Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shaking was felt from Ayrshire to Cornwall and Kent to Dublin , but damage was limited mainly to roof slates and chimney stacks . |
| 2 | Some space was given over to discussion of these questions in chapters 2 and 3 . |
| 3 | One of its rooms was given over to chess-playing , a pastime enjoyed by Rosengarten and Leonard . |
| 4 | The morning of the celebrations dawned and the whole day was given over to ironing best robes , practising on broomsticks and chanting . |
| 5 | So William erm on Thursday night erm he said on B B C's Question Time erm which was given over to crime and punishment issues which had not been debated and erm William said he 'd a come to the conclusion now that he believed drug taking should be made legal . |
| 6 | In a remarkable record , he was to go on to win two further bars , in France that year and in Germany in 1945 . |
| 7 | She had said , peremptory as always , that he was to go straight to Room III , where " the miraculous stuff " was to be found . |
| 8 | The only thing he wanted right now was to go back to Jubilee Wood . |
| 9 | I was up there for six weeks , I passed the course and was posted back to Brigade H Q to a wider posting to a regiment . |
| 10 | They had to use the guards " radio , which was patched through to army headquarters and thence to the Majles . |
| 11 | The flight lasted over an hour as the plane was flown out to sea , returning over Fleetwood , then back to Blackpool . |
| 12 | The manager 's task was to remain up to date with the changes , to encourage a confident understanding of the purpose and methods of assessment and to make sense of the ambiguity which surrounded questions of parental and governors ' access to the assessments . |
| 13 | In these small manufactories adult labour was confined mainly to supervision and it was nimble-fingered children who , for wages of between 1 and 2s ( 5-10p ) a week , produced the pins . |
| 14 | A third child , aged only seven months , was lifted out to safety in a carry-cot . |
| 15 | A third child , aged only seven months , was lifted out to safety in a carry-cot . |
| 16 | No reasonable person could have objected — nor did they — when , shortly after the death of the Hizbollah bomber , an impressive steel anti-terrorist shield was installed close to No. 10 . |
| 17 | Old Jimbo can still roll back the years and reach into his glorious past , and how he loved it as the crowd roared at every winning shot and then sang Happy Birthday as a giant cake was rolled on to court for him afterwards . |
| 18 | Leanne , screaming hysterically , was carried outside to safety . |
| 19 | A widespread training programme was carried out to help governors and schools staff to meet their new tasks and obligations . |
| 20 | In August 1952 the innocent-looking East and West Lyn rivers swept down into the Devon resort of Lynmouth , obliterating houses and removing all trace of the Beach Hotel , which was carried out to sea . |
| 21 | One house , inhabited by a British family called Tatlock , was carried out to sea whole . |
| 22 | In four ( 10% ) patients a precut papillotomy using a needle knife was carried out to gain access to the common bile duct . |
| 23 | He lived in a good loose-box , and was let out to water twice a day . |
| 24 | On my first Sunday , two days before the operation I was let out to family lunch . |
| 25 | There he remained until 18 March 1986 when , no doubt because his condition had deteriorated , he was transferred back to hospital . |
| 26 | The Church denounced nonprofessional healing as heresy ( hence condemning many female midwives to the stake as witches in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries ) and the state was prevailed on to grant a final legal monopoly of practice to the medically qualified by the establishment of the Medical Register in 1858 . |
| 27 | Then she was whisked off to lunch at the clubhouse . |
| 28 | Soon afterwards , the letter S was applied similarly to ex-South Metropolitan cars . |
| 29 | In some case ( slot-blot ) , DNA was applied directly to nylon membrane ( Gene-screen DUPONT ) with a slot apparatus and then hybridised as described for Southern blot . |
| 30 | Shaken to have found herself so suddenly envious of Liz 's happy home life , and startled to realise that no amount of money could create these comfortable surroundings , Laura was jerked back to reality by the sound of Ross 's voice . |