Example sentences of "[vb past] to the [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The lady betrothed to the newly created Khan of the province of Khitai , her face flushed with suppressed laughter , was also trying to make herself heard .
2 In a drift away from the Auld Alliance , leading magnates appealed to the newly crowned Queen Elizabeth of England to help rid them of the French .
3 Douglas Hurd came to the newly christened Oxford Brookes University … formerly the Polytechnic … to inaugurate an annual lecture series … named for him …
4 In 1789 the cahiers ( statements of grievances ) submitted to the newly summoned States-General from the Béarn and Bigorre areas in the Pyrenees included demands for clearer delimitation of the frontier with Spain , and those from Bresse , in south-eastern France , for further tidying-up of the boundary with Savoy .
5 The way in which Germanisation was carried out gave to the newly released serfs , the put-upon peasantry , the tiny Polish middle class which felt itself to be discriminated against , and the ambitious and inflexible Polish nobility a rallying point — probably their only rallying point .
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