Example sentences of "and was [verb] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was up there for six weeks , I passed the course and was posted back to Brigade H Q to a wider posting to a regiment . |
| 2 | When young Thomas Carter returned from his duties about 10.00 , he was given bread and cheese for his lunch , and was Packed off to school with his brother . |
| 3 | In London in 1331 , he was engaged as master of the new work of the chapter house and cloister of St Paul 's Cathedral by June 1332 , and was to press on to completion , but the chapter house had not quite been finished in 1349 . |
| 4 | I was bored with Aubagne and was looking forward to Orange . |
| 5 | He had worked hard all his life and had served his country for four years and was looking forward to retirement in the home he had worked for all his days . |
| 6 | As we turned Bass Point with a good view of the Predannack helicopter base , my concentration was drawn by a helicopter which had lifted off and was heading out to sea , at our level and across our path . |
| 7 | He lived in a good loose-box , and was let out to water twice a day . |
| 8 | The alternative to the Protocols as a base to the conspiracy theory was the revival of the French counter-revolutionary tradition , which had been developed in the first articles in the ‘ Cause of World Unrest ’ disclosures in the Morning Post in July 1920 , and was handed down to posterity in more permanent form in Nesta Webster 's version of world history . |
| 9 | About two or three months after that , I got into trouble again and was taken back to prison . |
| 10 | ‘ He said he was feeling tired and was going home to bed . ’ |