Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [adv] to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : ‘ There were more than a dozen enquiries about the tender and this was whittled down to a list of six . |
| 2 | The rest was given over to a bowling green and a large expanse of lawn ; the potential for change was enormous . |
| 3 | In one well-remembered case Eleanor 's father , Duke William X , had tried to insist that he should have the marriage of the probable heiress to the Viscount of Limoges , but the nobles of the Limousin , fearing " the Poitevin yoke " , successfully resisted this demand and she was given instead to a Count of Angoulême . |
| 4 | To produce the latter the inner coffin was placed on to a width of lead which was then cut so as to be three inches larger all round than the coffin itself ; this was then turned up and tacked to the wood . |
| 5 | I was marched down to A block [ punishment ] . |
| 6 | Her husband , who has been ill recently , was hustled off to a chair in the corner . |
| 7 | The power lift appears to have worked with a cable attached to the rear of the plough , which was raised as the other end of the cable was wound on to a shaft . |
| 8 | The current in the electric fence surrounding that particular field had been turned off , since the bull was made fast to a stake by a thick rope . |
| 9 | The lack of progress was attributed partly to a delay of two weeks in setting up the joint working commissions whose task was to implement the Accord under UN auspices . |
| 10 | His debt gathering work was handed over to a colleague once the legal aspects of it had been sorted out . |
| 11 | A CHEQUE for £250 was handed over to a group of intrepid disabled skiers at Lord Mayor Treloar 's College , Froyle , this week . |
| 12 | Undoubtedly Richard was handed over to a wet-nurse . |
| 13 | Three weeks ago I was invited down to a meeting of water workers . |
| 14 | The body was still twitching when it was flung on to a table and the head hacked off , blood spurting like a fountain . |
| 15 | Her toe was rigged up to a bell , and she would ring this , using a number code to spell out messages , and by this means she was thus able to communicate her needs , and keep up some sort of conversation . |
| 16 | In the north of England , Theophilus Shelton , Esquire , recorded at Darrington ( a small town located just north of 53 degrees 40 minutes latitude , near the city of Leeds ) that the Sun — was reduced almost to a Point , which both in Colour and Size resembled the planet Mars ’ . |
| 17 | As I say it was tapped on to a row . |
| 18 | AZT was approved in the United States in 1987 for use after symptoms of AIDS have appeared , after a controlled trial was brought prematurely to an end when it emerged that the treated group was doing better than the placebo groups . |
| 19 | Dean White , 23 , from Chepstow , Gwent , who suffered cracked ribs and bruising , was swept on to a mudbank in the dark and found by members of the Army Apprentice College at Chepstow , after coastguards with spotlights and a helicopter with heat-searching equipment had searched without success . |
| 20 | A few minutes later I was led away to a cell . |
| 21 | The heavy material was carted down to a quay on the lake shore , adjacent to Coniston Hall , which had been specially constructed by the company . |
| 22 | In the event of any failure of the electricity supply so generated , all the lighting was switched automatically to a supply from batteries , which were kept fully charged . |
| 23 | The girl 's pink and white candy stripe skirt ( 26 stitches × 15 rows ) was removed on to a length of yarn so that the top could be drawn up and stitched in position around the waist ; the sides and hem of the skirt were then stitched down and a pink bow was added . |
| 24 | This roused the Ruffians from their lethargy and they were unlucky not to be level when a Sharman shot was deflected on to a post . |
| 25 | No it 's , I think it was taken away to a museum was n't it ? |
| 26 | He did not actually suggest communication between continents with the aid of geostationary satellites , but if he was taken now to a satellite ground-station he would not be numbed with astonishment . |
| 27 | But the attitude of the civic authorities towards the public display of freaks was becoming increasingly severe , and Merrick was passed on to an Austrian or Italian manager , who took him on tour in Europe . |
| 28 | A barium meal was ordered and the woman was thrown on to a trolley and forced to endure indignities ( being shouted at , roughly handled , and left in a draughty corridor with only me to help her ) at the hands of a very senior consultant radiologist . |
| 29 | When Curtis had gone Wycliffe asked the operator to get Sidney Passmore 's number and he was put through to a woman who spoke with self-conscious refinement . |
| 30 | I cos I ca n't picture another stone you know on any other roadsides and I 've been on plenty that and I travel and no and I can never know of another st stone that was put up to a tramp . |