Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [to-vb] me [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other exercises were designed to help me with a problem of co-ordination in hammer-ons and in string skipping . |
| 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 | While he was thinking how to do this , he was asked to bring me to the palace . |
| 4 | Sometime around the middle of the week , Dr MacLennan was allowed to see me for a while , after Diggs overruled my father 's refusal to have me medically inspected by anybody else but him . |
| 5 | Perhaps I was n't the plaything of a mage , who was determined to drag me into a frightening and chaotic world of naked will , only a seriously neurotic person in need of help . |
| 6 | Ted Heath was sent to inform me of the result . |
| 7 | 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 . |