Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [be] [vb pp] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He deserved to be told the truth to his face . |
| 2 | I deserved to be shown the door . |
| 3 | In my spare time and during vacations , between 1976 and 1978 , I set up what later came to be called the Standing Conference of Asian Youth Organizations . |
| 4 | This led many later Greek thinkers to regard musical theory as a branch of mathematics ( together with geometry , arithmetic , and astronomy it constituted what eventually came to be called the quadrivium ) , although this view was not universally accepted , the most influential of those who rejected it being Aristoxenus of Tarentum ( fourth century BC ) . |
| 5 | After his last visit , he had gone to her and begged to be told the truth . |
| 6 | When we landed at Bombay ( for the story has a happy ending ) I asked to be shown the piece of tarmac pasteurised for the Pope to kiss on his recent visit , so I could bless it too ( poojahs is the Hindi word ) and give thanks for deliverance . |
| 7 | Eliot asked to be shown the lavatory . |
| 8 | He handed the plastic bag to the white-coated technician and asked to be told the moment the fingerprints were identified . |
| 9 | She expected to be shot the instant she emerged . |
| 10 | But though my spirits were high , the shadow of that man , who liked to be called the Ángel of Death , travelled with me , the memory of his good looks , his well-oiled virility , above all Iris Sunderby 's apparent infatuation , constantly there in my mind . |
| 11 | Lord Strange wrote to Robert Cecil in 1593 that since his father , the Earl of Derby , was unlikely to live long , he wished to be given the earl 's office of Chamberlain of Chester . |
| 12 | The plaintiff argued that it was not therefore open to the Revenue to seek an alteration of the existing assessments , because any information supplied in compliance with a s 17 , FA 1975 notice had to be made the subject of a new or further assessment . |
| 13 | People had to be given the chance to exercise choice over schooling , hospital treatment , and housing . |
| 14 | SULTRY singer Sade had to be given the kiss of life when a spectacular underwater scene for her new video went dramatically wrong . |
| 15 | ‘ The Egypt Committee ’ , Selwyn Lloyd remembered , ‘ would , however , continue to function , but if emergency decisions had to be taken the Cabinet would be recalled . ’ |
| 16 | In 1899 Silvester Horne in his Popular History of the Free Churches claimed that Councils ‘ came together under the shadow of a great common peril … whenever sacerdotal intolerance had to be resisted the machinery should be in existence … |
| 17 | Trainer 's wife , best friend — either way , she had to be told the truth . |