Example sentences of "were [adv] [verb] to [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Are n't you and Charles due to go off on holiday soon ? ’ she queried , when tea and biscuits were duly dispensed to Lucy and she could sit down on a wicker-backed chair and sip her own . |
| 2 | Encouraged by Drew , Daisy applied for a Pony Club scholarship for Perdita , and they were duly summoned to Kirtlington to meet the Committee in early July . |
| 3 | At first Mwangaza was sold only in Dar es Salaam , but sales were eventually extended to Tanga , the country 's second town . |
| 4 | Our thanks were properly offered to Vince , Geoff , Carol and Sue for their expert demonstration and we shall never see either Kevin or Phil in the same light again . |
| 5 | The Labour Party environmental spokesperson argued ( Evening Standard 9.8.89 ) that 800,000 tons of industrial waste were annually brought to Britain to be disposed of . |
| 6 | They admit arranging for 5,000 dollars to be handed over in envelopes but say they were merely responding to UEFA instructions to cover the officials ' expenses . |
| 7 | By 1483 some at least of the royal servants were sufficiently committed to Gloucester to play an active role in his coup . |
| 8 | By 1483 some at least of the royal servants were sufficiently committed to Gloucester to play an active role in his coup . |
| 9 | Any number of concessions were apparently made to Intel 's sensibilities including Intel ownership through completely parallel structures , offering Intel ownership of the specification and completely equal access . |
| 10 | Shortly after the invasion US troops , backed up by forces from various European , Arab and Asian countries , were swiftly dispatched to Saudi Arabia . |
| 11 | On Wednesday 20 March , three weeks after the dawn raids , Mr and Mrs H , the fourth family whose children had been removed , were suddenly taken to Kirkwall Police Station for questioning . |
| 12 | After its opening Archbishop Melton of York demanded that the king should be brought before parliament ; Bishops Stratford and Orleton were thereupon sent to Kenilworth , where the king was imprisoned , to request his attendance but they came back to report with some zest his offensive words of refusal . |
| 13 | While the French police eventually traced the pieces to Osaka , lack of cooperation on the part of the Japanese authorities meant that they were not returned to France until June 1990 , and then only on the condition that they were returned to Japan by December of that year . |
| 14 | His family arranged his cremation , but his ashes were not taken to Paris until 30 November 1950 , the fiftieth anniversary of Wilde 's death . |
| 15 | Were not biking to Orpington were biking to Bromley . |
| 16 | He had , and was going to have , the worst hangover of his life , but even in the throes of it he was aware of a sense of relief that they were staying there , they were not going to Greece . |
| 17 | Pressures for some " democratisation " of foreign policy and for weakening the dangerous grip on international relations of allegedly cynical and reactionary foreign offices were not confined to Britain . |
| 18 | Such diversification activities were not confined to Harwell . |
| 19 | Such moments were not confined to Atlantic crossings . |
| 20 | Asked why the shows were not coming to Washington D.C. , New York , Chicago or Los Angeles , Mr Hoving said : ‘ Oh , they 'll grumble something about scheduling or funding . |
| 21 | Gaston VII of Béarn thus cast himself in the role of his daughter 's protector against the territorial ambitions of Edward 's seneschal , which were soon to lead to Grilly 's dismissal from his post . |
| 22 | The Lerskys were soon to return to Palestine . |
| 23 | Zahira and her baby were finally taken to Ashford hospital . |
| 24 | The pope , however , denied issuing some of the decretals attributed to him by Gilbert , and others in this collection , coming from Innocent 's two predecessors , were incorrectly attributed to Innocent . |
| 25 | The advantages compared with ordinary civil procedure were largely limited to Rome , since each province had only one jurisdictional magistrate . |
| 26 | They reached the surgery door at the same time as the strange little group and , as they ushered their client in , he said , ‘ We were just going to Sheldrake and Woodall when we saw your plate on Broom House gate . ’ |
| 27 | There were reports that some ministers , less optimistic in the face of evidence that a number of her supporters were already defecting to Heseltine , were seeking to stabilise the situation by holding out the prospect that Mrs Thatcher might retire voluntarily in the spring , making an orderly succession possible then . |
| 28 | To relieve tensions in the week before a Cup tie , players were usually taken to Brighton , where the routine was golf on Monday morning , followed by sea-water baths , more golf , training sessions at Brighton FC 's ground and ( compulsory ) cinema visits in the evenings . |
| 29 | Shortly after the invasion United States troops , backed up by forces from various European , Arab and Asian countries , were quickly dispatched to Saudi Arabia in an attempt to shield the kingdom from Iraqi assault and to impress upon President Saddam Hussein of Iraq that he should withdraw his troops from Kuwait . |
| 30 | But he and , after his death , his sister were genuinely attached to Joyce , through whom they had contributed to Mosley 's organisation as a bulwark against Communism . |