Example sentences of "was [verb] to [pron] [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was n't as if she was attracted to him as an individual . |
| 2 | The opening of the Scherzo sounds remarkably like the twittering of birds in the trees , something I first noticed when it was played to me on an 1820s Graaf piano similar to the one owned by Schubert . |
| 3 | Simon Brown J. cited no authority for this dictum , so far as it related to the possibility of supervisory jurisdiction of the High Court over the visitors to the Inns of Court , but it was cited to us as an example of a suggested parallel with the supervisory jurisdiction which the High Court undoubtedly exercises in other contexts which in some respects may be thought to be comparable . |
| 4 | Later a sketch of a reusable coffin was sent to me by an interested correspondent . |
| 5 | This was sent to them with an information leaflet . |
| 6 | It was suggested to me by an Italian recipe for a sauce or relish called sapore de morone which appears in Epulario , first published in Venice in 1516 . |
| 7 | It was described to us by an experienced wildlife film-maker , Alastair MacEwen , who was filming house martins with a high speed camera . |