Example sentences of "was [verb] to [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Mary Queen of Scots coin was given to her by well-wisher Jessie Brown , 40 , of South Carntyne , Glasgow . |
| 2 | Its name was given to it by Jesuit missionaries in South America who saw the flowers as a representation of the Crucifixion — the corona is the crown of thorns , the anthers the five wounds in the hands , feet and side of Christ , the three styles , the nails , the five petals and five sepals 10 of the disciples , less Peter and Judas , the hand-shaped leaves and tendrils the hands and whips of Christ 's torturers . |
| 3 | The ownership which the sellers were thus given in the handbags was not , however , reserved to the sellers but was granted to them by those who would otherwise have been the owners , namely the buyers of the leather . |
| 4 | but , I was listening to myself on that |
| 5 | What I was listening to myself on that . |
| 6 | A rough-coated collie called Tip , he was offered to me by some relatives down the dale whilst I still had Chip . |
| 7 | MI6 never appreciated the amount of opposition that existed within Germany to Hitler and the Nazi party in its early days and as a result failed to exploit the very considerable amount of information that was offered to it by well-placed anti-Nazi groups . |
| 8 | A story was told to me by one of these old beer runners . |
| 9 | Rosalba was drawn to her above all the other Marys in the province , far and above the Madonna of the Kneading Board , who had been washed ashore with the face of Our Lady in its grain , and who was her mother 's favourite , and hung in replica above her bed . |
| 10 | He was drawn to it in some weirdly obsessive , almost dangerous way . |
| 11 | The deal clearly does not work both ways as we learned from the Squidgy tape ( a copy of which was handed to me in that very restaurant some weeks before its contents were published ) . |
| 12 | A son , aptly named Arthur , was born to them in 1262 , described in a familiar and affectionate letter from Blanche , duchess of Brittany to Henry III as ‘ mout bon enffant et mout beil , la Dieu merci ’ . |
| 13 | Er it was volunteered to me before that day . |
| 14 | Even when she was flying to me from various positions , the slightest disturbance in the landscape might distract her attention . |
| 15 | She wondered why he was speaking to her in such a quiet , gentling tone , then realised how stiffly she was holding herself . |
| 16 | I was speaking to somebody about this er , a few days ago , and you know they said erm I said , in a way that does n't really apply today , because none of us like to think we 're bad . |
| 17 | Hamish Kidd — previously with Heidrick and Struggles — was introduced to them in 1978 , and it was agreed that he would work with them for a year with the aim of establishing that a sale could be arranged . |
| 18 | so all that writing is actually surrounding your picture is n't it , you 've come up with your sensational picture and then you surround your sensational picture with your writing , I was saying to him with these little sub-headings like trapped , right , cost , holiday , okay which actually keep your reader hooked and make them want to read on . |
| 19 | Lead words , if you want to sit down and , in , in general you see er , you want to just sit down and think about what you 're doing and what you 're not doing , you can sit down and exercise on these words , now I 'm not saying you 'd ever want to do that , right now if , now you know I was saying to you about comparative questions right |
| 20 | Legality was restored to them in 1935 . ) |
| 21 | The petition was not successful but a deputation to Sir James Graham , Home Secretary , in April 1842 received some encouragement and an amended petition and a draft of a Charter of Incorporation was submitted to him on 24 March 1843 . |
| 22 | It is probable that Sheffield did make a start , for a fresh lease was issued to him on 5 December 1806 for the remaining 18 years of his term by Lady Anne Frederica Elizabeth le Fleming — Sir Michael had died . |
| 23 | And then I was talking to somebody about this and they and they burst out laughing and said well we 've got a friend , a male friend a mate of mine he said and he loves walking . |
| 24 | Erm and when she was talking to me about different people , I 'd never know who they was , because I was never I was never that interested in Bay to er to find out who they was or to remember she 'd point out somebody and say that 's so and so and then when she 'd mention him a couple of days later I 'd go , Who 's that ? |
| 25 | I was talking to him about that and I got a totally different response from him that I expected did n't mind . |
| 26 | he was talking to her like seven years old . |
| 27 | If anyone from the group here met Kemp at 3 p.m. , it was n't Downes , because nine or ten of you here will willingly testify to the incontrovertible fact that he was talking to you from that time onwards . |
| 28 | The office of Earl Marshal was to all intents and purposes the heritable property of the Howard family , although it was lost to them for several decades after the attainder of the fourth Duke of Norfolk in 1572 . |
| 29 | A copy was sent to you with this guide . |
| 30 | I see from my files that we agreed to a slight change to the Agreement for the above tape , and a revised page 2 of the document was sent to you on 20 April . |