Example sentences of "[pron] was [prep] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I thought I was under contract to Paul Lexington Productions . ’ |
| 2 | I told you all I was at liberty to and thought you had accepted it . ’ |
| 3 | But perhaps I was as oblivious at school as I was at home to the sneers or the impatience of others . |
| 4 | I had with the permission of the deputy general secretary leave of conference yesterday I was in London to be told of a further nine hundred redundancies from a company that a short time ago was telling us , and if you look at my report you 'll have to delete the first paragraph where they had secured orders and the security of our members ' employment only to be told yesterday , nine hundred will go . |
| 5 | Perhaps I was in thrall to an illusion , but to me Pottz looked natural , free , and potent . |
| 6 | But he was able to anticipate that objection by suggesting that the prohibition applied only to knowledge sought in self-aggrandizement , not to that which was of service to humanity . |
| 7 | Only refugees with firm arrangements for travel into another country were admitted during the border closure , which was in response to the alleged failure of the UN to disburse some US$40,000,000 promised for help with the first major influx of refugees after the August 1990 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait . |
| 8 | Irwin and Paul Ince were booked for ungentlemanly conduct as the referee added nine minutes of injury time to a tepid second-half which was in contrast to the excitement of the first . |
| 9 | Many broadcasters felt that they were expected not to say anything on the air which was in contradiction to Government policy . |
| 10 | On Wednesdays , as a tribute to Aunt Emily , she was at home to callers , and faithfully , once a week , she went to the Rectory and was a tiger for an hour in the jungle under the nursery table . |
| 11 | Yet when it came to a hulloa and a gallop and a death , she was on terms to the end . |
| 12 | She was in town to film Modesty Blaise for Joseph Losey . |
| 13 | The soldiers charged by the police were Captain James A. McGregor , who was on secondment to the MRF from the Parachute Regiment , and Sergeant Clive G. Williams , who was on secondment from the Royal Military Police . |
| 14 | Players released by Jimmy Nicholl 's Raith Rovers include centre half Mark Cowan who was on loan to Linfield earlier in the season and midfielder Sean Strang who had a spell with Cliftonville . |
| 15 | Carl Shutt who was on loan to Birmingham City has now transferred= for 50,000 . |
| 16 | As it was Chaplin threw him a challenge to a round of fisticuffs , accusing Mayer of encouraging Mildred , who was under contract to Mayer , to press for a higher divorce settlement . |
| 17 | It was also difficult for a man who was in debt to be truthful ; hence it was said that lying rode on debt 's back . |
| 18 | One was from erm from Baghdad to Barqu and the other one was from Barqu to Basrah because he was in the First World War , I think he was serving with the Middlesex Regiment and erm , I do n't know how he managed this , I never did understand . |
| 19 | For those in the middle of these events , there was in addition to the tension and the menace , a certain air of unreality ; this raises the part played by drugs , not merely in the emergence of a forceful counter-culture , but in the attitudes of plain straightforward young people to whom any kind of illicit substance a couple of years earlier would have been a complete mystery . |
| 20 | I know it 's , I knew it was Needham Station and it was between station to station , you see , not er anything to do with the public but that 's where I learnt so we used to er take er messages from station to station and I used to speak to the girl at Merrith down the line . |
| 21 | By a notice of appeal dated 20 July 1992 the Official Solicitor appealed on the grounds , inter alia , that since the judge had found as facts that ( a ) T. had been able properly and fully to form a balanced judgment and had not been acting under undue influence but had been acting voluntarily , and ( b ) her several expressions withholding consent were valid refusals which bound the hospital , ( 1 ) he had erred in finding himself entitled to make the declaration ; ( 2 ) it had been wrong for him to assess T. 's subsequent intentions and to make assumptions as to whether she would have qualified or changed her refusal in the later circumstances ; and ( 3 ) he had erred in finding that ( a ) there was no evidence that T. had wished to refuse a blood transfusion even though it was at risk to her life , ( b ) lack of understanding of the risks involved justified acting against her expressed refusal , ( c ) her withholding of consent did not embrace the emergency which had arisen and took no account of changed circumstances , ( d ) her expressed refusals did not evince a settled intention to persist in her refusal even if injurious to her health when her best interests required a transfusion ; and ( e ) he was not satisfied that her refusal was continuing . |
| 22 | ( e ) There is , to put it negatively , no evidence that she did wish to persist in a refusal of a blood transfusion even if it was at risk to her life . |
| 23 | The group , who have an active Saturday club and a Monday Club for the blind and partly-sighted , has their mini-coach stolen when it was on loan to another charitable organisation , and they were left with a deficit of £5,500 when the insurance was settled . |
| 24 | the other point was obviously people that you may know which may be able to help me in my business , people you feel this information obviously it was of interest to you |
| 25 | I thought it was from generator to a pipe , couple of hand brakes in there . |
| 26 | Perhaps it was in deference to her sensibilities that he had slipped on a robe , but it did less to conceal the perfection of his body than to hint tantalisingly at it . |
| 27 | It was in attitudes to sex — and specifically male attitudes to women — that It began to argue with the outside world , and itself , almost from the beginning . |
| 28 | It was in response to that application that the committee yesterday published its findings , which must now be digested by the Law Society before it formally applies to the Lord Chancellor for extended rights of audience . |
| 29 | It was in response to the concern of NATO 's European members ( including Britain 's then Labour government ) over the declining capability of NATO 's existing intermediate-range forces . |
| 30 | Partly it was in response to the Black Workers ' Group and because Ahmed and I were both Black and lesbian/gay . |