Example sentences of "[pron] was [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , on three occasions I was witness to CAMRA members complaining loudly that they should not have to queue as long as non-members to get in , or that only CAMRA members should be allowed to attend . |
| 2 | And then I was face to face with the biggest , and ugliest lad ever . |
| 3 | It was the largest I had ever seen , split up into walled units , ten of them Ward had said , and when I reached the western limit of it I was face to face with the heaving bulk of the ocean . |
| 4 | I was face to face with … |
| 5 | They paid me expenses which was expenses to hospital and I think gave me about thirty pound for maternity clothing and that was it . |
| 6 | She was secretary to Lady Margaret Hall from 1880 to 1914 and , as lady secretary to the AEW ( 1883–94 ) , was responsible for organizing tuition for women students and for supervising those not attached to a hall , who lived at home or with ‘ hostesses ’ in the city . |
| 7 | Later she transferred to BNFL where she was secretary to Con Allday for more than 16 years and then to Sir Christopher Harding . |
| 8 | ‘ She was wife to Will Halidon — ’ said Elizabeth Mowbray succinctly ‘ — not to your father . ’ |
| 9 | She was godmother to Julie 's 23-month-old daughter Sophie and Mr Godwin and Sophie had been due to fly out to join the group on Friday . |
| 10 | And then she was home to Lisbeg . |
| 11 | Since becoming MP for Surrey South West in 1983 Mrs Bottomley has moved through the Department of Education and Science , where she was PPS to Mr Chris Patten , to the Ministry for Overseas Development and the Foreign Office . |
| 12 | Currently she was Gertrude to Charsky 's Claudius . |
| 13 | Now for the first time she was face to face with fragmented suggestions of reality , distorted perhaps , like the sun glancing on water , but hinting at something very different from the fairy tale princess the child Harriet had claimed as her own . |
| 14 | For the first time in her life , Louisa had come into one of the dwellings of the Coketown Hands ; for the first time in her life , she was face to face with anything like individuality in connection with them . |
| 15 | Softly , so as not to wake him , she turned her long slim form until she was face to face with his sleeping figure . |
| 16 | She was face to face with Benedict and Merlyn Joseph . |
| 17 | And now she was face to face with a man who really believed her grandmother was guilty . |
| 18 | She pushed her way through the apprehensive nomes until she was face to face , or at least , since Nisodemus was standing on something and she was n't , face to chest . |
| 19 | Now that she was face to face with Bridget , her mind was fully engaged in a debate as to how much she should tell her friend about events in Paris . |
| 20 | Davidson , who was second to Richard Meade at Badminton 10 years ago on J J Babu , is among riders from 10 overseas countries taking on the British . |
| 21 | The priest Rumen , or Romanus , who was chaplain to King Oswy 's wife in the seventh century , probably gave his name to Romney Marsh , large areas of which he owned and may have farmed . |
| 22 | ROWEN SHEPHERD , Edinburgh Academicals ' stand-off , who was back-up to Craig Chalmers on Scotland 's tour to Canada and the United States last year , is turning to a new career at fullback . |
| 23 | Stephen Gardiner , who was Secretary to King Henry VIII , and Edward Foxe , the King 's Almoner , lodged there in attendance on the King , who had moved out of London . |
| 24 | Heide Schmidt , 43 , who was deputy to Haider in the FPÖ but on the party 's liberal wing and was described as a skilled politician respected outside the FPÖ , was nominated by the FPÖ on Nov. 21 . |
| 25 | Lake , the 24-year-old from Torquay , who was runner-up to Sarah Loosemore in 1988 , had precious few chances against an opponent in determined and dominant mood . |
| 26 | One was 6ft to 6ft 4 tall and very heavily built , the other was shorter and slimmer with black hair . |
| 27 | This could arise if an aircraft crashed and there was damage to houses in the area . |
| 28 | The storm also caused a landslide in the Tywyn and Bryncrug area of South Meirionnydd , where there was damage to property and part of the track of the narrow gauge Tal y Llyn Railway . |
| 29 | Town won a corner on the left , there was cross to Campbell , who hit a superb volley against the far upright , and Steve Aries took the rebound well to score . |
| 30 | Within North Yemen there was opposition to unification among some militant Moslem Brotherhood groups , on the grounds that the Islamic basis of legislation in the Moslem north could be undermined by the " pagan-dominated " Marxist southern Yemen Socialist Party ( YSP ) . |