Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] me [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , Denis and I provided the background music for this particular ‘ pack in the box ’ and much hissing was heard from me in the interval into the ear of our Company Manager Jeremy Adams . |
| 2 | It was given to me as a present so I 'd feel funny about selling it myself , but you could maybe buy a pair of shoes for Sonja with it or something . |
| 3 | She said , ‘ You see , before the war , this was given to me as a present , and it was full of chocolates . ’ |
| 4 | The watch was given to me as a surety by Meredith Putt , lord of Swinbrook Manor . ’ |
| 5 | Mary said : ‘ Within 20 minutes of his birth he was given to me in a blanket , still covered in blood . |
| 6 | This recipe was given to me by a well-travelled customer on her return from the USA . |
| 7 | It is not it was given to me by a nice gentleman from Napier College doing |
| 8 | I 'm glad you mentioned that cos it was given to me by the wife of the steeplechase handicap a very important man today cos for more than |
| 9 | I refer to a parliamentary answer that was given to me by the Under-Secretary of State for Employment , the hon. Member for Mid-Worcestershire ( Mr. Forth ) . |
| 10 | But , we know that April was a low figure , we also know that July and August are low a figure which comes out from this graph and was given to me by the director yesterday , is a genuine average which is turning out to be between a hundred and a hundred and ten placements per month twelve hundred to fourteen hundred placements per year a thr over a three year average residency period three thousand six hundred to four thousand two hundred placements in residential care , where then is the real problem . |
| 11 | TVH , as it is generally known , was typified for me by a man called Alf Mignot , who died in 1987 in his early sixties . |
| 12 | ‘ It was assigned to me by the press , a breed which in my experience cares little for such irrelevancies as accuracy . ’ |
| 13 | Er it was explained to me on the phone . |
| 14 | The impact was so great that the effect of it was to remain with me in the months ahead and give me strength when I most needed it . |
| 15 | Diamond Head was leaping at me from the right . |
| 16 | However , the reverse of this experience was reported to me by a woman who lost her lover in a drowning accident . |
| 17 | The Sussex campus was shrinking below me into a collection of children 's play houses , then models , then crumbs , then fly droppings . |
| 18 | Tony Visconti : ‘ At that time , we had gone into the studio to record ‘ The Man Who Sold The World ’ , and the horrible thing that was happening to me as a producer , the nightmare of my life , was that David and Angela were becoming totally entwined and enraptured with each other . |
| 19 | What was happening to my body — not only the changes brought about by puberty , but the fact that the clothes it wore and the food it consumed were chosen for it by someone else — was a metaphor for what was happening to me as a whole person . |
| 20 | " Well , mother explained to me what was expected of me in the marriage bed and it sounded so terrifying . |
| 21 | I could do what was expected of me by the crowd , or I could do what he trusted me to do . |
| 22 | She was looking at me with a special kind of interest now . |
| 23 | I got her a pair of tough brogues from the plastic bag and all the time I was putting them on her she was looking at me with a vacant stare , her eyes still very wide , the pupils enormous . |
| 24 | He was looking at me in a desperate way . |
| 25 | He was looking at me in a puzzled way . |
| 26 | Emily was looking at me in a way I found frankly flirtatious . |
| 27 | I could tell that my father was looking at me from the other end of the table , swilling his juice round in his glass and staring at my head as I bent over my plate . |
| 28 | Little did I imagine that such a move was destined for me within the next two years . |
| 29 | By Tuesday she was flirting with me in a sweet , old-fashioned way , blue eyes as young as her memory . |
| 30 | What occurred after I left was related to me by the men of the village , when I paid the district a second visit some months later . |