Example sentences of "were [verb] [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The day before we arrived in Gibraltar we received a signal from Admiral Sir James Somerville of Force ‘ H ’ who was in command of the operation , saying that on arrival in harbour we were to berth stern to stern to ‘ Ark Royal ’ so that some of our Hurricanes could be transferred to her and rolled off ‘ Furious ’ direct onto ‘ Ark Royal ’ . |
| 2 | They were kneeling back to back , their buttocks touching , and each with one end of the double-headed dildo still embedded securely in her gaping twat . |
| 3 | Women were given rights to property , credit facilities and access to literacy programmes . |
| 4 | The Britons were given mouth to mouth and heart massage but it was too late . |
| 5 | Sheets were turned sides to middle and worn blankets cut up to make sleeping bags for children . |
| 6 | Birmingham specialised in close , dark and filthy courtyards : there were over two thousand of these in the town in the 1830s , and many of their houses were built back to back in order to get the maximum number on to each expensive acre . |
| 7 | On one such occasion , when the head keeper and a young man were leading Joicey to safety , Joicey turned to the youngster and inquired : ‘ Have you the Gaelic , lad , have you the Gaelic ? ’ |
| 8 | A bear had broken loose amongst the stews ; a whore was being whipped outside the gates of St Thomas 's Hospital ; two butchers who had sold putrid meat were riding back to back on some old nag , their hands tied behind them , the rotten offal they had sold fastened tightly under their noses . |
| 9 | I could see that if I were to give way to retroscendence the average supermarket gondola , stuck with myriad products like a hedgehog with spines , would become a mystic test-bed able through its thousand portals to suck me into individual sagas so complex , so durable , that I would perhaps never reemerge . |
| 10 | SUMMERCHILD : Actually , I do feel a little as if I were coming face to face with my past in some kind of way . |
| 11 | In this context the first reactions of Europeans to the reality of the native inhabitants of the Americas is of particular interest , for here , in a very explicit sense , experience and fantasy were brought face to face . |
| 12 | If the group 's total annual output in biscuits were laid edge to edge , they would stretch twice to the moon and back , or forty-eight times around the equator . |
| 13 | Six people were found shot to death in an apartment in the crime-ridden South Bronx district of New York yesterday in a modern St Valentine 's Day massacre , police said . |
| 14 | Barbara wished they were talking face to face . |
| 15 | Before I could deliver another , he had grasped my wrist and we were fighting face to face , nearly falling into the fire as we did so . |
| 16 | A smart mobile caravan began to tour the area with a reassuring message of safety and reliability , an information shop opened in Bridgwater , and 35,000 full colour newspapers were delivered door to door . |
| 17 | Interviews were conducted face to face . |
| 18 | The attack took place about two miles beyond Johannesburg 's southern suburbs at 7.30am as commuters were streaming to work and mothers were delivering children to school . |
| 19 | One result of this moral panic was that , even as the anxiety mentioned by Furlong ( ibid. ) forced us to react to these public demands with some arrests , we insiders with ‘ special knowledge ’ , who were working face to face with the counter-culture , knew there was a different social reality abroad which we could never adequately explain to the entrepreneur or encapsulate for the media headline . |
| 20 | Of the 25 college and 20 special libraries that replied , the majority were already automated , and many others were planning conversion to automation in the near future . |