Example sentences of "was [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Numerous operations were performed , until , as Charlie says , ‘ I was eventually shipped back to the States on the Queen Mary and was so happy to see the Statue of Liberty again . |
| 2 | This division of the sky was eventually carried over to the division of the circle and so led to our present habit of dividing the complete ( two-dimensional ) angle around a point into 360 degrees . |
| 3 | In recession large firms concentrate more output within their own plant where economies of scale yield lower average costs compared to labour intensive subcontractors The advantages of a flexible industrial structure was greatly assisted up to the 1970s by a protected home market which gave companies a secure domestic base . |
| 4 | Cairns , convinced an earlier declaration could have given Notts a chance of victory , at one stage squatted in mid-pitch with his head in his hands and was only directed back to the middle after setting off for the pavilion . |
| 5 | When Leo made some small movement , she was suddenly brought back to the present and became mortifyingly aware that she had just emptied her heart to a virtual stranger . |
| 6 | Much of the meeting was apparently given over to the specific role X/Open will play . |
| 7 | Much of the meeting was apparently given over to the specific role that X/Open will play . |
| 8 | She was soon invited back to the house at Paulton 's Square , where she found Laura ‘ motherly , warm , interested in what you were doing and a marvellous person to chat to . |
| 9 | The battle for political supremacy was thus carried over to the Congress itself . |
| 10 | The result was the meaty and woolly Southdown sheep , whose extensive use kept the local downland primarily as pasture , unlike chalkland elsewhere , which was largely given over to the plough in the later eighteenth century . |
| 11 | A shepherd with his stick , solitary , was already wrapped up to the eyes in his striped poncho , the only true centre of his eccentric flock . |
| 12 | At this conference in November , an agreement was laboriously worked out to the effect that Zimbabwe would shortly gain its legal independence . |
| 13 | having your normal period was n't ever mentioned , I was just sent along to the lav , my sister came with me , she said ‘ you wear this ’ , and that was that — My mother never even mentioned it … you got married and you had children , I did n't know there was such a thing that you could not have them and it just went on and on . |
| 14 | Resplendent in traditional training scheme of silver with yellow T-bands , Vampire T.11 XD434 was formally handed back to the Fenland Aviation Museum on September 30 after restoration at RAF Marham . |
| 15 | Middlesbrough prop Phil Wright was yesterday called on to the Yorkshire bench , where he will join his former clubmate Jim Chapman . |
| 16 | Having been offered shelter by one of the Armstrongs , Hector of Hardlaw , whom he had helped some years previously , he was treacherously handed over to the Earl of Moray , Regent of Scotland since Mary 's enforced abdication . |
| 17 | It was still switched through to the secretary 's office , and it took an infuriatingly long time to get a line . |
| 18 | Poor Martha Lamb was having her fourth baby and was probably hustled up to the attic rooms on the floor above out of earshot ; the child , a boy , was born during the night . |
| 19 | Dodman was driving a van which was being loaded with the stolen property which was later traced back to the burglary at Victoria Wines . |
| 20 | LEFT : Merrets Mill was used as a cloth mill but was later turned over to the production of flock , shoddy and mill puff , by the Grist family . |
| 21 | Mr Williams was taken to Darlington Memorial Hospital and he was later allowed back to the hotel . |
| 22 | The earliest area of crofts may have been situated on a bluff west of the church , while an extended area was later laid out to the north around a triangular green , with an earlier Norman manor house going out of use at the same time . |
| 23 | Gas was also laid on to the clubhouse replacing paraffin oil for lighting . |
| 24 | What remained of the gardens was now given over to the university 's botany department , and so the building had been able to retain much of its outward character . |
| 25 | The remainder was immediately sent on to the appropriate numbered Swiss account . ’ |
| 26 | I 'd heard most of the words that ‘ Jaz ’ used to express his feelings at his misfortune ; the Head 's wife had n't , apparently , since ‘ Jaz ’ was immediately dragged off to the Head 's office to ‘ explain himself ’ . |
| 27 | Briefly , a known excess of H + ions ( 250 µl of 0.1 M H 2 SO 4 =50 µEq H + ) was added to 2 ml of sample and 5 ml of deionised H 2 O. This was gassed with CO 2 free nitrogen ( washed through saturated barium hydroxide solution ) for five minutes to remove dissolved CO 2 from the sample , which was then titrated up to the reaction endpoint at pH 8.4 ( pH meter PHM 82 linked to an autoburette ABU 80 and controlled by an autotitrator TTT 80 all units Radiometer , Copenhagen ) with 15 mM NaOH . |
| 28 | If they were grubby , you were told to put your hand out and you had a cut with cane , a punishment which was then meted out to the other hand , followed by the order — ‘ Go and wash ’ . |
| 29 | John Stratford , the Bishop of Winchester , had not been the king 's candidate for the see and had had to buy the king 's good will for £1,000 , which was then paid over to the younger Despenser ; and the Bishop of Norwich had been the victim of the king 's annoyance about the treaty with Charles IV in 1325 , which the bishop had helped to negotiate . |
| 30 | A high-pass filter was used to isolate the local ( high-frequency ) variation which was then added back to the image so that the local component was effectively doubled , thus amplifying or exaggerating its importance . |