Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this campaign too — the battle of the River Ebro — the government forces had the initial advantage of surprise , but their much depleted physical and military strength made them unable to turn it to their permanent advantage and they were eventually pushed back to their original positions . |
| 2 | The miners were eventually forced back to work — some might claim they were virtually ‘ starved back ’ by the operation of the social security benefit rules — because there was no apparent chance of success . |
| 3 | Raiders like the Savannah , most feared of the Southern privateers , were secretly handed over to the Confederates in the Azores , by a merchant class who had helped finance and develop the southern plantations and economy . |
| 4 | The full-time farms surveyed were mostly given over to grass and were on the higher ground . |
| 5 | Lucie 's thoughts were entirely given over to the pain in his chest ; he was overrun with pain . |
| 6 | We always had to be properly dressed even in the wee small hours when we were only looking forward to being relieved so we could fall into bed . |
| 7 | ‘ We were so looking forward to this trip and it 's been awful , ’ Rose whispered , sadly shaking her head . |
| 8 | Despite the happy applause of Speech Day on 20th June , the Governors were perhaps thinking ahead to their next meeting , a fortnight away , " respecting the financial position of the School " . |
| 9 | My colleagues and I in Wales Link were greatly looking forward to her visit , planned over a period of 18 months . |
| 10 | In the late 1960s and early 1970s the activities of the CNAA were obviously related closely to the complex developments of the polytechnics . |
| 11 | THESE four happy boys were eagerly looking forward to a fun-filled family Christmas . |
| 12 | Before Edward 's reforms of 1289–91 , offices were normally farmed out to the highest bidder . |
| 13 | They were soon summoned back to London . |
| 14 | Two of our number , feeling no pain from imbibed refreshment , climbed into the engine tender by mistake , but they were soon herded back to the warmth and light of the Superintendent 's coach , which was the ultimate in railway luxury . |
| 15 | So Western experts were soon jetting off to poor countries to run surveys and design massive family planning programmes . |
| 16 | On 4 April 1991 , the very day the children were finally flown home to Orkney , the government announced it had commissioned an Inquiry to establish the extent — if any — of ritual sexual abuse of children . |
| 17 | The argument comes just months after the ancient writings were finally opened up to scholars around the world , and it centres on a single phrase . |
| 18 | These losses were largely put down to aggressive lending to domestic property and corporate sectors , both of which were now in recession . |
| 19 | If the urban élites were largely won over to Christianity by about 430 , the masses had drifted into it even sooner . |
| 20 | He was only gone a minute , and when he returned , it was with a couple in their fifties who were holding hands as if they were desperately hanging on to reality . |
| 21 | I made my way through all the guard checkpoints and got to the Hotel Intourist in the middle of town at about 11 o'clock when David and Geoffrey were just siting down to lunch . |
| 22 | ‘ But we were just working up to the knees and you 've still got $ 85,750 left on the meter . ’ |
| 23 | We were just sitting down to our dinner when the chief Druid came in sight with his begging bowl and Tony got under the bed . |
| 24 | Most of the store windows were already given over to Christmas displays in silver and white , whilst around behind his hotel , down-and-outs were sleeping over hot air vents in the pavement . |
| 25 | They were already coming here to Mazraa . ’ |
| 26 | A game of football had started below and the familiar quarrels of sportsmen were already floating up to me . |
| 27 | London , as it watched the decline of New York and Paris as theatrical capitals , maintained over fifty theatres , subsidised and commercial — of which most , on any week-day evening , were usually given over to legitimate theatre . |
| 28 | Those animals not ransomed were usually sold cheaply to cultivators or butchers who knew full well the origins of the animal . |
| 29 | The dismissals were announced the day after Girija Prasad Koirala , the general secretary of the Nepali Congress Party , had delivered a message to the King warning him that unless substantial powers were quickly turned over to the new government , crowds would be called back on to the streets of Kathmandu . |
| 30 | They were quickly sent on to reception camps . |