Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] 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 | I was situated immediately behind the cameraman , being at the organ and playing for the service . |
| 3 | I was called away to the hospital so I left her at the house waiting for Nigel to turn up to collect her . ’ |
| 4 | Caught unawares I was dragged helplessly into the nightmare world of The Catacombs . |
| 5 | Caught unawares I was dragged helplessly into the nightmare world of The Catacombs . |
| 6 | As I slid to the floor I was kicked hard in the face with a slippered foot . |
| 7 | I think I was destroyed long before the divorce courts . |
| 8 | I was struck too by the way in which we started the programme by considering the dangers of the situation and there 's no doubt that that 's correct , but it is important to say , perhaps the most important thing is that the end of is n't in the Soviet Union and the break up of the Soviet Empire is an enormously positive event for all of us , for the citizens of the Soviet Union and for us in the West it gives the opportunity for much greater stability , real stability , peace and prosperity then ever existed under the old regime . |
| 9 | I was treated abominably by the police when I was assaulted in the home |
| 10 | I was chased mercilessly about the streets by my campaign assistant , Simon Heffer , who is now the chief leader-writer of the Daily Telegraph but whom I knew in those days as a fellow ( but younger ) old boy from Chelmsford . |
| 11 | It turned out to be a very arty , dimly-lit place , and I was harried constantly by the manager , who wanted me out before he opened up , but somehow I managed to get the job done , and I was quite pleased with it too ’ . |
| 12 | I was led thither by the fiscal , who knows them well and is kind to them . |
| 13 | ‘ I was rammed twice in the 250cc race when in the lead and then fell off later on . |
| 14 | I was misled partly by the analogy with the surface of the earth . |
| 15 | ‘ I was released late in the evening . |
| 16 | ‘ In Misano , when we crashed on a fast right-hander and Steve cracked a shoulder , I was thrown right over the top . |
| 17 | I was taken away from the school by my father and tutored in a caravan by an eccentric ex-priest . |
| 18 | I was taken there for the first time when I was six weeks old in a motor side car down from London to just within ten miles of Bury St Edmunds . |
| 19 | I was taken aback by the decor — vivid red , yellow and green geometric patterns screaming from every wall . |
| 20 | I was awakened sometime in the small hours with a snorting and snuffling and a large shadow on my tent . |
| 21 | My leg was injured so I was put immediately into the ship 's sick bay until we arrived safely back in Liverpool . |
| 22 | I was stationed right on the Pilgrims Way |
| 23 | I was told later by the Flight Sergeant that they counted five cannon and thirty 7.62mm holes in the machine . |
| 24 | I was carried away on the wave of enthusiasm which , one could almost feel this physically , bore the speaker along from sentence to sentence . |
| 25 | I was stretched full-length upon the bodies , my battered hand resting on the rim of the tub . |
| 26 | I was left outside on the grass verge while my mother went to the bedside . |
| 27 | He ran , and I was left there on the step with this huge bunch of flowers . |
| 28 | I found it really hard when I was left totally to the women 's company … |
| 29 | I was left cruelly at the mercy of the ‘ sames ’ : a different in the middle of identicals . |
| 30 | You were born here in the Sun Chamber , Fergus . ’ |