Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [vb pp] [adv] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Through the communicating voice tube I was invited up to the bridge . |
| 2 | She was hard at work in her jealously private workshop , though she called in briefly at the library from time to time , and I was invited back to the Lodge for meals some evenings . |
| 3 | I was called away to the hospital so I left her at the house waiting for Nigel to turn up to collect her . ’ |
| 4 | It happened that I was called back to the farm on the following Thursday to " cleanse " a cow and was in the byre when Dodson the drover called to pick up Blossom . |
| 5 | It was a relief when I was moved on to the Sports Desk ; these were gains and losses of a different kind and they did n't involve people getting killed . |
| 6 | The importance of this discovery can not be over-estimated , for through it I was led on to the further discovery of the Primary Control of the workings of all the mechanisms of the human organisms , and this marked the first important stage of my investigation . |
| 7 | ‘ I was bumped on to the rail six or seven times and I think I would have been in the first four but for that , ’ he said . |
| 8 | I was wrapped up to the eyes when I went u down to put my walking boots on as well because they 're comfortable and there were people going going round in their shellsuits and you know I must be feeling the cold more now . |
| 9 | I was bellied up to the bar with the crowd of bobby-soxers and crewcuts . |
| 10 | Eventually I was driven back to the Noones ’ house by a blue-clad security man . |
| 11 | After thanks and apologies all round I was driven back to the Lion to find that my borrowed sheep had been sold and had disappeared . |
| 12 | We had ages together before I was taken off to the ward . |
| 13 | I was taken back to the cell , where I started throwing the furniture about . |
| 14 | I was taken down to the block [ punishment wing ] and they left me there for two days . |
| 15 | I was brought back to the mundane present by the shiver of chill that ran over me . |
| 16 | Adds Murray : ‘ I was hauled off to the station but allowed to go after agreeing to pay for the damage . ’ |
| 17 | They formed their line again and started searching for Esmerelda while I was carried back to the house . |
| 18 | I was carried down to the ambulance and taken to a Kendal hospital . |
| 19 | I found it really hard when I was left totally to the women 's company … |
| 20 | Well that was the that was the er base headquarters of the international brigade , Albusate And then from there , w you were farmed out to the village , which was er er sort of the base , who are responsible for your er particular national battalion , you see er , the the the French people , they they er w they would be in one village , the English and the Canadians er er Americans would be er in this place that we were at , called Tarrazona Er and the Germans w , the German anti-fascists would be er in another . |
| 21 | However if you were let in to the secret that x stands for the number 10 then you can work out this problem in the following way unc |
| 22 | Now , she was stripped down to the bare essentials of her person , trying to deal with her knowledge . |
| 23 | She was referred again to the same cardiologist the next year and the exercise test was again negative and she was reassured . |
| 24 | She was referred back to the medical clinic after a few months with the same clinical findings . |
| 25 | Then , before she realised it , they had stopped and she was pushed down to the ground next to Sung , her back to him . |
| 26 | As for Mary Alice , she was flown back to the USA in June 1945 , some 11 months after her original crew . |
| 27 | She gave every indication that she was fed up to the teeth . |
| 28 | It must have been like that for Euturpia , when she was turned out to the cabana . |
| 29 | She had moved across the courtyard , flagstone by flagstone , to cheat the shadow ; now she was boxed in to the last corner of light . |
| 30 | Jenna looked back over her shoulder a little anxiously as she was led firmly to the door . |