Example sentences of "i [was/were] [verb] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was invited to the Royal Premiere in London to view the production before it came to our theatre . |
| 2 | I was escorted to the fifth floor and shown in to a riverside suite which was named after Sir Charles Chaplin , because he always used to stay there when he visited London . |
| 3 | So , imagine my relief when I was called to the front porch , and I was greeted by a cheery ‘ American Red Cross reporting for duty Ma'am . |
| 4 | I was looking to a broader concept than that of agency when considering the responsibility of the creditors in ‘ leaving the matter to the son to obtain the signatures of the parents . ’ |
| 5 | Yet the other day I was listening to an eminent conductor whose Bruckner is often much praised reaching a triple forte long before what is to me self-evidently the work 's pivotal climax . |
| 6 | I was listening to the two in the back working their way through a typical RAF ditty with the repetitive chorus of , ‘ There 's only one bar — BOO ! |
| 7 | I was listening to the same genial , slow voice with which the American gentleman had charmed many since his arrival and yet it now contained something unmistakably covert . |
| 8 | It was there all the time but I had turned my back upon it in a sense , so when I got converted , and of course I was listening to the Big Man 's comments on events and I recognized the validity of what he was saying . |
| 9 | I had a similar experience back in 1978 , when I was elected to the national executive committee of the Labour party . |
| 10 | ‘ One evening in the Veterans ’ Club in Sarajevo , I was summoned to a dark room lit by just one candle to meet the army commander of one of the central districts of Sarajevo . |
| 11 | I tried missing some of these parades , but one day I was summoned to the local headquarters of the organization in Parma where a rather fat , forbidding woman of high rank , dressed in Fascist uniform , told me that if I missed any more I would be suspended from school . |
| 12 | Lord Lloyd interviewed me , and explained that I was to report to the Military Attaché at the Baghdad Embassy , though I was to be attached to the British Institute . |
| 13 | Then there was the resentment over the fur coat she was deprived of because I was sent to a fee-paying school . |
| 14 | Then when I was eight years old , I was sent to a co-educational school . |
| 15 | Finally I was sent to a neurological specialist who said it would be necessary to examine the top half of my spinal cord , which houses the motor for the body 's muscles . |
| 16 | In 1952 I was sent to a local convent school until I was eleven , although my adoptive parents were Protestants . |
| 17 | I was sent to the new office in India to take charge , while Herbert came back to England to marry his Clara . |
| 18 | When we first came to St , Albans , I was sent to the High School for Girls , which despite its name took boys up to the age of ten . |
| 19 | I was born to a British mother , and a father serving in the British Army in Malaysia during 1963 . |
| 20 | I was pressed to a pinpoint , |
| 21 | Overnight I was posted to the other end of the country and the war seemed to recede , but the need for bomber replacement became more urgent . |
| 22 | I was treated to the full force of the General 's disapproval , which was not negligible . |
| 23 | The day before the election I was treated to an unsolicited political speech on behalf of the Conservative Party . |
| 24 | But I was referring to a broader issue : |
| 25 | When I said that I must look into the matter , I was referring to the franked envelope , not its contents . |
| 26 | I was referring to the hon. Member for Blackburn ( Mr. Straw ) . |
| 27 | By now my father and brother were dead , so I was rich , but I considered myself poor , because I was tied to a mad wife until death . ’ |
| 28 | Because of my skills , I was assigned to a small business project in Jamaica — a strange and wonderful place . |
| 29 | The idea was , I was to go to the foster parents , stay there until the baby was born and mobile , and then move to a flat . |
| 30 | True , my eyes did the selecting that guided their evolution , but at every stage I was limited to a small clutch of progeny offered up by random mutation , and my selection " strategy " , such as it was , was opportunistic , capricious and short-term . |