Example sentences of "[noun prp] was [verb] to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Lubbock was returned to Parliament in 1881 , he persuaded Gladstone 's Liberal government to take up the cause . |
| 2 | Some writers have said that Eleanor was driven to violence by Henry 's adulteries , culminating in his open attachment to Rosamund Clifford . |
| 3 | Richard was stabbed to death in the back garden of his home in Newtown 4 weeks ago . |
| 4 | The LDP was returned to power at the general election of Feb. 18 , 1990 [ see pp. 37237-38 ] . |
| 5 | His later Lives do not inspire great confidence in their historical details about a young king seeking the hand of Offa 's daughter in marriage and falling a victim to the machinations of Queen Cynethryth , who alleged that Aethelberht 's real intention was to reconnoitre the Mercian kingdom with a view to invading it , and when the Chronicon ex Chronicis also claims that Aethelberht was put to death by Offa at the instigation of Queen Cynethryth it is not necessarily independent of the legend . |
| 6 | Nor will the East End map show the Stoke Newington house where Jack ‘ The Hat ’ McVitie was stabbed to death by Reggie through the eye , neck and stomach . |
| 7 | Ulster champion jockey Paddy Graffin was taken to hospital with an injured hand after Late Stretch had fallen in the Mares Race , but he returned in time to ride Glenmavis in the final race . |
| 8 | Like Multitude and Solitude , it is an early exploration of the quest-adventure , man 's search for beauty as an ideal in human form , which Masefield was to bring to fruition in two later novels , Sard Harker and Odtaa . |
| 9 | In 1961 , Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann was sentenced to death for war crimes . |
| 10 | Jay Kelly Pinkerton was sentenced to death in Texas for a murder committed when he was 17 years old . |
| 11 | Marcos ruled the Philippines for 20 years before Mrs Aquino was swept to office on a wave of ‘ people power ’ in 1986 . |
| 12 | The issue has divided the country more than any since Mrs Aquino was swept to office on a wave of ‘ people power ’ in 1986 . |
| 13 | SEXY Top Of The Pops star Claudia Simon was rushed to hospital in agony after eating some dodgy olives . |
| 14 | Legend has it that Sarah Helen was put to death in her home town of Blackburn for practising witchcraft , locked alive inside a lead coffin . |
| 15 | As we have already noted , Stephen was stoned to death within a short time of the Crucifixion , and Saul of Tarsus was pursuing Nazareans in Damascus . |
| 16 | Penkovsky was sentenced to death with enormous publicity about his espionage activities . |
| 17 | TUBE passenger Jonathan Zito was stabbed to death in front of his brother just after they had been reunited for Christmas . |
| 18 | Vennard got 18 months for ‘ a deliberate and dangerous act ’ and Smillie was sent to prison for nine months . |
| 19 | Mr Brock was taken to hospital by ambulance . |
| 20 | Dic Bach y Saer was put to bed by the older children he so serenely neglected , whispering , ‘ I 've got children in a thousand , good as gold . ’ |
| 21 | When PC Keith Blakelock was stabbed to death on 6 October 1985 during the rioting in the Broadwater Farm Estate he was the first Metropolitan policeman to be killed in a riot since PC Culley in 1833 . |
| 22 | PC Blakelock was hacked to death in the Tottenham riots of 1985 . |
| 23 | TROY was sentenced to death on his 16th birthday . |
| 24 | Possibly the first Inn was the Five Bells , which was probably the ale house mentioned in 1586 , when William Cokar of Halling was sent to gaol for keeping an ale house and allowing gambling i.e. maintaining play at the dice of his own authority as a result of which he was bound , over to the next Sessions . |
| 25 | TROPICAL-fish keeper Ian Durnall was flown to hospital after being stung by his pet lion fish . |
| 26 | Jesus was invited to dinner at the house of Simon the Pharisee ( see also Luke 11:37 ; 14:1 ) . |
| 27 | At Oxford Crown court today Langton was sent to prison for ten years … |
| 28 | 29 year old Steven Mynott was sentenced to life in 1980 for the murder of a 54 year old man . |
| 29 | HOLLYWOOD hunk Jean Claude Van Damme was rushed to hospital after suffering a suspected heart attack . |
| 30 | These were accepted by the judges as signs of his madness , and in the end Boldwood was sent to prison for life . |