Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] to [pron] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Old and young were attended to their last resting place by those who had loved them , and slept in churchyards adjoining the fields where in life they had played or ploughed . |
| 2 | Yo you know the numbers that were allocated to you last time . |
| 3 | Shaun Taylor lifted the tedium by putting Swindon ahead after 75 minutes , but they were restricted to their 10th away draw of the season four minutes later when Billy Clark headed an unexpected equaliser from Ian Alexander 's free-kick . |
| 4 | They could be seen in constant arguments in every European court , as in the past , about the relative positions of diplomats on formal and even informal occasions , their placing at table at meals where more than one was present , the precise way in which they were conducted to their first audience with the ruler to whom they were accredited , when and whether they stood or sat at such audiences , the precise moment when they or the ruler removed their hats , and a variety of such tremendous niceties . |
| 5 | I got quite , I was given to it last year , I reckon |
| 6 | At one point Marjory had persuaded herself she would not get into Oxford and was resigned to her second choice , Royal Holloway and Bedford , which has a big history department . |
| 7 | Roy , 56 , who has played Alec in over 500 episodes , said earlier this year he was returning to his first love , the theatre . |
| 8 | I think for example of the sensitivity of some of the small market towns , the point for example that was made to us last week about the sensitivity one settlement with which I 've come increasingly familiar over the last fortnight and that is town centre . |
| 9 | But , of course , it does n't always work ; I was listening to my second recording of the Liszt Sonata about a year ago , and found things there that did not satisfy me . |
| 10 | He said I was to talk to you first . |
| 11 | His heir , Muhammad Reza , was born to his second wife , queen Taj ol Molok , on 20 October 1919 . |
| 12 | The whole sorry enterprise generated a cynicism that was to be heightened by the Watergate scandal , which emerged as the tragedy of Vietnam was moving to its last stages ( p. 104 ) . |
| 13 | Is that what she was saying to you last night ? |
| 14 | He paused in his work to stare at what Dolly was doing to her first potato . |
| 15 | The administration of President George Bush was subjected to its first serious alarm concerning the 66-year-old President 's health when , on May 4 , Bush was hospitalized after developing a rapid and irregular heartbeat . |
| 16 | From about 3900 Ma ago to about 3300 Ma ago it is clear from Figure 6.9 that the Moon was subjected to its last heavy bombardment . |
| 17 | Still suffering occasional wooziness from the altitude , I sat on the steps , turned my face to the warm sun and was subjected to my first unsuccessful robbery : two little nicks in the zip pocket of my top . |
| 18 | A much more serious crisis of a similar nature arose immediately after the Iraqi coup of July 1957 when the Hashemite dynasty was overthrown , and the Eisenhower Doctrine for the Middle East was put to its first test . |
| 19 | So he , he , as I was talking to her last night on the phone the front door bell 's going and it 's our Fred from next door right looking after her and bringing forms for her to fill in to get dial-a-ride . |
| 20 | She knew he was referring to her last meeting with Jake and that explosive love scene in the drawing-room , only the sketchiest version of which he 'd been privy to . |
| 21 | He was sent to his first school there . |
| 22 | Docherty was betrothed to his first wife Agnes , an unpretentious Glaswegian who he had met in the late '40s at a social club dance when The Doc was an aspiring player with Celtic . |