Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [verb] [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Through the communicating voice tube I was invited up to the bridge . |
| 2 | Three weeks ago I was invited down to a meeting of water workers . |
| 3 | She was hard at work in her jealously private workshop , though she called in briefly at the library from time to time , and I was invited back to the Lodge for meals some evenings . |
| 4 | I was invited back to Clandeboye after the game by some other friendly Bangor folk . |
| 5 | Last weekend I was invited out to Sunday lunch by the young teacher who is involved in organizing this course . |
| 6 | A week later I was called back to Downing Street by Margaret Thatcher and told that I was taking over the Department of Health and Social Security and also the question-and-answer session . |
| 7 | It happened that I was called back to the farm on the following Thursday to " cleanse " a cow and was in the byre when Dodson the drover called to pick up Blossom . |
| 8 | As an example close to home , it would be a sanction much more powerful than an SEC if , as head of audit of my firm , I was called in to that panel to be told that if my firm wanted the institutional shareholders to vote their proxies in favour of our being reappointed auditors to this or that company , we would have to mend our ways in some respect . |
| 9 | Hello there , erm I was calling in to sort of object to the erm whole presentation of recent events in the , in the Soviet Union . |
| 10 | It was a relief when I was moved on to the Sports Desk ; these were gains and losses of a different kind and they did n't involve people getting killed . |
| 11 | And , I was prattling on to your dad , saying when we claimed it back when we claimed it back we 'll bring it early but |
| 12 | In writing the book I was jumping on to something of a bandwagon . |
| 13 | He said : ‘ I was made out to be the bad guy . |
| 14 | In his account of the final stage , it is as if the unheard melody of which he had some intimation suddenly becomes audible and transposes all his experience into its terms : In my prayer I was reaching out to heaven with heartfelt longing when I became aware , in a way I can not explain , of a symphony of song , and in myself I sensed a corresponding harmony at once wholly delectable and heavenly , which persisted in my mind . |
| 15 | I associated the whole family thing with being older and I was holding on to my youth . |
| 16 | I was so cold today , yeah , I got a , I filled up that kettle and I boiled it and I got , I was holding on to it and I fell backwards on to my bed and I burnt myself |
| 17 | This day I was motored over to Burghclere to see Stanley Spencer 's mural paintings which he is now working on in the Memorial Chapel built for the plans of the pictures he has in mind . |
| 18 | It was eighty six when I was sent up to with it . |
| 19 | At the Friarage the doctor came at 5am to install a temporary pacemaker and I was sent up to Newcastle by ambulance with a doctor , a nurse and a paramedic . |
| 20 | ‘ For a while — until I was sent back to Arrancay . ’ |
| 21 | After joining the AIB in July 1955 and doing my first investigation on an Auster that had ditched in the Bristol Channel in August of that year , I was sent out to Tripoli , Libya in September 1955 to assist Penny Garnons-Williams ( known to many in the aviation industry as Garney Bill ) to investigate an accident to a BOAC Argonaut that had crashed at Castel Benito in a sand storm . |
| 22 | We presented these twelve names , er , to the board of Pearsons erm , the board selected three er , we kept one in reserve and I was sent out to America by the board to see , er , the two , er , leading candidates . |
| 23 | A few days ago when I was hooked up to a foetal monitor , a midwife rushed in , not to ask how I was , but to see if I knew the latest on the war . |
| 24 | My posting came through and I was posted to Swordstone this side of Norwich , so I was still quids in , I could get home once a week , twenty four hour pass and then erm after a while erm , having served at Regiment , I was posted up to , as the Sergeant Artillery Clerk with the Brigade , an ack-ack brigade up at Coventry , just outside Coventry and then of course the A T S were coming in , were coming in in quite large numbers then and they were replacing male personnel and then I was posted abroad and I went to Egypt where I was there again , fortunate enough , I suppose , to go into the echelon , the second echelon which was the Records Office of all the forces or the armoured personnel in the Middle East and I worked there until I was actually demobbed from there but I was out in Egypt there for two , just over two years , came back to Northampton where I was finally demobbed and allowed to come home and as I said I came home one week and I was back at work the next . |
| 25 | Gerald Bellamy was posted to the squadron , having previously served with 3 A.A.C.U. He recalls : ‘ I was posted off to Takali and given cockpit drill in a Hurricane . |
| 26 | For this print , I was thinking back to the patterns of light and shade created by strong sunlight . ’ |
| 27 | We were always hidden away somewhere , I was packed off to various boarding-schools , he gave us piles of money , he just did n't want to see us ! |
| 28 | ‘ This time an X-ray revealed the damage and I was packed off to hospital for surgery . ’ |
| 29 | We 'd had a huge rally of 10,000 people for Ronald Reagan at the Southern Methodist University in Dallas and I was flying on to Los Angeles with one of the co-ordinators the next morning . |
| 30 | I had reached the letter " C " and as the word " Castration " looked up at me from the page I was jerked back to Rory . |