Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [prep] i [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , Denis and I provided the background music for this particular ‘ pack in the box ’ and much hissing was heard from me in the interval into the ear of our Company Manager Jeremy Adams . |
| 2 | I 'm glad you mentioned that cos it was given to me by the wife of the steeplechase handicap a very important man today cos for more than |
| 3 | I refer to a parliamentary answer that was given to me by the Under-Secretary of State for Employment , the hon. Member for Mid-Worcestershire ( Mr. Forth ) . |
| 4 | But , we know that April was a low figure , we also know that July and August are low a figure which comes out from this graph and was given to me by the director yesterday , is a genuine average which is turning out to be between a hundred and a hundred and ten placements per month twelve hundred to fourteen hundred placements per year a thr over a three year average residency period three thousand six hundred to four thousand two hundred placements in residential care , where then is the real problem . |
| 5 | ‘ It was assigned to me by the press , a breed which in my experience cares little for such irrelevancies as accuracy . ’ |
| 6 | Er it was explained to me on the phone . |
| 7 | " Well , mother explained to me what was expected of me in the marriage bed and it sounded so terrifying . |
| 8 | I could do what was expected of me by the crowd , or I could do what he trusted me to do . |
| 9 | Little did I imagine that such a move was destined for me within the next two years . |
| 10 | What occurred after I left was related to me by the men of the village , when I paid the district a second visit some months later . |
| 11 | MUCH OF THE INTERIOR OF MY FATE AND THAT OF JEAN-Claude 's was revealed to me in the opaque , vaporous interior of la Sologne . |
| 12 | At the time tomato purée for the restaurant was preserved in champagne bottles which were then sterilised — a method which was demonstrated to me by the cook at a pensione in Anacapri where I stayed during the summer of 1952 , and which I described in Italian Food . |
| 13 | Another introduction to politics was provided for me in the person of Randolph Churchill . |
| 14 | I 'm very sorry chairman , er Mr n and I were checking er a point in response to a question that was asked to me during the break . |
| 15 | Poverty also brought up romantic visions of the struggling artist , fewer demands and expectations , and the kind of hard-headed practicality that was bred into me in the North of England . |
| 16 | Our favourite photo was taken of me on the marble slab . |
| 17 | I respect er the view that was put to me in the extract from P P G twelve , but i nevertheless think that this is a matter of principle because it does n't apply to a particular res western route , it applies to all the western routes . |
| 18 | Whereas hostility was expressed towards me in the taunts and jeers of my classmates and even by physical assault , I reckoned that Elsie would have had to put up with prejudice of a different sort . |
| 19 | that was sent to me by the the people who want the stuff . |
| 20 | The figure was mentioned to me by the manager of a gay bar who was justifying the role of the establishment , but added , ‘ some of them are not angels you know . |