Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [vb pp] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found being introduced to people individually , as they arrived , much easier than going into a room full of new babies and it was good to share experiences . |
| 2 | The data from the other three course involved was restricted to progression beyond first year . |
| 3 | She 'd been so sure he 'd been born to money . |
| 4 | Luckily the others still were n't back so he made me write a note saying we 'd been called to London on some family matter and we took the next train from Cheltenham station . ’ |
| 5 | Shit all over the floor and the walls , " said a twenty-one-year-old machinist who 'd been banished to Coventry 's notorious Woodend estate . |
| 6 | She was n't to know that he 'd been posted to Berlin . |
| 7 | I 'd been invited to dinner too , but declined . |
| 8 | He 'd been stabbed to death . |
| 9 | He 'd been battered to death . |
| 10 | He 'd been put to bed early , exhausted after a visit from Konstantin and his girlfriend . |
| 11 | Sam was n't privileged to meet them either as he 'd been set to work whitewashing the Barracks , which they never got around to inspecting . |
| 12 | ‘ At this moment , yes , but he 'd been promoted to registrar and would have assumed that title in a fortnight 's time . ’ |
| 13 | I often thought if I 'd been married to Finn and I 'd had a gun handy , I 'd 've widowed myself more than once . ’ |
| 14 | Money budgeted was related to extent of training indicated , though there were exceptions to prove the rule at every level of spending , ( except the highest and the lowest ) . |
| 15 | A mahogany bookcase and the books it contained was left to Anne ‘ with gratitude for our long friendship ’ and a Sheraton occasional table to ‘ our good neighbour Mrs Fitzgerald ’ . |
| 16 | It seemed to Preston that if you avoided being stabbed to death by terror gangs , you stood an even chance of being burned to death by sudden conflagration , or pushed on to the live line by a psychopath lurking among the rush-hour crowds , or struck down by a heart attack brought on by the extreme rage and frustration of trying to understand a platform announcement . |
| 17 | Vladimir Ulyanov — who chose to use the name of ‘ Lenin'-had been exiled to Siberia in 1895 after he had founded a Union for the liberation of the working classes . |
| 18 | For some years attempts had been made to prohibit the sale of firearms and a Pistols Bill had been presented to Parliament in 1893 . |
| 19 | It had been taken when she had been presented to King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra earlier in the year . |
| 20 | By July an outline agreement had been presented to Law and Lloyd George , by which 150 seats were allocated to Coalition Liberals , but no decision of principle was taken . |
| 21 | Then he grabbed a crystal glass eagle that had been presented to Mr Reagan , 81 , raised it above his head and smashed it on to the podium . |
| 22 | I had been ushered into the throne room ( the throne itself , 8 feet high and needing six men to move it , was carved from a solid slab of oak and had been presented to Queen Salote by the British Government in 1951 ) , and could hear from next door the awful warble of Mr Swaggart 's daily broadcast to which the King was apparently listening . |
| 23 | Progress was only about 30 ft. a month and the rate had been raised to £5 a fathom . |
| 24 | The company had agreed an overdraft facility with the bank that by December 1986 had been raised to £40,000 . |
| 25 | The limit in respect of advice in relation to undefended divorce proceedings had been raised to £45 in April 1977 when legal aid ceased to be available for such proceedings and that figure was subsequently raised to £55 in 1979 , £75 in 1981 and £90 in 1985 . |
| 26 | He explained that the Government 's original pledge last year of £55 million had been increased to £75 million , with a further £40 million funding to spearhead the regeneration of east Manchester . |
| 27 | As the M.D. indicates , he was a physician , and the committee specified that Griffith J. Griffiths , who had been appointed to Goldington district , and who later became the senior surgeon at Bedford General Hospital , should be co-opted in cases where major surgery was required . |
| 28 | A long-serving member of the Cabinet , he had been appointed to President Robert Mugabe 's first independence government as Minister of Transport and Power in March 1980 , and was also a member of the ruling party 's political bureau , where he was Secretary for Youth . |
| 29 | Elections were still scheduled to take place no later than May 1993 , and more than 115,000 refugees had been repatriated to Cambodia . |
| 30 | In repeated calls for a spiritual crusade by believers to reclaim for Christianity the states of Europe which had been lost to communism , the Pope attacked abortion , implicitly criticizing the Sejm |