920 they were promoted to the First Division and got to their first Cup final , against Aston Villa at Stamford Bridge , where they were beaten 1–0 .
8 That was a bit of an exception , as it was sent to the first Independents Exhibition in New York and , as is the case with all the Independents exhibitions , there was no hanging committee .
9 He was called to the next bungalow ; the woman 's trying to sell it ; and there he saw the happy couple saying goodbye to each other .
10 He was appointed to the first Nuffield chair in child health in the University of London in 1946 and held this post at the Hospital for Sick Children , Great Ormond Street .
11 He was elected to the first Protectorate Parliament in 1654 for King 's Lynn , and again to the second in 1656 , this time on a double return which was rejected .
12 He was elected to the first Montgomeryshire county council in 1889 .
13 Having barely attained his majority he was returned to the first Exclusion Parliament for Radnorshire , and , although knighted by Charles II in 1680 , threw himself with an almost desperate zeal into the cause of Exclusion , with the result that in 1683 he went into voluntary exile in Holland , suspected of complicity in the Rye House plot .
14 He was attached to the 3rd Army Corps , and while serving in France he earned a mention in despatches .
15 The lengthy obituaries which he earned in the British press deserve to completed now by the publication as soon as possible of his memoirs , on which he was working to the last .
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