Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [vb pp] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A fortnight ago , I was invited to a meeting of Somali refugees in East Ham town hall . |
| 2 | ‘ I lived my life in Siglo XX as described in the book until 1980 , when I was invited to a conference on women in Denmark . |
| 3 | I used to wonder what on earth people found to talk about for so long , and on the occasion when I was called to a neighbour 's telephone in Baldersdale , I was so uneasy that someone had to hold it to my ear . |
| 4 | About three years ago , I was called to a bread commercial : Windmill Bread . |
| 5 | I was called to a house and there was a man in agony . |
| 6 | This could be made in either double jacquard or Fair Isle and I was inspired by a sweater in very subtle colours worn by Iris Bishop ( not for once , one of her own creations ! ) . |
| 7 | Certainly in my own experience I have never come across armed smugglers , although on at least one occasion I was threatened with a knife when attempting to stop a seaman leaving a ship , and once I was attached by a ship 's steward when attempting to relieve him of a briefcase full of uncustomed goods . |
| 8 | One night I was joined by a visitor to Seend , anxious to be of help , Colonel Faithorne , who was some relation of the Bishop of Bath and Wells , and who showed intellectual interests , including a knowledge of Eliot , which I was not to meet again in a soldier until I made the acquaintance in 1974 of my late father-in-law . |
| 9 | The position is , of course , quite different if the witness knows the person concerned well enough to say : ‘ I was hit by a man I know well and whose name is Jack Spratt . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ The second occasion , of course , was when I was hit by a car in Monte Carlo on my third visit there … let me see , yes , it would have been twenty-seven years ago , three days before Christmas . |
| 11 | On the way to my hotel room I was dragged into a meeting between some Japanese and Spanish weavers . |
| 12 | I was dragged along a sandbank , but it was still good . |
| 13 | I was dragged to a place that I found later was the premises of the Secret Police , ‘ the complex ’ , code named ‘ Fixed Point One ( FP1 ) ’ . |
| 14 | Before I could examine them , I was buffeted by a gust of wind and rain . |
| 15 | All the reports I had done to do with my mental state have all said that I 'm not crazy , and yet I was diagnosed as a psychopath and bunged in Broadmoor . |
| 16 | I had hoped to slip in unnoticed but , almost as soon as I booked in the hotel , I was isolated by a dusk to dawn curfew . |
| 17 | Yet this is how crying in infants is sometimes interpreted : the child is being naughty ; naughtiness is punished ; smacking is how I was punished as a child ; so I smack my baby . |
| 18 | Some four and a half years ago when I was elected as a branch secretary of a fairly substantial branch in the Birmingham Region , I had two hours with the then finance officer and he said , well it did n't last the two hours , and he said er , well you know all there is to know now , about how to run this branch . |
| 19 | Still , I was rewarded with a holiday to remember with spectacular views of mountain scenery , a sun tan and no blisters ! |
| 20 | It often works , though once in London when I so far forgot myself as to try this ploy , I was rewarded by a grimace of fascinating sarcasm ! |
| 21 | Then I was summoned for a talk : ‘ Do n't worry , we 'll get this man you suspect in for interrogation and the truth will triumph ’ . |
| 22 | I was dressed in a cream linen suit with a light grey silk blouse . |
| 23 | As I drew nearer , however , I was nagged by a feeling which was soon confirmed . |
| 24 | Not long after that meeting I was faced with a problem over my official duties and I urgently sought his advice . |
| 25 | ‘ I was stopped by a catch fence at the field which undoubtedly saved me . ’ |
| 26 | I saw one forlorn notice saying " Sergeants ' Mess " , and was about to explore the rest of the camp when I was stopped by a shout . |
| 27 | Trying to get in the ground the right way , I was stopped by a riot policeman 's shield and shouted at in Dutch : only the fact that I could reply in Dutch saved a potentially ugly misunderstanding . |
| 28 | Still , something was expected and hoped of me there ; I was credited with a future , and I called some fondness into being , even though this was because they did not know what lay under my surface . |
| 29 | I was sent to a boarding-school — ’ She made an angry gesture with her hand . |
| 30 | ‘ I was sent into a room and somebody said ‘ Oh , you wash the floor ’ because a client who was incontinent was walking around . |