Example sentences of "[pron] was [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is until I was invited with Lawrance Collingwood to the Wigmore Hall and heard Peter perform Les Illuminations [ May IS 1943 ] . |
| 2 | Last year I was invited to Wimbledon on the big day by ticket-holding members of the media . |
| 3 | I was invited to lunch one day . |
| 4 | First of all I was invited to lunch in Leeds and they sent the helicopter for me , piloted by Captain John Leeson , who had done all the flying for the aerial shots in the film . |
| 5 | Today I was invited to tea at Lady Emily 's to meet Krishnaji . |
| 6 | Many years and many visits later I was invited by Tim Littler to become the official wheel tapper for his exotic Orient Express voyages to Champagne being launched in August this year . |
| 7 | I was operating in the dark ; I was deprived of intelligence . |
| 8 | ‘ MY MISSION IN ENGLAND COMPLETED , I WAS RECALLED TO WASHINGTON ’ |
| 9 | ( Finished March 11th ) I was covered with debris . |
| 10 | I was covered in blood ; my clothes were torn ; I was completely exhausted . |
| 11 | ‘ When I looked up I was covered in blood . |
| 12 | ‘ I said , ‘ My God ! ’ , and he said , ‘ What 's happened to you ? ’ because I was covered in blood , too . |
| 13 | By morning , I was covered in bites from a number of loathsome insects who fed better than I did . |
| 14 | ‘ I realise that if I was to move to South Africa I would be living a completely different existence . |
| 15 | But much latelier , in the private academies of Italy , wither I was favoured to resort , perceiving that some trifles which I had in memory , composed at under twenty or thereabouts , for the manner is that everyone must give some proof of his wit a reading there , met with acceptance above what was looked for , and other things which I had shifted in scarcity of books and conveniences to patch up amongst them , were received with written incomience which the Italian is not forward to bestow on men of this side the Alps . |
| 16 | Kay was the name that I was called at home , my middle name , one of my father 's names , and I knew that Kay , the boy in The Snow Queen , was me , who had a lump of ice in her heart . |
| 17 | G. Hare , D.S.C. , who takes up the story of the preparations : ‘ In mid April 1941 I was called to London for a secret verbal appointment and interviewed by Rear-Admiral Clement Moody , the Fifth Sea Lord ( he had been my Captain in ‘ Eagle ’ ) . |
| 18 | But when I turned up at the hospital they put me on call and I was called to Casualty to anaesthetise a man . |
| 19 | The day after returning to Vancouver I was called to Ira Dilworth 's office at five o'clock . |
| 20 | Like your son , I was called after St Francis . ’ |
| 21 | Towards the end of my last year I was called by Bishop Knight and asked where I would like to serve . |
| 22 | But he seemed to think because you 'd had your stroke almost a year ago that I should be over it ; his exact words were that I was looking for sympathy . |
| 23 | Well , he said he was a writer , and I said I was looking for plays to invest in and why did n't he write one about his friend , and a couple of months later he 'd written something pretty splendid , had n't he ? |
| 24 | I was looking for signs afterwards . |
| 25 | We were living here and there , and I was looking for investors , so we gave a care-of-Cook 's address . |
| 26 | I was looking for Kit-Kat but they did n't have any . |
| 27 | At first I found this rather frustrating , since I was looking for answers . |
| 28 | I was looking for drugs and walking over the aerosol cans . |
| 29 | ‘ I was n't really looking for you , I was looking for Ronni . ’ |
| 30 | I was looking for space for something , I 've forgotten what it wa Oh I had a big spreadsheet |