Example sentences of "described [prep] me [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It has been described to me as an isolated house in the midst of fields , through which are only rough and rutty waggon tracks , and I have been told too , that it is hidden from passers along the road by a dark grove of trees . |
| 2 | The landing strip had been described to me in some detail . |
| 3 | The Pakistani village of Mohinuddinpur was described to me by Shamim , a woman who now lives in Bradford . |
| 4 | In Wandsworth the attitude of the Area Health Authority and of Health Visitors was described to me by Geeta Amin , a social worker with Wandsworth Community Relations Council . |
| 5 | This case was described to me by Hamida Kazi , a community worker in Bradford . |
| 6 | Another reaction , just as common , was described to me by a Sikh girl from Birmingham : |
| 7 | What it is like being married into a ‘ low status ’ family in the Midlands was described to me by Surjeet , a teacher in her early twenties who had grown up in Britain . |
| 8 | As slim as a reed and as shy as a bird with the eyes of a gazelle , were all the aspects of beauty once described to me by the Youngest Son as most desirable in a woman . |
| 9 | One problem which has been described to me by nurses and health visitors who returned to practice before the advent of re-entry programmes is the difficulty represented by assumed knowledge . |
| 10 | Its effect was described to me by a white probationary teacher : |
| 11 | When I entered the Winter Gardens he was emerging surrounded by an hysterical crowd , having been greeted by a demonstration described to me by a hostile witness as ‘ reminiscent of a Nuremberg Rally ’ . |