Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [prep] me [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ They were given to me as a present . |
2 | These words were spoken to me with a strong American accent . |
3 | She sat quite still and her eyes were fixed on me with a curious , dark look of sympathy mixed with something else . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | It was given to me as a present so I 'd feel funny about selling it myself , but you could maybe buy a pair of shoes for Sonja with it or something . |
6 | She said , ‘ You see , before the war , this was given to me as a present , and it was full of chocolates . ’ |
7 | The watch was given to me as a surety by Meredith Putt , lord of Swinbrook Manor . ’ |
8 | Mary said : ‘ Within 20 minutes of his birth he was given to me in a blanket , still covered in blood . |
9 | This recipe was given to me by a well-travelled customer on her return from the USA . |
10 | It is not it was given to me by a nice gentleman from Napier College doing |
11 | 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 |
12 | 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 ) . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | TVH , as it is generally known , was typified for me by a man called Alf Mignot , who died in 1987 in his early sixties . |
15 | ‘ It was assigned to me by the press , a breed which in my experience cares little for such irrelevancies as accuracy . ’ |
16 | Er it was explained to me on the phone . |
17 | However , the reverse of this experience was reported to me by a woman who lost her lover in a drowning accident . |
18 | " Well , mother explained to me what was expected of me in the marriage bed and it sounded so terrifying . |
19 | I could do what was expected of me by the crowd , or I could do what he trusted me to do . |
20 | Little did I imagine that such a move was destined for me within the next two years . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | She lived at New Houses , and was related to me in a mixed up kind of way — her father and my grandmother were cousins , but what that made me to Miss Bayles I can not imagine ! |
23 | 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 . |
24 | The above account was written to me in a long , beautifully typed letter . |
25 | ‘ It was told to me by a black guy : ‘ What 's black with red stripes ? |
26 | I should be alone , and the old custom that clerks resigned on marriage was told to me in no uncertain way . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | The opening of the Scherzo sounds remarkably like the twittering of birds in the trees , something I first noticed when it was played to me on an 1820s Graaf piano similar to the one owned by Schubert . |
29 | Another introduction to politics was provided for me in the person of Randolph Churchill . |
30 | It may mean ‘ this is a role which was ascribed to me as a woman and which I resented ’ . |