Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] i [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | It was designed for me by that spooky little twosome , the Emmanuels ’ |
2 | I felt he was vying with me for proprietary rights over Jean-Claude . |
3 | But she was looking at me with simple , concerned inquiry . |
4 | Quigley was looking at me in open horror now . |
5 | A rough-coated collie called Tip , he was offered to me by some relatives down the dale whilst I still had Chip . |
6 | A story was told to me by one of these old beer runners . |
7 | The deal clearly does not work both ways as we learned from the Squidgy tape ( a copy of which was handed to me in that very restaurant some weeks before its contents were published ) . |
8 | ‘ Car number one was bought by me for two hundred and seventy-eight pounds and sold for one thousand four hundred and twenty-five . |
9 | Er it was volunteered to me before that day . |
10 | Even when she was flying to me from various positions , the slightest disturbance in the landscape might distract her attention . |
11 | But even this sad circumstance was overshadowed for me by political events of the week . |
12 | He was fixed for me in this time , this pose . |
13 | The Purcell Quartet 's second disc of Corelli trio sonatas from Opp. 1 and 2 ( the first was reviewed by me in 6/91 ) challenges our comfortable generalizations about these works . |
14 | Erm and when she was talking to me about different people , I 'd never know who they was , because I was never I was never that interested in Bay to er to find out who they was or to remember she 'd point out somebody and say that 's so and so and then when she 'd mention him a couple of days later I 'd go , Who 's that ? |
15 | But whatever was lost for me by that death I still saw , and see , love as the only real world . |
16 | Nevertheless , I could never be sure exactly what was required of me on these occasions . |
17 | I believed at the time that I more or less grasped the metaphorical implications of this , but after I had put the phone down I found I was not as clear as I should have hoped to be about exactly what was required of me in concrete practical terms . |