Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [vb pp] [adv] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is teasing me , as the hon. Member for Normanton ( Mr. O'Brien ) and I were teased occasionally in the Standing Committee on the Local Government Finance Bill during the past three weeks . |
| 2 | My brother and I were brought up in the Catholic faith . |
| 3 | As I slid to the floor I was kicked hard in the face with a slippered foot . |
| 4 | ‘ I was rammed twice in the 250cc race when in the lead and then fell off later on . |
| 5 | ‘ I was released late in the evening . |
| 6 | It is simply that I was brought up in the East of Scotland and have lived in places whither the Orangemen walketh not , neither in triumph nor provocation . |
| 7 | I was brought up in the world of the arts because , apart from the Rothschild side which had some influence on me , my mother was a completely Bloomsbury figure , and her mother was a great friend of Matisse and a distinguished collector — she was a Strachey , very English . |
| 8 | As a male Caucasian with a father who had died of a coronary thrombosis at the age of 59 , I was brought up in the smoky atmosphere of a northern industrial town . |
| 9 | Like most people , I was brought up in the belief that a nightmare was something bad that happened while you were asleep . |
| 10 | And it it was , I mean I was brought up in the country and it , I found it really shocking that people had to live like that , you know . |
| 11 | I was brought up in the country , on a farm you know , so I 'll try and sort of make you know equal amount of flowers in each , and then er it can be halved . |
| 12 | ‘ I was brought up in the countryside . |
| 13 | I was brought up in the cloister , and have Latin and French as well as English and Welsh . ’ |
| 14 | I was brought up in the days of the old Police Acts . |
| 15 | It was an unfortunate evening for me : I was knocked out in the second round , the only time I was knocked out , either at Eton or at Oxford . |
| 16 | I was awakened sometime in the small hours with a snorting and snuffling and a large shadow on my tent . |
| 17 | When I was tipped back in the dentist 's chair |
| 18 | So I was laid out in the back of the van on the bed and he 's driving down this field to put the tent , because it had little er bits you know where it 's marked out for you to camp , and I 'm driving around in the back saying , yes you 've , you 've just missed the fence there and you know . |
| 19 | I was caught up in the Truby King Mothercraft doctrine of 1935 … |
| 20 | I was woken up in the night sometimes , the spare bed in my room being made up for someone they 'd met down the Club , the other lodger 's room already occupied . |
| 21 | You were born here in the Sun Chamber , Fergus . ’ |
| 22 | This may seem idiotic to you , if you were brought up in the " filling-station " tradition . |
| 23 | Belinda was instantly aware of the fact that she was dressed only in the silk slip that Faye had decided best captured the mood she wanted for her painting . |
| 24 | Priscilla Savage remembers her mother telling her that she was placed down in the shade between two bundles of corn in an angle of the harvest field , and she was fed during the brief intervals her mother won from the gavelling . |
| 25 | ‘ Beth taught herself how to sit because on her very first session she was kicked violently in the chest . |
| 26 | She was most welcoming and wanted their children to have their friends in , she was a neighbourly woman , but if those children were still what she called ‘ hanging around ’ by the time dinner was ready and she was held up in the business of getting the evening meal dealt with , it put her out . |
| 27 | She was picked up in the centre of town in broad daylight . |
| 28 | It was hell for McColgan as she was picked off in the run-in for a consolation bronze . |
| 29 | In 1979 as a hospital worker , she was caught up in the Winter of Discontent . |
| 30 | She was caught up in the drama of a big story . |