Example sentences of "she [was/were] [verb] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She spoke as if she were admitting to a considerable lapse of manners on her part . |
| 2 | Within a few hours she was transferred to the neurosurgical unit at Addenbrookes hospital , Cambridge . |
| 3 | That night Miss T. 's condition deteriorated and she was transferred to the intensive care unit . |
| 4 | Purchased for preservation by Roger Crombleholme in 1964 , she was moved to the then embryonic Worth Valley Railway and was steamed in February 1968 . |
| 5 | USAF officials originally placed her at Edwards AFB but she was moved to the nearby March facility for restoration and display . |
| 6 | During the long period of her recovery , Dawn understandably had bouts of severe depression , so at one stage she was referred to a clinical psychologist for counselling . |
| 7 | She was moving to the great gates and before Maggie could react the white-gowned figure had gone around the corner and out of sight . |
| 8 | Her level of engagement shows that she was involved to a greater extent over a much larger part of the day . |
| 9 | She was tied to a sacrificial altar . |
| 10 | She was reacting to the soft note in his voice , letting it wash over her and slow down the beat of her heart . |
| 11 | She was rushed to the nearest hospital . |
| 12 | She was rushed to the Royal Alexandra Hospital , where she was put on a life support machine . |
| 13 | Little that is definite is known of her early years , except that she was said to have been a backward child ; that she was sent to a private school , Hope House , in Taunton ; that she broke away from the family tradition of Methodism and became an Anglican ; and that she came to the attention of Dorothea Beale [ q.v. ] , and taught at Cheltenham Ladies ' College from 1877 until 1881 . |
| 14 | Although Joan mostly worked as a Spool Setter , she became an Axminster Winding Instructor for a period during which she was sent to a subsidiary company in Holland ( Bergos Stoddard ) for a number of weeks . |
| 15 | She was sent to a local predominantly majority school in Washington , and although credible from a political point of view , the move presented the impressionable girl with a confusing and often unstable lifestyle . |
| 16 | She was invited to a few parties , kissed good-night outside her door in South Kensington , taken out to lunch by a young man training to be a chartered accountant , and to an Italian film by another who was ‘ in the City ’ ; she was beginning to forget about Rupert when one evening towards the end of January she was later than usual leaving Toogood and Shelve , the publishers , where she worked as secretary to Mr Shelve . |
| 17 | But it just happened to be her best friend 's birthday and she was invited to a special birthday tea and to stay overnight . ’ |
| 18 | She was elected to the Labour party national executive committee in 1947 and remained an MP until 1970 , despite an attempt by her local party to oust her in 1955 because of her right-wing position . |
| 19 | She was elected to an honorary fellowship of Girton College in 1913 . |
| 20 | The Ithusheng Community Association was founded more than 10 years ago by well-known South African physician and political activist Dr Mamphela Ramphele , when she was banished to the rural village of Lenyenye in one of the so-called black homelands in the North Eastern Transvaal . |
| 21 | Melissa took a step forward and saw that she was clinging to the cast-iron pillar with both hands , her face half hidden among the foliage , her shoulders heaving . |
| 22 | In February 1940 she was writing to the Chief Rabbi to report on two of Solomon Schonfeld 's children who had turned up unannounced at Bloomsbury House . |
| 23 | He 'd managed to track her down on the Friday evening , waiting for several minutes as she was summoned to the communal phone in the hall where she was now a deputy warden . |
| 24 | She was appointed to the Foreign Office 's advisory committee on the Boxer indemnity fund in 1925 and made two visits to China ( 1926 and 1930–1 ) . |
| 25 | Stupidly , she had hoped that Silas would invite her to sit at his table , but instead she was led to a small one by a girl she later learned to be Stella 's daughter , Jean . |
| 26 | For a moment , when Miles had looked so meltingly at her as those words poured from him , it seemed as though he were speaking to her , and the dark , wet night simply faded away from around her , and she was transported to a warm summer garden on the night of a Royal Ball . |
| 27 | Helen , of Moulton Grove , Fairfield , Stockton , burst into tears and had to be supported by relatives after being told she was going to a young offenders institution . |
| 28 | The following morning , accompanied at Aunt Emily 's command by a trembling Lyddy who was sure she was going to the very mouth of Hades , Alexandra was driven out to Trelorne , dressed very much as she had been when she trespassed along the shore . |
| 29 | So she was going to the opposite direction actually , and I insisted that I do n't want to take her that long she would have to walk back again . |
| 30 | Sub pose she was left to the last ! |