Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [prep] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I thought I was under contract to Paul Lexington Productions . ’ |
| 2 | On Wednesdays , as a tribute to Aunt Emily , she was at home to callers , and faithfully , once a week , she went to the Rectory and was a tiger for an hour in the jungle under the nursery table . |
| 3 | She was in town to film Modesty Blaise for Joseph Losey . |
| 4 | I know it 's , I knew it was Needham Station and it was between station to station , you see , not er anything to do with the public but that 's where I learnt so we used to er take er messages from station to station and I used to speak to the girl at Merrith down the line . |
| 5 | It was in attitudes to sex — and specifically male attitudes to women — that It began to argue with the outside world , and itself , almost from the beginning . |
| 6 | It was in part to answer these questions that the California State Legislature in the Autumn of 1976 passed a law called the Natural Death Act . |
| 7 | When I first bowled to him in the nets I said it was like bowling to Zaheer Abbas . |
| 8 | I knew he was under contract to Warners , where I had worked . |
| 9 | Yardley bore all these setbacks with great dignity , afflicted as he was from time to time by a form of lumbago that almost certainly hastened his retirement . |
| 10 | He was from time to time ordered to raise money by leasing out assarts and waste lands , and by organizing and supervising sales of timber and underwood . |
| 11 | In any event , on this picture , he was from time to time spectacularly taken with a seizure of one kind or another . ’ |
| 12 | But he was in thrall to Deuce , who now reappeared in the distance followed by an over-liveried porter who was carrying two large suitcases . |