Example sentences of "was [noun] [prep] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was case of trolley to lolly . ’ |
| 2 | I was second at Cosford to Earl Tulloch , 21.9 seconds to his 21.7 . |
| 3 | The powerful 20-year-old from Wigan , who set a new British record of 44.47secs in Barcelona and went one better than Black by reaching the final , was second in 45.44secs to Barcelona bronze medallist , Kenyan Samson Kitur . |
| 4 | The powerful 20-year-old from Wigan , who set a new British record of 44.47secs in Barcelona and went one better than Black by reaching the final , was second in 45.44secs to Barcelona bronze medallist , Kenyan Samson Kitur . |
| 5 | At the Times-Herald he was second in command to Mr Thomas Miller , the owner and proprietor of the newspaper . |
| 6 | All they could do was work from day to day , from performance to performance , and through the second week , Charles started to feel his confidence in the part building up again . |
| 7 | The whole thing was nonsense from start to finish . |
| 8 | He was page of honour to George II ; from January 1760 cornet of the Royal Horse Guards ; from March 1762 captain of the 58th Foot ( a nominal appointment , this regiment then being in America ) ; then , from August of that year , lieutenant and captain of the 1st Foot Guards ( Grenadiers ) . |
| 9 | For some part of the next three decades he was chaplain in London to Denzil , first Baron Holles of Ifield ( whose will he witnessed in 1670 ) , and to Sir John Maynard [ qq.v. ] , both parliamentarian veterans . |
| 10 | In evidence earlier this week Lord Aldington , 75 , formerly Brigadier Toby Lowe , who was chief of staff to General Sir Charles Keightley , commander of the British Army 's V Corps in Allied occupied Austria , said he had not known until 1979 what had happened happened to the Yugoslavs when they were handed over to the forces of Marshall Tito . |
| 11 | John Ellis , who was Under-Secretary of State to William , had one brother who was a Secretary to James and another who was a Catholic bishop . |
| 12 | In 1733 , the great riding master Francois Robichon de la Guérinière , who was master of horse to King Louis XV of France , produced his book Ecole de Cavalerie . |
| 13 | Rigge v. Bell ( 1793 ) 5 Durn. & E. 471 a parol agreement for a seven-year lease did not comply with the Statute of Frauds 1677 but the tenant entered and paid a yearly rent and it was held that he was tenant from year to year on the terms of the agreement . |
| 14 | It was time for farewell to England and a brief return to Australia for a much-needed holiday . |