Example sentences of "were [verb] [noun] to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The day before we arrived in Gibraltar we received a signal from Admiral Sir James Somerville of Force ‘ H ’ who was in command of the operation , saying that on arrival in harbour we were to berth stern to stern to ‘ Ark Royal ’ so that some of our Hurricanes could be transferred to her and rolled off ‘ Furious ’ direct onto ‘ Ark Royal ’ . |
| 2 | Birmingham specialised in close , dark and filthy courtyards : there were over two thousand of these in the town in the 1830s , and many of their houses were built back to back in order to get the maximum number on to each expensive acre . |
| 3 | A bear had broken loose amongst the stews ; a whore was being whipped outside the gates of St Thomas 's Hospital ; two butchers who had sold putrid meat were riding back to back on some old nag , their hands tied behind them , the rotten offal they had sold fastened tightly under their noses . |
| 4 | SUMMERCHILD : Actually , I do feel a little as if I were coming face to face with my past in some kind of way . |
| 5 | Six people were found shot to death in an apartment in the crime-ridden South Bronx district of New York yesterday in a modern St Valentine 's Day massacre , police said . |
| 6 | One result of this moral panic was that , even as the anxiety mentioned by Furlong ( ibid. ) forced us to react to these public demands with some arrests , we insiders with ‘ special knowledge ’ , who were working face to face with the counter-culture , knew there was a different social reality abroad which we could never adequately explain to the entrepreneur or encapsulate for the media headline . |
| 7 | Of the 25 college and 20 special libraries that replied , the majority were already automated , and many others were planning conversion to automation in the near future . |