Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [vb pp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tom and I were led through the mock-Thirties-liner interior to a table in a rather draughty corner , and were brought freezing spritzers , black bread and tempting French menus . |
| 2 | ‘ However , what upsets me is that I have heard unconfirmed rumours that some of the riders were threatening to pull out if I were put in the third row of the grid as was at first planned . |
| 3 | I was invited to the Royal Premiere in London to view the production before it came to our theatre . |
| 4 | Recently , I was invited inside the hallowed walls of Eastleigh Works , usually the domain of British Rail Engineering Limited but during weekends partly dedicated to ERPS , the Eastleigh Railway Preservation Society . |
| 5 | I was escorted to the fifth floor and shown in to a riverside suite which was named after Sir Charles Chaplin , because he always used to stay there when he visited London . |
| 6 | So , imagine my relief when I was called to the front porch , and I was greeted by a cheery ‘ American Red Cross reporting for duty Ma'am . |
| 7 | The SPAR system was developed at Cambridge University Computer Laboratory while I was supported by the British Library and King 's College , Cambridge . |
| 8 | If ever I was tempted by the seductive stasis of an eidetic image , I punctured its reflecting skin with a dart and tore it away to reveal the structure of habit below . |
| 9 | I did n't buy any masks , but I was tempted by the matching two-foot-high figurines of King Birendra and Queen Aishwarya . |
| 10 | The rally I went to in Leicester in 1987 was neither so gross nor so damaging , but as a reasonably sympathetic onlooker , I was irritated by the frantic urgency and the artificial and inflated mood of tension , good for nobody 's judgment . |
| 11 | The cast was rather good , featuring Bill Nighy and his floppy blond hair and a very svelte-looking Charlotte Cornwell , though I was irritated by the unsympathetic little-and-large duo at the centre , with Janet McTeer towering above the tubby little Imelda Staunton ( as I recall , the heroine of the book hunted alone ) . |
| 12 | I was hit on the right leg and nearly fell . |
| 13 | I was touched by the good wishes of the crew when I went ashore . |
| 14 | Anticipating the harsh lighting in our room , Leslie had brought with him some candles , and I was touched by the romantic tenderness of the gesture . |
| 15 | I had a similar experience back in 1978 , when I was elected to the national executive committee of the Labour party . |
| 16 | I tried missing some of these parades , but one day I was summoned to the local headquarters of the organization in Parma where a rather fat , forbidding woman of high rank , dressed in Fascist uniform , told me that if I missed any more I would be suspended from school . |
| 17 | And I made up my mind — " Now Mary Edgar you 'll be terribly sea-sick , " so I was prepared for the worst . |
| 18 | I was commissioned by Cambridge University Press specifically to base a book on this review and sent a copy of the manuscript to Bernard Carr a year before publication , I was faced with the difficult task of dividing credit between Carr and Rees , and the original authors whose papers they reviewed . |
| 19 | I was stopped at the horse-car entrance by a locked door and , in response to my repeated knocking , by a determined female who told me I was n't welcome . |
| 20 | Upon awakening , I was stirred by the muted chug and hum of the neighbour 's Cadillac . |
| 21 | I was sent to the new office in India to take charge , while Herbert came back to England to marry his Clara . |
| 22 | When we first came to St , Albans , I was sent to the High School for Girls , which despite its name took boys up to the age of ten . |
| 23 | I was born into the first generation of women who could actually choose — without risking death in an illegal abortion — when and whether we would have children . |
| 24 | It was just a very low part , there was a little shopping area just round there at the time er , a butcher 's shop and a greengrocer 's shop and a Post Office , Street was the Post Office on the corner , and then Street and Road which lead down into , Lane and just round oh just round there you see , but I was born at the last house in the Street almost at the bottom of Street . |
| 25 | If I was born on the eleventh of the eleventh of the eleventh right , no if I was born on the eleventh about nineteen hundred , then on the eleventh of the eleventh of the eleventh of the eleventh , announce , that 's when I was born zero , six , six , eleventh , eleventh , sixty-six , I was eleven on the eleventh of the eleventh of seventy-seven , I was , I was twenty-two on the eleventh of the eleventh , eighty-eight , I was thirty-three on the eleventh of the eleventh noticed how they 're all double all the way through |
| 26 | If I was born on the eleventh of the eleventh of the eleventh right , no if I was born on the eleventh about nineteen hundred , then on the eleventh of the eleventh of the eleventh of the eleventh , announce , that 's when I was born zero , six , six , eleventh , eleventh , sixty-six , I was eleven on the eleventh of the eleventh of seventy-seven , I was , I was twenty-two on the eleventh of the eleventh , eighty-eight , I was thirty-three on the eleventh of the eleventh noticed how they 're all double all the way through |
| 27 | I was born on the twenty eighth of December nineteen ten . |
| 28 | I was born on the English side , but prefer to be Scottish . |
| 29 | I was born in the seventies she might be in this one . |
| 30 | Yet I was reassured by the very vapidity of these doctors or joggers or bodybuilders , these vigour-experts — something to do with their unsmiling pursuit of the good life . |