Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] [noun prp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1798 Murdock was recalled from Cornwall to the Soho Works . |
| 2 | Government approval was given in September to a development scheme to transform Leith into a deep water Port with impounded water . |
| 3 | This gold-covered oak cask was given by Charles to the Saxon chieftain Wittikind as a gift when he finally surrendered and accepted baptism in the year 785 . |
| 4 | He added : ‘ I was staggered to learn that limestone was to go from Redmire to Redcar by road when we were told in 1988 that British Steel could n't get enough of it and had put on an additional train . |
| 5 | The first questionnaire was completed in February to March 1988 before the smoking education projects were started . |
| 6 | Thus jade , the material held most precious of all by the Chinese , was assigned by Kluge to his fifth and lowermost grade on account of its dull colour and lack of transparency . |
| 7 | At the same time his status seems to have caused him to be associated with campaigns which took place after his death : the invasion of Italy by Buccelin , which rightly belongs in the reign of Theudebald , was assigned by Gregory to that of his father . |
| 8 | Travelling on a false passport made out in the name of James Richardson , Bourke travelled by train from London to Paris ( apparently without encountering any problems with the police who were searching for him ) , and thence by air to Berlin where he crossed into the eastern sector and shortly afterwards was flown to Moscow to be reunited with Blake . |
| 9 | It was flown by Wade to fourth place in the 1938 Thompson Trophy race . |
| 10 | A wealthy man , without flying experience , was flown from London to Paris by his pilot . |
| 11 | He was flown from Edinburgh to Manchester airport before being taken for a tearful re-union with his mother 's parents . |
| 12 | Valerio Viccei , 37 , who is thought to have got away with £26 million from the daring robbery , was flown from Heathrow to Rome where he faces questioning over 50 unsolved crimes . |
| 13 | On May 26 Zeyal Sarhadi was extradited from Switzerland to France , following a ruling by Switzerland 's Federal Tribunal . |
| 14 | The most recent launch , the first flight of the second orbiter , Challenger , was delayed from January to April because of persistent fuel and coolant leaks from the main engines . |
| 15 | When Ako Adjei , Adamafio and Crabbe were given a second trial they were condemned to death : but the sentence was commuted by Nkrumah to life imprisonment . |
| 16 | There would also be problems with the EC if more authority was devolved from Westminster to Brussels . |
| 17 | Alhred 's power-base may have been in the lower Tyne , for the body of his son , Osred , was carried to Tynemouth to be buried in the monastery there . |
| 18 | This work was subcontracted by EEG to John Whitney Jr and his Digital Productions — John Whitney Sr was a pioneer of computer animation whose abstract films inspired Con Pederson and Douglas Trumbull to try slit-scan . |
| 19 | After his arrival back from Siwa , Stirling was driving from Alexandria to Cairo when he was involved in a serious road accident . |
| 20 | What brought all this on was driving from Berlin to Leipzig and back . |
| 21 | The empty two-unit pacer passenger train was returning from Goole to its depot at Doncaster , with only the driver and guard on board . |
| 22 | One rainy afternoon in November 1982 , when 1 was returning from Basrah to Baghdad by car , we were overtaken and swept along by the motorized column of President Saddam himself . |
| 23 | This synod was transferred by Constantine to the lakeside town of Nicaea , not far from his own palace and more accessible for the two priests sent to represent bishop Silvester of Rome . |
| 24 | Hazard was transferred from Tottenham to Chelsea on September 19 , 1985 and from there to Portsmouth on January 11 , 1990 . |
| 25 | In March 1938 , the former L.C.C 's blue painted car No. 1 , was transferred from Holloway to Telford Avenue depôt and painted red . |
| 26 | He was not only a fine footballer , he was also a gentleman to the Nth degree , and he told the story , I remember , he started his erm , professional football career in this country , with Barnsley , and he was transferred from Barnsley to Aston Villa , and at the time there was some haggling over the fee , and er , he was taken by the chairman of Barnsley , to meet the chairman of Aston Villa in the chairman 's Rolls Royce . |
| 27 | The school health service was transferred from LEAs to area health authorities , but LEAs were required to provide facilities for dental and medical inspection of pupils . |
| 28 | Isaac avoided execution by promising the king a 10,000 mark fine , and in 1213 was transferred from Bristol to the Tower of London . |
| 29 | It was applied by Baulig to Brittany ( 1935 ) and seemed to work quite well as the basic map used was the old French 1:80 000 hachured map which had plenty of spot heights often on flattish summits or spurs . |
| 30 | Mr Devaty was sentenced in August to 20 months in jail on charges of incitement connected with the petition . |