Example sentences of "was [adv] [verb] to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peppard Golf Club was slowly grinding to a half ( blitzed Londoners were housed in the simple wooden clubhouse ) and two of its trophies were sent to Henley , a more durable looking Club . |
| 2 | Moreover he was perversely drawn to a man so apt to be hated . |
| 3 | The contract was eventually granted to a company from Australia , which , although a member of COCOM , was not a member of NATO . |
| 4 | And like any dangerous idea , this one was eventually referred to a committee . |
| 5 | The mill saw some use for storage and was eventually converted to a dwelling during the late 1940s . |
| 6 | It was eventually converted to a corn mill , operated during the 1880s by George Lewis who was followed around the turn of the century by Mr J. Nicholls . |
| 7 | The source of the leak was eventually traced to a vent which had been left open , and firemen hosed down the affected areas . |
| 8 | The source of the leak was eventually traced to a vent which had been left open , and firemen hosed down the affected areas . |
| 9 | From drifting happily from mountain to mountain with equally impecunious friends , Joe was suddenly elevated to a position where his life was no longer his own . |
| 10 | Still shaken , Woodfull picked up his bat again , but the roars of the crowd increased in intensity during the first ball of the next over when the offside field was suddenly changed to a legside field . |
| 11 | A MAJOR row blew up last night after the Queen 's Christmas Day speech was apparently leaked to a newspaper . |
| 12 | Daisy , taking advantage of the disturbance , was adding gleefully to the chaos by bleating continuously , and rushing round and round in circles so that her tethering chain was soon shortened to a couple of feet . |
| 13 | Henry 's eldest son married Agnes , Barbarossa 's niece and the Guelph and Ghibelline feud was thus brought to a close . |
| 14 | The limousine was finally slowing to a halt and they scrambled for their shoes . |
| 15 | He arrived at Homestead Air Force Base in Florida in the early hours of Jan. 4 , and was finally transferred to a cell in the basement of the Miami federal courthouse . |
| 16 | He was finally apprenticed to a cordwainer or master shoe-maker . |
| 17 | This will not affect anyone who was already contributing to a pension plan prior to July 1988 unless , that is , they actually wish to change . |
| 18 | Ada was helping her father , the local postman , and had to run the house for her old mother ; Nives had opened a hairdresser 's shop ; and Nora was already apprenticed to a tailor , |
| 19 | The other end was already harnessed to a team of horses , so it was easy work pulling off the entire roof in one smack . |
| 20 | He knew exactly where to look for the nest of any bird we were likely to come across and by certain local circumstances was unerringly guided to a nest hidden deep perhaps in a thorn bush … . |
| 21 | I was not referring to a press report of the Robert George case . |
| 22 | But the monopoly of transmission was not extended to a programme monopoly . |
| 23 | Tolkien was not writing to a thesis . |
| 24 | The large numbers involved in the various institutions of decision-taking and law-making , the principle of ( usually annual ) rotation among office-holders , and the choice of members of these bodies by lot rather than election , all ensured that participation was not confined to a minority of activists but was spread across the whole citizen body . |
| 25 | It is equally clear that the antonym of namely was not confined to a class of medrese , as in all likelihood was , or came to be , but had a much wider usage as an essentially geographical term . |
| 26 | A problem immediately arises , however , because it is clear from both Ali and Ata'i that the term was not confined to a grade of medreses , as probably was , or came to be , but retained a wider geographical significance , referring simply to the three cities and their environs . |
| 27 | ACONTRACT worth up to £20 million for running a new social security computer centre was yesterday awarded to a non-union , American-based company without any other bids being invited . |
| 28 | I was once invited to a weekend conference of ‘ rural women ’ to give a workshop on astrology . |
| 29 | This was once fitted to a range of IH tractors from 80–200hp , so Mr Tomlinson knew it would be strong enough to take the power from the engine . |
| 30 | One of Niki 's tactics in that elaborate form of board game called ‘ driver negotiations ’ ( i.e. how does a driver get the best car and the most money ? ) was always to talk to a lot of teams , hinting , not so subtly , that ‘ if the package was right ’ , he could be seduced . |