Example sentences of "[pron] was [vb pp] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last year I was invited to Wimbledon on the big day by ticket-holding members of the media . |
| 2 | First of all I was invited to lunch in Leeds and they sent the helicopter for me , piloted by Captain John Leeson , who had done all the flying for the aerial shots in the film . |
| 3 | Today I was invited to tea at Lady Emily 's to meet Krishnaji . |
| 4 | By morning , I was covered in bites from a number of loathsome insects who fed better than I did . |
| 5 | G. Hare , D.S.C. , who takes up the story of the preparations : ‘ In mid April 1941 I was called to London for a secret verbal appointment and interviewed by Rear-Admiral Clement Moody , the Fifth Sea Lord ( he had been my Captain in ‘ Eagle ’ ) . |
| 6 | I was tempted by fantasies of the past , |
| 7 | I was moved from home to home . |
| 8 | As the son and grandson of miners , I was reared on stories of coal and collieries . |
| 9 | Well I , well er I came back to Britain er I , I was er liberated by General Patton in a , a small place called Erfurt I was flown from Erfurt into Cherbourg , and from Cherbourg into a small place called Amersham which was a reception station for prisoners of war , where we were treated er on entering the camp we were handed a telegram . |
| 10 | He said he was to get £30,000 to £40,000 for his role , and added : ‘ I went down the A82 via Fort William before I was stopped by police at Doune . ’ |
| 11 | I was sent to Bedford in Bedfordshire . |
| 12 | and I was sent to Margate with my Mum . |
| 13 | His marriage , which had been arranged by his family , was n't a success , and , following a Diomede tradition , I was sent to England for my schooling . ’ |
| 14 | I was perfectly happy until I was sent to school at the age of five . |
| 15 | In fact , I was sent to bed as a punishment . |
| 16 | Of course I was sent to bed without any supper . |
| 17 | I was sent to prison for five weeks . |
| 18 | After fighting with the 8th Army at El Alamein I was sent to Leros via Palestine . |
| 19 | One day I had a mind-blowing experience ; I was sent on relief to Sainsbury 's Finchley Road shop . |
| 20 | I was born at Odness in nineteen twelve . |
| 21 | I was born in London in nineteen thirty-eight , but my father was German , my mother was English , I was actually born in the German Hospital in London . |
| 22 | I was born in Wapping in the year nineteen hundred and six , my father was a docker , one of my earliest recollections is of the dock strike of nineteen hundred and eleven , in which I played a part lining up at the soup kitchens to get soup for the family . |
| 23 | Yes , I was born in Lane at Lane on the eleventh November , nineteen seventeen . |
| 24 | I was born in Barcelona in 1929 . |
| 25 | I was born in Hampstead at 10.00 pm. on a Tuesday night and my Mother was very glad to see me , because I was her first boy ; she had already produced two girls with the help of my Father and as the years rolled on she gave birth to another two boys . |
| 26 | ‘ So I was brainwashed by William about Eddie 's death , but even so , whatever I believed , I would never have been able to hurt you ! ’ |
| 27 | At the actual moment I was transfixed with horror by the antics of the small black car . |
| 28 | In my own case by the time I became chairman of ICI , I had not actively sold in the marketplace for nine years , although , of course , as a director of a large international company I was involved from time to time in negotiations of one sort or another . |
| 29 | Breathing was even more difficult now that I had stopped running , and I was racked by bouts of coughing . |
| 30 | Do you understand what I am trying to tell you , that I was filled with distaste for everything ? |