Example sentences of "[conj] i was [verb] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lord Lloyd interviewed me , and explained that I was to report to the Military Attaché at the Baghdad Embassy , though I was to be attached to the British Institute . |
| 2 | It was during my second year as a news reporter that I was assigned to the Police Court beat . |
| 3 | He looked at my pityingly , no doubt thinking that I was succumbing to the English diseases , amateurism and laziness . |
| 4 | He said : ‘ I was with him when the call came in to do the video so I was listening to the call , although I was minding my own business . |
| 5 | In the light of this and a vivid description of an unexpected home delivery to my husband — we were taking no chances — and I was rushed to the Birmingham Maternity Hospital , with 5 minute contractions , the evening before the 2nd Estimated Day Delivery with what turned out to be a false alarm ! |
| 6 | My employment with CBC began at the salary of $150. per month which was very acceptable , and I was assigned to the newly created post as Talks Producer . |
| 7 | Micheline sounded excited to hear from me and I was invited to the group 's meeting a few weeks later . |
| 8 | His reflex action was to bend and swing round violently , and I was thrown to the ground . |
| 9 | Some sympathetic mothers covered it with bandages and bulging dressings and I was driven to the doctors ' where I was given a more impressive bandage , leaving my finger looking the size of a small banana . |
| 10 | The operation took place at midday and I was taken to the recovery room in the course of the afternoon . |
| 11 | I gave my name to a clerk and I was taken to the manager 's room at once . |
| 12 | As we lifted it , it came out and banged me on the top there , and it knocked me out , knocked me out and I was going to the doctor , but what frightened them all , this was the funny thing , what frightened them all to death , was the fact that I was violently sick you see , and all was bright red you see , and well the fireman passed out , well , do you know what it was ? we had blackcurrant ! |
| 13 | I felt a sharp pain , and I was pinned to the mast by my shoulder . |
| 14 | That was quite funny because it was our first Christmas down there and I was saying to the housekeeper that I I would n't mind having people come and stay and not a problem because we 've got a lovely cooker and we 're going to bring our microwave down from . |
| 15 | Bradley Star is a very nice horse he 's a classy performer this one , Josh Gifford 's horses are in tremendous form and I was talking to the man who who rides him Deckland Murphy he 's my next door neighbour he thinks he 'll run a big race . |
| 16 | He took me to the BBC Studios in Shepherd 's Bush and I was introduced to the lady producer , who was charming . |
| 17 | ‘ But I was born to the sword . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I used to do women 's programmes but I was moved to the God slot . |
| 19 | But I was taken to the vault before a concert in the church . |
| 20 | ‘ People were literally running for their lives but I was rooted to the spot . ’ |
| 21 | Somebody must have reported the meeting , because I was summoned to the priest-administrator 's room at the palace the next day for a tongue lashing . |
| 22 | Because I was going to the hospital wing I did n't get taken up until about nine o'clock , so I was the last one . |
| 23 | Or rather that is not , in the first instance , what I asked myself , because I was driven to the view — incorrectly — that there could be no link between the two crimes . |
| 24 | ‘ I was sacked because I was known to the local RUC as an ex-republican prisoner , ’ he said from Portlaoise Prison . |
| 25 | I think she wrote it while I was talking to the doctor , crying my eyes out . |
| 26 | Before I was elected to the House , I worked as a solicitor in a law centre in Leicester where I dealt with many immigration cases . |
| 27 | The headmaster from 1927 to 1953 ( from the year before I was born to the year before I joined the staff ) was C. G. M. Broom : a scholar of Brasenose and , like all his predecessors , a classic in the old manner . |
| 28 | ‘ Before I was introduced to the Food Addict 's Diet my weeks were made up of ‘ bad days ’ and ‘ good ’ days . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | During his three years at University College , London , he got work each Christmas with the post office in his home town of Woking : ‘ When I was coming to the end of my university period I sat a civil service examination with possible jobs at the end which included income tax , the secret service and the post office which involved travelling as a management trainee . |