Example sentences of "[pron] was [vb pp] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My reply was , ‘ Oh , please promote me — I was fired last time ! ’ |
| 2 | I was made head girl there and captain of the senior hockey team . |
| 3 | You know , you 're sort of turning the abortion argument on it 's head , that er in an abortion you can say it 's my body , I have a right to decide , and this baby that dies is never going to be there to question that decision , but in this type of situation the baby 's going to be there and okay , you 'll get so many who will just accept their situation and wo n't question it , but you 're always going to get some , or even one who will say I want to know my origins , I want to why I was conceived this way , why I was born this way , why , I have two mothers , that maybe a surrogate mother and a natural mother ? |
| 4 | I was given two year option in the first place , so so |
| 5 | I saved on the knitted things by making all his little woollies myself and I was given six baby vests . |
| 6 | My job as a curate took mornings , afternoons and evenings , six days a week — I was given one day off — so there was no time to get fit by walking . |
| 7 | Here I was given one piece of advice : ‘ For you , the simplest is the best . ’ |
| 8 | The targets I was given last year in my appraisal were n't covered at all this year in my appraisal by the manager , |
| 9 | I was given some advice about you — advice which I took against my better judgement , but it seems that advice was wrong . " |
| 10 | After that , Mr Dance went away and I was given some food . |
| 11 | erm the minor awards or discretionary awards as they became and that 's erm , I was given this job and er that 's how it 's built up really over the years . |
| 12 | I got my just desserts from Dad , which made my Mom cry more than me , but all in all I was given enough love and affection to cushion me against all the hardships that were to come . |
| 13 | After another term , I was given more art , and my class-room became an unofficial art room , much to the distress of the caretaker , who accused me of having the dirtiest class-room in the school ! |
| 14 | I feel I could score more goals in Italy if I was given more freedom . |
| 15 | One only has to look at the Shropshire structure plan in which I was involved last year , and the Department of the Environment in that case had allowed the facility for new settlement without locational criteria . |
| 16 | And there it was , it struck me that I had nothing to lose , I was damned either way . |
| 17 | But you see , the Reverend has a distant relative whom he means to put in my place and so I was granted sick leave over the holiday in order that his dear Jonathan could come and assist him with the Christmas services . |
| 18 | You know , you 're sort of turning the abortion argument on it 's head , that er in an abortion you can say it 's my body , I have a right to decide , and this baby that dies is never going to be there to question that decision , but in this type of situation the baby 's going to be there and okay , you 'll get so many who will just accept their situation and wo n't question it , but you 're always going to get some , or even one who will say I want to know my origins , I want to why I was conceived this way , why I was born this way , why , I have two mothers , that maybe a surrogate mother and a natural mother ? |
| 19 | On retirement from the Army & Navy Stores I was appointed managing director of Hatchards , Piccadilly , and Miss Riley came as my secretary and continued there in a full or part time capacity for many years . |
| 20 | At the age of 34 I was appointed Chief Executive of Warwickshire County Council , an organisation with 16,000 staff and a budget of £250 million . |
| 21 | Twice I 've picked up goods on a shelf marked reduced and then found , because of the bar codes , I was charged full price at the pay-out desk . |
| 22 | I was asked that question by Mr erm prior to the production of the first brochure with that statement in it |
| 23 | And I was asked this week if it is possible to make up your own , rather than buy one of these metal affairs on wheels . |
| 24 | On the following morning , when I was attending another committee of the Cabinet , I was handed another message that the Prime Minister wished to see me … . |
| 25 | ‘ I was approached last year by Lawrence Barnett [ chairman ] to sort things out . |
| 26 | While in Ceylon we visited Allied Headquarters in Kandy , where I was taken one afternoon by Colonel Christian into the ‘ War Room ’ to hear the reports received during the last twenty-four hours , and a commentary on them by a senior staff officer . |
| 27 | I was paid good money for 3½ years to do something about the problems of North Shields and a particular component of doing something was describing what things were like , giving an account of how they had come to be like this , and attempting to understand why the process had happened as it had . |
| 28 | A. T. I was reported one day . |
| 29 | The show was given before an invited audience of some 1,200 music fans each week , and as a visiting newspaperman I was afforded special treatment . |
| 30 | I was offered post-natal support having been to some NCT ante-natal classes . |