Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [vb pp] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | more through magazines than I did at school , because in school I was taught nothing about pleasure , it was all very biological with a diagram of the male and the female , exactly what happened , there was nothing about er , sexually transmitted diseases , pleasure or abortion , contraception , nothing mentioned , only the mere basics . |
| 2 | I was given it at the end of a stormy course on race relations given to staff at Hen don Police College . |
| 3 | ‘ I was bitten lots of times by mosquitoes , once just above my navel , where my shirt buttons were bursting open . |
| 4 | I was taken into the , my wife died in January of nineteen eighty nine , I was taken into the local psychiatric hospital at in the December of nineteen eighty nine and I was told I was gon na be given an experimental drug , I was told nothing about it or any anything to do with any of the side effects , I I was in th I was on Prozac for about four days , I suffered horrendous side effects , shaking and one thing and another . |
| 5 | He reported success with Yellow-root ( i.e. Hydrastis canadensis ) as it had ‘ flowered and ripened seeds in our garden , two years past , from some roots which were sent me from the inland parts of your country . |
| 6 | And all they that heard it wondered at those things which were told them by the shepherds . |
| 7 | The seeds of these two sorts were sent from Peru by Mr. Joseph de Jussieu to the Royal garden at Paris , part of which was sent me by his brother Bernard de Jussieu of the Royal Academy of Science ’ |
| 8 | And when they had seen it they made known abroad the saying which was told them concerning the child . |
| 9 | Subject presumes perceived er speaker as pr prestigious and authoritative and they perceived that there might be future interaction with him perceived his speech is more similar to their own than subjects who were told nothing about the speaker . |
| 10 | ‘ Naturally , but you 'd still have to say what the story was before you were offered anything for it . ’ |
| 11 | Chrissie admits that these came from the store restaurant 's stocks , but claims that she was given them by Fred , the chef , in return for her helping out over her lunch break in the kitchen , which was short handed . |
| 12 | Chrissie admitted that these came from the store restaurant 's stocks , but claimed that she was given them by Fred — , the chef , in return for her helping out over her lunch break in the kitchen , which was short-handed . |
| 13 | Her portrayal was so convincing that she was offered nothing but bitch characters . |
| 14 | What we had was basically method things where we were given lots of experimental things we would do in the laboratory , but no real philosophy behind it , no sod of follow through . |
| 15 | Erm , last year , we were given it for free , erm |
| 16 | Here we were sorted our into groups according to the types of honours and quite a long wait ensued . |
| 17 | The Department for National Savings , for example , contains enough papers that if they were piled one on top of the other they would reach the height of nine and a half Mount Everests ! |
| 18 | They will recollect the guidelines they were given themselves as children . |
| 19 | Several London children who had been allocated to secondary education in a grammar or central school found , after they were evacuated , that they were denied it by the absence of such provision in their reception area . |
| 20 | London Transport held very strong views in favour of standardization , so when in 1936 , the ex-Croydon cars were due for an annual overhaul and relicensing , they were withdrawn one at a time and replaced by E/1 Class cars between October 1936 and January 1937 . |
| 21 | Just as soon as it was cut you In fact you 'd to go er ev everybody , in that day , you 'd maybe have maybe thirty yards and you 'd all those l sheaves y that was your bit . |
| 22 | It was believed someone from the Academy was helping Mann with the finance and distribution of the drugs . |
| 23 | Owen knew from the title that this was a member of the Egyptian Royal Family but which of the Khedive 's numerous progeny it was escaped him for the moment . |
| 24 | And you know she treasures it because it was given her by a grateful patient centuries ago . |
| 25 | That was totally unplanned. erm I was told by a friend that there was erm Pebble Mill were going to organise an Environment Project Competition for Great Britain , and they suggested I sent for a form , which I did , and filled it in , and erm to my astonishment a film crew came down and filmed the pond , and later on I was invited with my husband to Pebble Mill to get this award and it was given me by Virginia Mackenna and Bill Waters , and David Bellamy was there , and erm we had a wonderful time . |
| 26 | Oh it was bought it from the Christmas , two ninety nine from . |
| 27 | FOUR years after it was burned it to the ground in a disastrous fire , a Catholic church is rising from the ashes . |
| 28 | It was set which to er and it looked different . |
| 29 | Francis Carco , who was a friend who had bought Modigliani 's work before the crowd , also bought Modigliani 's paintings , but he was given them for what he himself described as a ridiculously cheap price . |
| 30 | Simon Evans was hooked on his gameboy from the minute he was given it as a present . |