Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] [vb pp] [verb] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , an aid convoy and a French field hospital trying to reach Srebrenica remained blocked yesterday while trucks intended for the Muslim town of Zepa were ordered to return to Belgrade by the UN after being stalled for six days . |
| 2 | In December 1987 Mafart was allowed to return to France in defiance of the agreement because it was alleged he was ill , although the French government refused to allow a New Zealand doctor to examine him . |
| 3 | David was encouraged to return to work the next day because this seemed to be the one positive aspect of his current situation . |
| 4 | But if something was slipped into the sherry , if Crumwallis was overheard talking to Frome , it could have been earlier . |
| 5 | In his self-torture he was unable to answer the simplest query , and Auguste was forced to turn to Araminta . |
| 6 | US officials said that imports from China had increased by 42 per cent in the first six months while US exports to China had risen by only 18.4 per cent , and the US trade deficit with China was expected to rise to US$15 billion . |
| 7 | Michael Drury was found stabbed to death at his home in Clipstone Field Place at Ecton Brook in Northampton nine days ago . |
| 8 | 76 year old , Arthur Brumhill was found bludgeoned to death on the floor of this pet shop . |
| 9 | 76 year old , Arthur Brumhill was found bludgeoned to death on the floor of this pet shop . |
| 10 | Kim Brockwell was found stabbed to death outside her flat in the city , but when the trial began today the charge was reduced to manslaughter . |
| 11 | 24 year old Kim Brockwell was found stabbed to death in the stairway of her flat in the fashionable Latin quarter of Paris in 1990 . |
| 12 | Twenty-nine year old Isadore Johnson was found stabbed to death in the back garden of a house the day after the party in August last year . |
| 13 | Mr Miles was found stabbed to death in the back garden of the home in Newtown that he shared with his parents and one of his brothers . |
| 14 | Police questioned him about 2 unsolved murders ; 43 year old Anorexic Carmel Gamble was found bludgeoned to death in her cottage in Stroud in 1989 . |
| 15 | Bland was encouraged to come to Europe by Gary Player . |
| 16 | And in spite of the compromise , five-sixths of the 30,000 Vichy troops in Syria and Lebanon were permitted to return to France and thereby lost to Free France . |
| 17 | Philip and Kelly Morle were separated the day after their wedding when Kelly was forced to return to Australia . |
| 18 | In terms of value , less than 40% of the items belonging to Polish-born French industrialist Leon Anlen were sold according to Tajan , who took the unprecedented step of ordering a blackout on all information about the sale both to journalists and even to the central press service of Drouot salerooms . |
| 19 | Unfortunately , however , just as his career in Madrid was really beginning to come together , Max was forced to return to Britain for personal reasons earlier this year . |