Example sentences of "she [was/were] [vb pp] [prep] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was transferred from home to a private rehabilitation centre , but she was not happy there because she had little privacy , and her family could not travel to see her every day . |
| 2 | She was sentenced for life to be Clare 's younger sister in his eyes . |
| 3 | Hannah explained that it was one of the elegant gifts that her mother had brought down when she was given in marriage to her half-cousin ( on the Tallentire side of the family ) , William Bayles Hauxwell . |
| 4 | Six months before she was due to be released she was assessed for admission to a special hospital , at the request of the prison psychiatrist ; two months later she was transferred to Moss Side hospital . |
| 5 | She was flown by helicopter to hospital in Orlando . |
| 6 | She was flown by helicopter to hospital in Orlando . |
| 7 | She was painted from head to foot in red . |
| 8 | It was in 1956 that Leigh-born Dorothy first joined the typing pool at the UKAEA and it was n't long before she was promoted as secretary to Jim Stewart , then Head of the Authority . |
| 9 | She was swathed from neck to knee in what appeared to be a ‘ coat ’ of many colours . |
| 10 | Anyway she was promised for lunch to Sir Ralph Grunte . |
| 11 | Then she was driven without fuss to the Dove House hospice at Hull . |
| 12 | She was passed from hand to hand . |
| 13 | In Wensleydale , Bolton Castle looks across the broad valley to Penhill , which , legend has it , was once the haunt of a fierce giant , while the castle itself is the place where Mary Queen of Scots was placed under house arrest before she was taken to London to be executed . |
| 14 | When Eva was three years old she was taken by train to the city . |
| 15 | She was wrapped from head to foot in an old-fashioned opera cloak , of blue velvet . |