Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [coord] [verb] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The melon was boiled and brought to Dot next dinner time with her chicken broth all around like a shattered building surrounded by deep trenches full of murky rainwater . |
| 2 | Mr Mutambara tried to escape by jumping from a second-floor window , but he was caught and taken to hospital with unspecified injuries . |
| 3 | Last August , Holland 1 was lifted and taken to Devonport Dockyard . |
| 4 | With no waste of time all the equipment was installed and set to work . |
| 5 | ‘ The Spectra-Tek system was designed and built to standards of 20 years ago . |
| 6 | In April a Kuwaiti airliner was hijacked and flown to North East Iran . |
| 7 | To the remaining 100 ml of blood 10 ml of 6% hydroxyethyl starch ( Hespan , Dupont , USA ) was added and left to sediment at room temperature . |
| 8 | According to a member of the Lebanese Security Services they were transferred to Libya , where the RCF had its headquarters , and on Jan. 8 the Phalangist Radio Free Lebanon reported that Walid Khaled , the RCF spokesman in Lebanon , said they had been " moved to a friendly country in preparation " ; on Jan. 12 Sa'id was paroled and sent to Libya , and the hostages were handed over to the Belgian government . |
| 9 | Butterfield was injured and taken to hospital . |
| 10 | He told me that the sacred water was bottled and sold to Irishmen all over the world for its healing powers . |
| 11 | It is known that shortly after its discovery , a copy , now lost , was made and sent to Spain . |
| 12 | Harte was freed and flew to Ireland , where he was arrested on arrival in Dublin . |
| 13 | Polyadenylated RNA was selected and converted to cDNA ( Perkin Elmer PCR/RNA kit ) . |
| 14 | She was a devout Anabaptist and befriended James Burton , who was involved in the Rye House Plot , and gave him sanctuary , but she was betrayed and taken to London , where she was tried and became the last woman to be burnt at the stake at Tyburn on 16th October , 1685 . |
| 15 | The chipboard was measured and cut to size and screwed into the wall using small plastic brackets for strength and speed . |
| 16 | In about 1522 Tyndale was ordained and returned to Gloucestershire as chaplain and tutor to the children of Sir John Walsh , a substantial landlord . |
| 17 | The photo was produced and given to Rachaela . |
| 18 | This was acquired by the British Museum last year , 176 years after the frieze itself was bought and transported to London by the British government . |
| 19 | The victim was drowned and boiled to death at the same time . |
| 20 | It was bounded and threatened to south and east by the forces of Islam , which were eventually to submerge the ancient eastern Christian Empire with its capital in Constantinople . |
| 21 | A VICAR yesterday called for mass action to stamp out crime on an estate where good neighbour Les Reed was kicked and beaten to death as he tackled vandals . |
| 22 | Police say the 45year-old ex-steelworker was kicked and beaten to death when he tried to stop a gang of vandals near his home . |
| 23 | The Shah rejected more advice to kill him , but Khomeini was arrested and banished to Turkey . |
| 24 | Howard evaded the FBI and managed to escape to Russia but Pelton was arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment in 1986 . |
| 25 | ’ Michael Collier 's mistake was to have survived into prosaic Victorian times , whereupon he was arrested and sent to Australia . |
| 26 | Selkirk fled to Paris , left his so called secret at St Denis and went to Le Coq d'Or where he was arrested and taken to England . ’ |
| 27 | He was arrested and taken to Alton police station . |
| 28 | A man was arrested and taken to hospital with a head injury . |
| 29 | The eruption of Mount Pinatubo injected between 15 and 30Mt of SO 2 into the stratosphere ; SO 2 was oxidized and converted to sulphate aerosols in one or two months . |
| 30 | He was tried and condemned to death , but spared because of Edward 's former affection for him and because of his marriage to the king 's niece . |