Example sentences of "[pron] was [vb pp] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was in April when we arrived and I was invited to join branch members in the Anzac Day Parade in Adelaide . |
| 2 | I was invited to open functions in various parts of the Yorkshire Dales and quite a surprising number of people turned up . |
| 3 | Some 36 years later I was invited to become Patron of Vliegclub Grimbergen , which honour I took very seriously and when my Belgian friends told me of the threatened closure of this , one of the busiest of Belgium 's general aviation airfields , I could see no obvious reason for closure , other than what only seemed to me to be political bias . |
| 4 | In the evening I was invited to have dinner with a citizen of the city , whose son is a student of . |
| 5 | This acquisition of special knowledge meant that when I was called to give evidence to the Advisory Council on Drug Abuse ( chaired by Baroness Wooton ) on the use of cannabis , I was perhaps more inclined to dwell on the symbolic dangers attributed to its use than on any alleged physical harm , simply because I was now aware that any reality in relation to cannabis use was more complex than could be contained in some easy binary of social value — medical debilitation . |
| 6 | In the latter part of 1943 I was appointed Archdeacon of Rangoon , in which capacity I was enabled to visit groups of Anglo-Burman Anglicans and others who had settled in various Indian centres . |
| 7 | In November nineteen eighty-six , I was elected to succeed Peter Jay as Chairman of N C V O. This year , the call of other duties compel me to step down . |
| 8 | As a former Rover Triumph/Leyland/BL/Austin Rover/Rover man , I was heartened to see Kevin Morley is continuing the best traditions of the company with his new venture . |
| 9 | When I was assigned to investigate Ruggiero 's kidnapping , Pietro made a statement to the press drawing attention to my lack of experience and my political views and demanding that I be replaced immediately . |
| 10 | but er if they come back and say look I was gone to get change . |
| 11 | ‘ I was determined to have time with Maisie . ’ |
| 12 | I knew he was trying to rile me , but I was determined to keep calm . |
| 13 | I was determined to keep control and do as much as I could to help things on . |
| 14 | Walking during this heatwave was bound to be warm work and I was determined to avoid sandwiches of chalk and modelling clay . |
| 15 | About two years ago the playgroup leader left and I was asked to take charge . |
| 16 | But I I wrote in and I was asked to see Mr . |
| 17 | Shortly before the expiration of my first term at the Housing Corporation in 1976 , I was asked to see Tony Crosland , then the Secretary of State for the Environment . |
| 18 | Recently , at a lively event at Centreprise , a community literature venue in Hackney , East London , I was asked to define Blackwomen 's Creativity . |
| 19 | The post was much too risky , so sometimes I was asked to carry funds to Parma on my bicycle . |
| 20 | ‘ I was asked to supervise canoeing when a scout leader , so I went off to master the sport and was a senior instructor after a couple of years . |
| 21 | The whole story is that I was asked to ride Docklands Express , Cool Ground , Auntie Dot and Bonanza Boy in home gallops for the television cameras and then to compare the quartet . |
| 22 | When I said in Committee that we had no intention of establishing a funding council in April 1993 , I was asked to provide power to enable a future Secretary of State to do so . |
| 23 | I was taken to meet Gabellah , the African National Council leader , on his return from talks with Kaunda and exiled Rhodesian leaders across the border . |
| 24 | I also recognised that I was expected to take responsibility for the interpretation of the utterance , exploring a wide range of contextual assumptions ( about hospitals , illness , operations , and convalescence ) and deriving a wide range of contextual implications — not only a wider range than I would have derived had the newsreader just produced [ 14b ] , but a wider range than I would have derived if I had realised that the speaker was talking about the pound . |
| 25 | I found I was expected to make progress , entailing fast driving within the speed limits on all roads . |
| 26 | The short answer was that when I was working as inspector of taxes I used to give these talks , I was required to give talks . |
| 27 | Payton said : ‘ I was bought to score goals and some people could probably say I have been a flop . |
| 28 | All that day and all the next day , I was doomed to draw Mickey Mouse again and again . |
| 29 | Anyway , I was told to accompany David on the Express if I could get a visa and off I went to Washington DC to apply for one and they told me absolutely not — I could n't have one — go away . |
| 30 | I was told to keep mum about it . ’ |