Example sentences of "[vb pp] to [pron] [noun] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My Aunt Belle was confined to her bed for many years , ’ Finch said , blowing his nose in his health . |
| 2 | We pray for those who are confined to their homes for long periods . |
| 3 | Most prisoners are confined to their cells for long periods of time . |
| 4 | Then I thought it might be an in-body experience — that my soul was to be confined to my body for some sinister theological reason. , |
| 5 | On one occasion when Tolkien tore a ligament playing squash , and was told that he would be confined to his bed for ten weeks , Lewis went to see him — but , as Warnie recorded , he ‘ found Madame [ i.e. Tolkien 's wife ] there , so could not have much conversation with him ’ . |
| 6 | She must have talked to your mother for some time , she must have let something slip . ’ |
| 7 | It was the first time that Ethel had been summoned to her form-mistress for any reason other than praise . |
| 8 | An early contestant for the role of heir apparent , Aleke Banda , a minister in the 1960s , was restricted to his village for several years before being partially rehabilitated only to fall in disgrace again in the mid 1980s . |
| 9 | The patient was referred to our hospital for further evaluation and treatment . |
| 10 | I even wore those same trainers that had been glued to my feet for four and a half months . |
| 11 | When I was a child I once went round the house tearing all the stickers off ; I was belted and sent to my room for two days . |
| 12 | Much of the critical attention paid to its implications for special education has centred on the procedures by which children can be excluded from the ‘ common entitlement ’ through the disapplications and modifications permitted by the Act ( Norwich 1989 , Tomlinson 1990 ) . |
| 13 | He had been married to my mother for fifteen years and had been called a bad husband , whereas she had been what is known as a good wife . |
| 14 | THE housebuilder Bellway yesterday joined the lengthening queue of UK companies that have returned to their shareholders for fresh equity with a £33.6 million rights issue , writes Richard Shackleton . |