Example sentences of "[pron] was [verb] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In the end I was acting mum to six orphaned baby hedgehogs — getting up to feed them every three hours , which is n't much fun . |
| 2 | Because I was born twin to Grainne … because the Royal Line must never divide … |
| 3 | When I was laying siege to the south wet pillar of the Dru our accommodation was a leaky tent on the campsite behind Biollay , our recreation table football in the Bar National . ’ |
| 4 | I just wish I did n't feel I was playing albatross to your Ancient Mariner . ’ |
| 5 | Sometime during 1950 , I think before the summer , before the dresses were made , I was taken north to Burnley and into the sheds . |
| 6 | A melon I was giving birth to it . |
| 7 | I was giving tea to my opponent who , though the same weight , was probably two years older , when I was sent for by Julian Hall , my fag master . |
| 8 | I was paying money to the paramilitaries . ’ |
| 9 | I was paying attention to everything in the airplane . |
| 10 | I was to run second to a young newcomer on the team , David Kirton . |
| 11 | ‘ I was driving Kelly to Great Ormond Street Hospital in London , ’ Sandra says , ‘ and out of the blue she said to me : ‘ Mum , what happens when you die ? |
| 12 | And er you know he was I mean for instance at Salisbury Park he probably did n't mean anything but on Saturday when I was saying goodbye to him he said now I hope there 'll be somebody here at ten past ten to open this church tomorrow . |
| 13 | In order to keep an erection long enough to fake orgasm , I had to imagine that I was making love to Karen . |
| 14 | Second point : although you obviously have such a low opinion of me that it does n't strain your credulity to believe that I was making love to two women at once , one of them married , I ca n't believe that even you could see me in the role of toy-boy . |
| 15 | We were now at a point of safety , half a mile from the village of El Ouata , so I was allowed access to supplies in the Land Rover . |
| 16 | However , a study commissioned by FRES , the primary objective of which was to give support to these claims , made very clear that for certain categories of worker , particularly secretarial/keyboard staff in central London and computer staff , agency supplied labour was more expensive ( Rothwell/Mingard , 1985 ) . |
| 17 | He had no interest in the architecture of what was then merely a rather dull manor house , but kept on improving the estate , which was to give pleasure to the Welch family until the Second World War . |
| 18 | A by-product of cheesemaking on farms led to another product which was to bring fame to the name of Ayrshire . |
| 19 | In the former exhibition , George Mackie , DFC , RDI , RSW , one of this century 's leading graphic artists , confronts the challenge of explaining to layman and bibliophile alike the nature of his ‘ invisible ’ craft and the intellectual and emotional considerations which underline it , and this theme is further elaborated in the accompanying catalogue , Books , mostly scholarly and some Ephemera , designed by George Mackie , which was produced thanks to the generosity of The Stinehour Press , who printed it . |
| 20 | Lord Donaldson 's report would be considered carefully by the Government , which was planning submissions to the International Maritime Organisation . |
| 21 | The disappearance of the rhynchosaurs , like the decline of the synapsid dicynodonts before them , seems to be associated with a decline of their food-plant ; this time , of the seed fern Dicroidium , which was giving way to the worldwide spread of the conifers . |
| 22 | Devon Malcolm was not sparing himself on a pitch which was offering help to all the bowlers but Waugh seemed to have a ridiculous amount of time to ease him through the leg field twice in an over for two of his 10 boundaries . |
| 23 | She was wearing trousers to church ! |
| 24 | Zeinab announced that she was taking Owen to the theatre . |
| 25 | We knew her and we also knew that she was taking food to a different set of prisoners ; they were beginning to scatter over an increasingly wide area as there was now no hope of an immediate Allied invasion of northern Italy , which was what everyone had hoped for . |
| 26 | Then he remembered a woman he 'd met once on a train , she was singing hymns to the window , he 'd been embarrassed at first , half her fringe was missing as if someone had taken a bite out of it , only he knew she 'd done it because she caught him staring and laughed and said , ‘ I always cut it when I 'm loaded , ’ and he remembered something about a house , and because there was nothing left to cling to , because it was the only piece of wreckage left afloat , he remembered how to get there too , it was either remember or die . |
| 27 | In 1952 she was appointed secretary to the general manager working first for Trevor Haynes then Bill Proudfoot . |
| 28 | She was standing face to face with a boy in the public park at the end of Decimus Street . |
| 29 | She was paying attention to the men 's talk , to the discussion of money , the fall in the price of wool , and the cunning of a certain local landowner 's brutal conditions . |
| 30 | Mrs. X mentioned in her letter that she was giving thought to taking civil legal action , so I sought advice on private prosecutions from both the Attorney-General , for such actions in England , and the Lord Advocate , for similar cases in Scotland . |