Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [vb pp] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was fired some years after the War after an altercation with Hymie . |
| 2 | We knew the Germans were still sentimental about Christmas , and I was given several days leave . |
| 3 | I had an alarming reading for an Agatha Christie film where I was given several sheets of script to sight read without any logical link up in the scenes being read and no-one to read with , except an office assistant who could n't read dialogue . |
| 4 | I was occupied several evenings a week . |
| 5 | E actually yours made me think of a story that I was told many years ago on a coach trip over Dartmoor |
| 6 | ‘ The demonstrations were mostly started by first- and second-year students ’ , I was told several times , ‘ but the government are punishing the graduates . |
| 7 | ‘ You were given these mysteries , were n't you , Rachel ? ’ |
| 8 | She was lost all hands aboard . |
| 9 | Pat told of how , when she first started knitting , she was given some patterns . |
| 10 | Miss Bhutto is spitting fury , not just over the matter of the provincial assemblies , but also because she says that she was given fewer ministries in the caretaker government ( just under a quarter ) than she deserves . |
| 11 | Gertrude Jekyll had not been available to design the garden at The Tamarisks when Lutyens had been drawing up plans for the house , but she was shown these plans and her advice was sought . |
| 12 | ‘ He keeps hisself to hisself , ’ she was told several times , though Davyd , who always had superior knowledge , added ‘ cut him in half and you 'd find pure gold , all through . ’ |
| 13 | She was scrapped many years ago . |
| 14 | She was driven several miles to a secluded country spot and assaulted for an hour . |
| 15 | She was awarded many diplomas of merit and exhibited in London , Germany and America . |
| 16 | That 's where we were given these rosettes ; on the bus . |
| 17 | We were offered several locations at the Biennale and decided on a small space in the best location thirty-six square metres ( as opposed to fifty or ninety ) opposite Galerie Cailleux . |
| 18 | And we 've got to do something about it , we were promised these savings , there are n't any , it does n't look as if anybody 's working awfully hard to get them , and I 'd like to know why not , and what 's going on , and I 'm quite happy to support what Mr proposes , that we refer it all to budget review . |
| 19 | ‘ When that call was made we were told both players would be coming down and we did n't have to apply any new rules . |
| 20 | In the Gulf , in addition to the Kleenex , everywhere they went , no matter what time of day , they were given little cups of very strong coffee to drink . |
| 21 | Subjects heard sentences from four different sets , in random order , and after a distractor task , were given a forced-choice recognition test in which they were given both sentences they had originally heard and new sentences which were constructed either by combining information from within a set , or combining information from different sets . |
| 22 | He was absolutely right ; shocked a minute after training , most chicks showed amnesia and so pecked the bead when they were tested some hours later ; delay the shock to ten minutes after training and most chicks avoided it subsequently . |
| 23 | The workers must have felt important when they were described several times as being , ‘ Caesar 's heirs forever . ’ |
| 24 | It seems that the whole force has been under the direct comd of General Loehr , until contact with him was lost many days ago . " |
| 25 | It was situated several kilometres outside the city and sprawled across three hundred acres . |
| 26 | See Stewart v. Dunphy , 1980 S.L.T. ( Notes ) 93 in which it was decided such persons were guilty of an offence . |
| 27 | It was revealed many years later that Sid had not actually bought the winning ticket but had found it mysteriously floating in his half-time Bovril . |
| 28 | An Act of 1485 had already made hunting in disguise or by night a felony ; it was re-enacted several times so that Forest offenders could be prosecuted at Quarter Sessions or at Assizes . |
| 29 | It was hoped some aspects of traffic separation would be made mandatory , although he would not specify which . |
| 30 | Dr Bob Woodward and his brother John became interested in the pavement when it was uncovered some years ago . |