Example sentences of "[noun prp] was [verb] [prep] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the foot of the stairs , David was listening with interest to what her father was saying , a smile on his lips . |
| 2 | This considered in accordance with AFHQ FX 75383 dated 14 [ Robertson 's order of 14 May -this confirms that Low 's order of 17 May was issued in response to the Robertson order ] . |
| 3 | In the same year Bavaria and Wurttemberg concluded a customs agreement and a Central German Customs Union was formed in response , rather as EFTA was formed in response to the EEC . |
| 4 | At the end of the lesson , Katharine was beaming from ear to ear . |
| 5 | We took the route through Cheapside because the Thames was frozen from bank to bank , past the mansions of the rich , the stalls full of fripperies , the mouldering Eleanor Cross and the great Conduit which was supposed to bring fresh water into the city . |
| 6 | The Witham was frozen from bank to bank from Lincoln to Boston . |
| 7 | At the same time Mavis Muyunda was moved from Health to the Ministry of Water , Lands and Natural Resources and was replaced by her deputy , Jeremiah Chijikwa . |
| 8 | Wilson was remanded in custody to Belfast Magistrate 's Court on September 17 . |
| 9 | Sole practitioner John Patrick O'Donnell was committed for trial to Southwark Crown Court at a hearing at Horseferry Magistrates Court last month . |
| 10 | My interest in China was increased from time to time by my acquaintance with a Cantonese who operated a shoe repair shop on the High Street . |
| 11 | The minute his attention was removed to the next , Kennedy was appraised from head to foot . |
| 12 | Li Changchun was shifted from Liaoning to Henan , replacing Cheng Weigao who went to Hebei . |
| 13 | Chilled PX Budweiser was drunk in preference to the local Adnams bitter , best mince was called ‘ ground beef ’ and the East Anglian Daily Times was only bought to find out what time the Bears were playing the Steelers on Channel 4 . |
| 14 | The first of those from Viola was addressed in fact to ‘ Dear Walter and Hilda ’ , but it was not difficult to guess that it was intended primarily for Walter 's eyes . |
| 15 | On his surrender Noriega was transported by helicopter to the nearby Howard Air Force Base in Panama , and there he was turned over to representatives of the US Drug Enforcement Agency . |
| 16 | Meanwhile Roe 's Macclesfield Company 's activities continued at Coniston and output figures in John Moore 's estate book are provided below , Moore was acting as steward to Sir Michael le Fleming and this was a position of great trust . |
| 17 | At two Mina was passed from father to husband . |
| 18 | As a result , one of the DCs was submitted for assessment to this person ; the other DC was agreed immediately since it affected no other package . |
| 19 | Mr Crangle was grinning from ear to ear . |
| 20 | Mr Crangle was rushing from place to place checking the details of his plan . |
| 21 | The former mill town of Earby was chosen for proximity to Barnoldswick and its Rolls Royce aero-engine plant , which meant a pool of vital skills |
| 22 | Jobs said at Comdex that NeXTStep was created in answer to the problem of ever-increasing amounts of code necessary for today 's increasingly complex applications — with NeXTStep 's object-oriented development tools , custom applications can be written up to 10 times faster than for MS-DOS or Windows , have greater quality and reliability , 83% fewer lines of code , at a 90% cost saving . |
| 23 | Cherry was airlifted by helicopter to the city 's University Hospital . |
| 24 | On April 27 Banda announced another Cabinet dissolution ; in the new Cabinet announced on May 2 , Mwakikunga was moved from Health to Community Services , in an exchange of portfolios with Katola Phiri , and Bwanali was dropped from the Cabinet , with his portfolio of Local Government taken by Minister of Forestry and Natural Resources Stanford Demba . |
| 25 | From 1699 onwards , when A. A. Matveev was sent as minister to the United Provinces , a network of diplomatic representatives abroad comparable in its extent and efficiency to that of any European State was rapidly created . |
| 26 | From there , Mr Major was flown by helicopter to the Whitbread Hop Farm in a more attractive part of the county . |
| 27 | Laura was trembling from head to toe . |
| 28 | Michael Joyce was known as landlord to the Royal Irish Constabulary in the town . |
| 29 | Unable to come in for a presentation , Archie was visited at home to be given a retirement gift from the company and one from his colleagues . |
| 30 | Nina was passed from person to person . |