Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [verb] i [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This man , Tepilit , was injured helping me with the filming of a lion hunt . |
| 2 | I mean , schools the only thing I was , I 'd been governor of a a school for thirty years that was used to depress me with the fact that we could n't get for our schools the things that we needed because to me and to all the people in Harlow who have children are concerned that we are being stopped so much money on education which is the most vital thing in our children 's lives ! |
| 3 | I mean look at myself , my father was a doctor , his father was a schoolteacher , so the way one used to look at things , that immediately when I was born put me in the middle class erm bracket . |
| 4 | While he was thinking how to do this , he was asked to bring me to the palace . |
| 5 | Ted Heath was sent to inform me of the result . |
| 6 | The arched terracotta mount was chosen to remind me of the colour and style of Portuguese houses , and the frame was another easy choice because we saw so much dark wood furniture there . |