Example sentences of "she [was/were] [verb] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was packed off to bed by midnight but Mrs Burrows often worked patiently on till the early hours of the morning . |
| 2 | Instead she was farmed out to family friends , Major Jeremy Whitaker , a photographer , and his wife Philippa who lived in Headley Bawden in Hampshire . |
| 3 | She was sent away to boarding-school . |
| 4 | Then she was whisked off to lunch at the clubhouse . |
| 5 | She was clinging desperately to normality and self-respect . |
| 6 | Naturally she had not wanted to go out with him , but both her mother and father stressed how nice it was of him to take such an interest in the fact that she was going off to university and wanted to take her to the pictures as a treat . |
| 7 | This now returned and it seemed that her meeting with Tom and Peter had been like a dream from which she was waking up to reality . |
| 8 | She was brought back to reality by the pain in her ankle which , without her realising , she 'd put her full weight on . |
| 9 | The nursing staff said she got off the delivery table herself , and could not understand why she was ordered back to bed . |
| 10 | She was coming down to earth . |