Example sentences of "[pron] was [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was destined for great things — Oxford or Cambridge , a string of letters after my name , a successful academic career , and would no doubt end up being the first woman Prime Minister . |
| 2 | I was led into all these commitments in a very friendly and deferential spirit , and in a similar spirit of friendship and hospitality I was invited to numerous social engagements , from impressive lunch in honour of the Minister of Education to an invitation to a private home in Jaipur , where my kind host and hostess had gone to the trouble of preparing sandwiches , cake , chips ( without the fish ) and pudding , in case I should not like the Indian dishes served for the other guests ! |
| 3 | I was invited by two revolutionary movements , the Black Panthers and the Palestinians … . these two groups have a very strong erotic charge . |
| 4 | I then went on to an Orion double bed , followed by a pink Passap ; I still wanted a single bed for speed — we ran a guest house and I was deprived of all knitting during the summer months . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , come to think of it , I was detained on urgent business with a Catholic . |
| 6 | Therefore I was bound by certain of its manners and rules . |
| 7 | I am not exaggerating when I say that I was inspired by all I saw at the adult education centres in Croydon . |
| 8 | I was able to recall perfectly quite long sequences of words even when I was exposed to each for little more than twenty milliseconds . |
| 9 | The Arts : How I was exposed in 3½ hours |
| 10 | I was sentenced to two years in prison . |
| 11 | I was charged in that name , I was sentenced in that name . ’ |
| 12 | As a result of a chance meeting in a Blackpool bar with a student journalist , I was featured in National Student in an article about disabled students . |
| 13 | At an earlier stage in my career I was transferred from one division of ICI to a new one . |
| 14 | I was transferred from one office to another before being shown into an office whose occupant was asleep in an armchair by the window . |
| 15 | ‘ I went to a tavern in Inverkeithing where I was joined by one of the King 's squires . ’ |
| 16 | No excitement in my life has ever quite equalled the tense fifteen minutes during which I was connected to that fish . |
| 17 | No that 's alright then and er I , I got into , I came , came back sort of when mother died , had to come back suddenly in the middle of the week and then erm I brought me family up as I say and , and my hubby he took , he took us Christmas shopping which is twenty one years ago this , this month the sixteenth my daughter-in-law and I and the little boy and that 's the little boy over there that 's now married , the one with the photograph , he took us shopping at Bishop 's Stortford cos we had n't any shops nothing here then , there was nothing when I first came here it was terrible and we went to Bishop 's Stortford and we came home in the , dinner time and I got erm , had our dinner and everything , had our meal , well we had soup and that was gon na cook at night , er you know , dinner at night so we had soup and that and erm he said I go down to the garage to put a tyre on my car , he came struggling back and within half an hour he was dead at fifty six years old that 's all he was , so I was left to bring up those that was n't married , I was left to bring up er the others you know , er I had the twins with me and Roy one of the boys and erm , er Brian the youngest one and I had to bring them up and I , after I , they , they all got married and I moved , before they got married I just got Brian with me the two twins got married , and I moved into my daughter-in-law 's house next door which was no two , seven , five the other side , I 'm sorry , two , seven , five and er I was in my house though three years that four bedroom and I could n't afford to keep you know big house like that going with just three , my , me and my son so we moved into her house and she had the end one which is still in now , we 'd done a swap and then cos er , er in the later years I was in there oh a long , long while and I loved it and I did n't wan na move but then I found , I was handicapped , I would n't get up the stairs to the toilet so I was moved into this bungalow you see and I had a friend living with me and he erm , he come here to live with me , came to lodge with me because he did n't want to go into Stevenage you see and er , after that erm , after that we , I had this bungalow and er I moved into this bungalow and er he moved in here with me and er everything happened when I got in this bungalow . |
| 18 | This topic remained part of my responsibilities until the middle of 1990 when I was moved to one of the RAF information technology strategy studies . |
| 19 | The worst thing that happened to me was that I was moved to another hut on the Waaf site and found myself amongst a very superior set of girls who worked in Radar . |
| 20 | I was moved to another hostel which was worse . |
| 21 | About two weeks after my first visit to the capital , I was visited by one of the King 's most important officials . |
| 22 | Jane Hinton-Clifton , who runs the college in Duke Street , said : ‘ I was visited by two officials of the North Yorkshire TEC who told me our funding was being cut off . |
| 23 | He has always been aware of his spiritual nature : ‘ When I was seven I was visited by 40 judged — beings of light — who spoke to me about my role here . |
| 24 | I was compensated to some extent by the magnificent scenery . |
| 25 | Sandy , at three in the morning , watching Boy : ‘ If I was built like that I would n't wait until three o'clock to take my shirt off . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I was reared with these people and I would n't completely ignore them . |
| 27 | I was kidnapped for ten days . |
| 28 | I was elected for two years running onto the NUS Lesbian and Gay Committee and served for one year on the London Students ' Organization executive committee . |
| 29 | Since well before I was elected to this House , I have pressed for the provision of secure accommodation to end the scandal of young offenders and remand prisoners in particular being held in prison accommodation . |
| 30 | I was challenged about that — I do not know why , as I thought that the position was clear . |