Example sentences of "i [was/were] [vb pp] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Startop , Drummle , Herbert and I were asked to go to the office at six o'clock the next evening . |
| 2 | At every step I was told not to do it because I was bound to suffer from the kind of prejudice I was always talking about . |
| 3 | I have been saying he is an absolute ‘ bag o shite ’ since day one ( I was so mystified by the signing I was moved to write to the local rag — and they printed it ! ! ) . |
| 4 | Central Television came and made an interview/ documentary film for their weekly current affairs programme Central Lobby , during the course of which I was seen driving around the neighbourhood , first preceding and then followed by the camera crew . |
| 5 | Her grandmother made the illegitimate girl into a Cinderella : ‘ I was made to work in the house … a house slave . ’ |
| 6 | My eyes became coals of fire in my head , and I believed every moment that I was condemned to perish in the belly of a whale . |
| 7 | JUNE 20 : Today I was selected to play for the village . |
| 8 | I had been successful as a boxer at Eton and in my first term at Oxford I was selected to box against the Army . |
| 9 | I was determined to get to the Whitechapel Road to see the George Stubbs Exhibition and not to take a taxi . |
| 10 | ‘ After that , totally by chance , I was asked to go on the road with Mike and the Mechanics and it fitted around the 1989 work I was doing with the Floyd . |
| 11 | At the recent Annual Parish Meeting of Nether Wyresdale I was asked to press for the extension of the pavement at least as far at the end of the existing hedge . |
| 12 | It was an enormous poster of various garden birds which I was asked to do for the school office . |
| 13 | Once I dreamed that I was asked to contribute to the soundtrack album of a film called Honeymoon In Vegas , featuring a selection of Elvis Presley songs performed by a variety of artists . |
| 14 | I was asked to concentrate on the motion and the Bill and that is what I intend to do . |
| 15 | He erm he was n't giving evidence at the enquiry , but erm it was at his suggestion that I was asked to meet with the Chief Planning Officer prior to the to talk about alternative sites . |
| 16 | Although still nominally under the CID organizational structure , and still holding the title of detective , I was detailed to deal with the new and very ambiguous ‘ prig ’ — the drug user . |
| 17 | Arising from this , I was offered coaching by the College coach ; I think his name was Pearse , and he was one of Dan Maskel 's assistants at Queen 's Club . |
| 18 | I had been planning to go to the Nurburgring for testing the day after the race , but I was told to return to the factory and stop the new car I was building . |
| 19 | After this I was told to sit by the fire beside my benefactor . |
| 20 | another one he had during his work and he says straight away look I was put to work splitting wood , do you see that in the , paragraph on the right hand side , the next day I was told to report to the dairy barns to help milk cows , then he worked in the garden , he also took care of the bees , harvested honey for the family , then in nineteen fifty three I was transferred to the cheese making farm , now here 's a spiritual brother thinking he 's going into the battle to do all sorts of spiritual things , and yet these were his assignments , there 's a lesson here for you and I . |
| 21 | And within er a week I was told to go into the dry part , handling , in the buffing shop . |
| 22 | I was told to go to the telephone . |
| 23 | So I was told to go to the dermatologist . |
| 24 | He said : ‘ I was caught dancing with the wrong girl at a party . |
| 25 | He sat me down and as the camera whirred , I was encouraged to ramble about the past . |
| 26 | Thus it was that , as I was wheeled perspiring into the editor 's office , that the first words ever spoken to me by an NME bigwig will remain with me for the rest of my life . |
| 27 | I was a bodyguard for a little while — not a very successful one , really , I was the weediest bodyguard that you 've ever seen , but I was hired to look after the Sheikh of Quatar — she 's a female . |
| 28 | My belayer has a leg span at least 18 inches wider than mine , so I was forced to cling to the merely vertical left wall . |
| 29 | My next bout of health problems prevented me from continuing this search , and I was forced to wait for the weather to become a little sunnier before taking the risk of venturing out . |
| 30 | They refused to open the gate , and became aggressive , so I was forced to pay for the extra hours parking . |