Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [vb pp] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the five-shot lead he created was trimmed to a manageable three shots for today 's third round which the English Ryder Cup man starts on a 13-under-par total of 131 . |
| 2 | Strange , she thought crossly , that the Copenhageners were n't all wearing ankle bandages , but then they 'd been born to the decorative but tricky pavements and attuned their footwear accordingly . |
| 3 | ‘ He 'd been sent to a friend of mine to be sold , but he was a little bit difficult to place . |
| 4 | She 'd been elected to the National Executive Committee and she stood up , said how pleased she was , and then said , ‘ But now I have to take the bucket round for a collection because that 's what I always do … ’ and I just thought , ‘ How wonderful ’ . |
| 5 | Their veteran spokesman thundered occasionally from the back benches , but he 'd been banished to the backwoods by popular opinion . |
| 6 | He 'd been posted to the Far East in the 1930 's and as a police office , he was captured at the fall of Singapore and imprisoned in the Japanese death camps . |
| 7 | ‘ Father wanted someone to inherit who knew Venice and had been taught the business , someone who 'd been trained to the position . ’ |
| 8 | I phoned and the man that I needed to speak to was not there , he 'd been seconded to the Himalayas or something , he was only coming back erm , in the middle of January , I was in , erm , November or whatever it was , I was giving a few days ' grace , and then I was going to call . |
| 9 | Whereupon the partying Ninevites , just like Jonah inside the whale , repented ; whereupon God decided after all to spare the city ; whereupon Jonah became incredibly irritated , which was only normal in one who 'd been put to a lot of trouble to bring the message of destruction , only for the Lord , despite a well-known , indeed historic taste for wrecking cities , to turn round and change his mind . |
| 10 | Because , in the summer of 1969 , people who 'd been consigned to the medical scrap heap , victims of the 1920s sleeping sickness or encephalitic epidemic , really did take up their beds and walk . |
| 11 | ‘ I had a feeling he 'd been committed to an asylum . |
| 12 | She 'd been introduced to the others initially as a friend . |
| 13 | A farmer facing thirty four charges of animal cruelty could n't appear in court today because he 'd been admitted to a psychiatric hospital . |
| 14 | What happened what happened really in , in Russia and China is er that they had a sort of captive lower class who 'd been used to a very authoritarian kind of rule so they were able to impose communism from above . |
| 15 | He 'd been shown to the interview room where Scott sat with a uniformed officer close by the door . |
| 16 | Alexandra had n't heard the Colonel sound this cheerful since he 'd been confined to the wheelchair . |
| 17 | And was it any wonder she 'd fled , if she 'd been subjected to the same bullying and threats by an earlier generation of de Rocheforts ? |
| 18 | It is , indeed , doubtful how much help Gloucester could have commanded explicitly in order to take the throne : some , almost certainly , but much ( if not most ) of the backing he enjoyed was given to the protector for the maintenance of stability — a distinction of which Gloucester himself seems not to have been fully conscious . |
| 19 | It is , indeed , doubtful how much help Gloucester could have commanded explicitly in order to take the throne : some , almost certainly , but much ( if not most ) of the backing he enjoyed was given to the protector for the maintenance of stability — a distinction of which Gloucester himself seems not to have been fully conscious . |
| 20 | The money raised was given to the Holy Childhood and the scheme was adopted by Australia and Scotland . |
| 21 | The £798 raised was donated to the hospital 's radio station Crystal Radio . |
| 22 | Rollo loved being taken to the gilt and plush ambience of Rules in Covent Garden , to which his riposte was Lock-Obers in Boston , which he protested was not so good . |
| 23 | One of the three supermarkets looted was razed to the ground . |
| 24 | In addition , each cost area examined was subjected to a causal analysis . |
| 25 | You know sure there were committees to manage either financial affairs , or various other bits and pieces that went on , but even then decisions they took were taken to the lodge to be voted on . |
| 26 | The first questions Wien asked were related to the resolving power of optical instruments . |
| 27 | Children had the unfortunate habit of growing too tall , whereupon they would be sacked so the few shillings earned were lost to a family that might well depend on them . |
| 28 | What small political influence it possessed was confined to the immediate post-war years of social tension , inflation and unemployment . |
| 29 | Any surplus votes they had are re-allocated to the candidate who gets the second preference . |
| 30 | He was at Pickering castle from 8 to 22 August 1323 : an inquiry was held regarding venison trespasses in Pickering Forest since that forest had been forfeited to the Crown by the treason of the Earl of Lancaster' . |