Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] to they [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr and Mrs Crump , who until that moment had reigned serene in their social supremacy at the Swan , moved swiftly from slight disgruntlement to genuine delight as details of the new arrival 's pedigree , accoutrements , speech and manner were relayed to them by one or other of the scampering servants . |
| 2 | Along the colonnade under Upper School were recorded 1157 names of Old Etonians killed in the First World War ( 748 others , including my brother Dermot 's , were added to them after the Second World War ) . |
| 3 | Their 19th-century kings , with accompanying royal courts , were sent to them from north-west Europe . |
| 4 | Throughout the 1980s the expanding prison population caused Home Office administrators to question how long it would be possible to go on supplying an unlimited number of places , at enormous cost , for however many convicted or remand prisoners were sent to them by the courts . |
| 5 | The two judgment tasks were described to them before the drive as follows . |
| 6 | Although Francis Berry 's involvement with the cellar came purely from his friendship with Lutyens , this must not be taken as favouritism Berry 's was one of the oldest wine merchants in the business ( the company started trading in 1699 ) , and their first royal warrant was given to them by Edward VII , an honour the firm holds to this day . |
| 7 | The Jews ' special characteristics derive from the religion which was given to them by Moses , which stressed one God who was invisible and would not allow images of Himself to be made for worship . |
| 8 | But if they died , there was a very young family , a young wife , needing financial independence that was given to them by you , with a life insurance policy . |
| 9 | erm A lot of people gave as a reason for getting a particular piece of furniture the fact that it was given to them by their parents when they got married , or that a neighbour was trying to get rid of it , or that somebody from work had passed it on and they needed one . |
| 10 | The expedition was not to start until the beginning of May , five days away , and she knew with absolute certainty that the word of it was to come to them from her . |
| 11 | Although the survey vessel was now travelling at a speed faster than light , its occupants experienced no sense of progress other than that which was fed to them through the navigational telemetry . |
| 12 | The crest was granted to them by King Robert I of Scotland , when one of the family turned away a charging bull , threatening the King 's life . |
| 13 | The ownership which the sellers were thus given in the handbags was not , however , reserved to the sellers but was granted to them by those who would otherwise have been the owners , namely the buyers of the leather . |
| 14 | The appeal was made to them in the early 1970s to offer their home to ‘ special needs ’ children and they responded well , Now they are being asked to accept both the challenge of ‘ special needs ’ children and the possibility of continuing contact with members of the original family . |
| 15 | It was presented to them as a detective game in which they were encouraged to help the Pink Panther to solve some mysteries . |
| 16 | Then the opportunity of having an unexpected extra curate was presented to them by George Carey , then Bishop of Bath and Wells , in late July and a new leader moved with his family into the Carters ' house at the end of September . |
| 17 | Probably few people would adhere strictly to Comte 's scheme nowadays if it was presented to them in its original form , but nevertheless it does still seem to underpin the structure of first degree courses in the main natural sciences ( physics , chemistry , biochemistry , biology ) and the typical faculty demarcation between the natural and the social sciences . |
| 18 | At one stage the station , not far from the foreign legations , was connected to them by a tram line . |
| 19 | Affidavits from the defendants ' solicitors established that the photocopy affidavit was supplied to them by the second defendant for the purposes of seeking legal advice in circumstances where litigation was contemplated , but did not indicate whether the photocopy sent was a photocopy which the second defendant made for the purpose of instructing his solicitors or a photocopy which had been sent to the second defendant by the employee himself , prepared for the employee 's own purposes which had nothing whatever to do with the defendants obtaining legal advice from their soliticors . |
| 20 | In the following year they staged a number of occupations of churches , but even that avenue of protest was closed to them in the end , because it became too dangerous . |
| 21 | A son , aptly named Arthur , was born to them in 1262 , described in a familiar and affectionate letter from Blanche , duchess of Brittany to Henry III as ‘ mout bon enffant et mout beil , la Dieu merci ’ . |
| 22 | Jesus was speaking to them in a , in a concealed language , it was only for his disciples , and whilst all the people heard it , they did n't understand it , the disciples did n't understand it , and Jesus afterwards explained to his followers what he was saying . |
| 23 | ‘ Vive l'Empereur ! ’ was borne to them from the enemy lines , time and again — into the land between the opposing armies , through their own lines , and away into the darkness . |
| 24 | Hamish Kidd — previously with Heidrick and Struggles — was introduced to them in 1978 , and it was agreed that he would work with them for a year with the aim of establishing that a sale could be arranged . |
| 25 | The Bernard brothers were so struck by this that for some weeks afterwards Henrietta was known to them as ‘ Piss-off darling ’ . |
| 26 | Legality was restored to them in 1935 . ) |
| 27 | But even in the nineteenth century , the drawing-room ballads and theatre tunes ‘ of the bourgeoisie ’ were heard and reproduced by many workers , just as ‘ art ’ music was regaled to them by brass bands and in promenade concerts ; while ownership of ‘ folk ’ songs would be a matter of dispute between ‘ peasants ’ , industrial workers , petty bourgeois writers and artisans , and patrician collectors . |
| 28 | Wycliffe was talking to them in his little office , where the Salvation Army band had once stored their instruments . |
| 29 | The office of Earl Marshal was to all intents and purposes the heritable property of the Howard family , although it was lost to them for several decades after the attainder of the fourth Duke of Norfolk in 1572 . |
| 30 | The result , in the aftermath of the Japanese coup , was that immediate help to the French , who were now fighting the Japanese in Vietnam , was denied to them at a time when the US 14th Airforce in southern China could be seen by the French in Laos and Vietnam as they flew on their predetermined attacks on the Japanese elsewhere in Southeast Asia . |