Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [prep] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I thought I was under contract to Paul Lexington Productions . ’ |
| 2 | I told you all I was at liberty to and thought you had accepted it . ’ |
| 3 | But perhaps I was as oblivious at school as I was at home to the sneers or the impatience of others . |
| 4 | I had with the permission of the deputy general secretary leave of conference yesterday I was in London to be told of a further nine hundred redundancies from a company that a short time ago was telling us , and if you look at my report you 'll have to delete the first paragraph where they had secured orders and the security of our members ' employment only to be told yesterday , nine hundred will go . |
| 5 | Perhaps I was in thrall to an illusion , but to me Pottz looked natural , free , and potent . |
| 6 | On Wednesdays , as a tribute to Aunt Emily , she was at home to callers , and faithfully , once a week , she went to the Rectory and was a tiger for an hour in the jungle under the nursery table . |
| 7 | Yet when it came to a hulloa and a gallop and a death , she was on terms to the end . |
| 8 | She was in town to film Modesty Blaise for Joseph Losey . |
| 9 | I know it 's , I knew it was Needham Station and it was between station to station , you see , not er anything to do with the public but that 's where I learnt so we used to er take er messages from station to station and I used to speak to the girl at Merrith down the line . |
| 10 | By a notice of appeal dated 20 July 1992 the Official Solicitor appealed on the grounds , inter alia , that since the judge had found as facts that ( a ) T. had been able properly and fully to form a balanced judgment and had not been acting under undue influence but had been acting voluntarily , and ( b ) her several expressions withholding consent were valid refusals which bound the hospital , ( 1 ) he had erred in finding himself entitled to make the declaration ; ( 2 ) it had been wrong for him to assess T. 's subsequent intentions and to make assumptions as to whether she would have qualified or changed her refusal in the later circumstances ; and ( 3 ) he had erred in finding that ( a ) there was no evidence that T. had wished to refuse a blood transfusion even though it was at risk to her life , ( b ) lack of understanding of the risks involved justified acting against her expressed refusal , ( c ) her withholding of consent did not embrace the emergency which had arisen and took no account of changed circumstances , ( d ) her expressed refusals did not evince a settled intention to persist in her refusal even if injurious to her health when her best interests required a transfusion ; and ( e ) he was not satisfied that her refusal was continuing . |
| 11 | ( e ) There is , to put it negatively , no evidence that she did wish to persist in a refusal of a blood transfusion even if it was at risk to her life . |
| 12 | The group , who have an active Saturday club and a Monday Club for the blind and partly-sighted , has their mini-coach stolen when it was on loan to another charitable organisation , and they were left with a deficit of £5,500 when the insurance was settled . |
| 13 | the other point was obviously people that you may know which may be able to help me in my business , people you feel this information obviously it was of interest to you |
| 14 | I thought it was from generator to a pipe , couple of hand brakes in there . |
| 15 | Perhaps it was in deference to her sensibilities that he had slipped on a robe , but it did less to conceal the perfection of his body than to hint tantalisingly at it . |
| 16 | It was in attitudes to sex — and specifically male attitudes to women — that It began to argue with the outside world , and itself , almost from the beginning . |
| 17 | It was in response to that application that the committee yesterday published its findings , which must now be digested by the Law Society before it formally applies to the Lord Chancellor for extended rights of audience . |
| 18 | It was in response to the concern of NATO 's European members ( including Britain 's then Labour government ) over the declining capability of NATO 's existing intermediate-range forces . |
| 19 | Partly it was in response to the Black Workers ' Group and because Ahmed and I were both Black and lesbian/gay . |
| 20 | It was in response to these pressures , and more particularly its commitment to enhancing equality of opportunity and tackling the problem of underachievement , that the Inner London Education Authority ( ILEA ) set up a committee of enquiry chaired by David Hargreaves . |
| 21 | The underlying programme is indeed desperate — it was in response to the death of a beloved daughter — but the despair is the more powerfully expressed for being contained . |
| 22 | It was in response to this that the Scott Committee on Land Utilization in Rural Areas urged that agricultural use should have priority in any conflicts over rural land use . |
| 23 | Thus the Cubans identified a new aggression in Eisenhower 's attitude , and my hypothesis is that it was in response to these events that Castro decided to stake the survival of his revolution on enlisting the total support of the Soviet Union . |
| 24 | It was in response to what Lord Penzance called ‘ sensational cases of cruelty ’ that the first law giving working class wives an opportunity to sue for separation and maintenance was passed in 1878 . |
| 25 | He said it was in response to a coup . |
| 26 | It was in part to answer these questions that the California State Legislature in the Autumn of 1976 passed a law called the Natural Death Act . |
| 27 | Among these he claimed that LGCM , by displaying a flyer for the Gay Guide to London in the office , encouraged promiscuity ; that , by publishing a leaflet arguing for positive images in schools , it was promoting paedophilia ; and that , by advertising the GLC booklets entitled Changing the World and Tackling Heterosexism , it was in opposition to the criminal law of England ! |
| 28 | During the final months of the peace Ballot campaign it was becoming clear that Mussolini was preparing to invade Abyssinia , and it was in relation to this danger that the issue of sanctions was generally debated . |
| 29 | It was in relation to one of these , the Siberian Goldfield Development Company formed in May 1900 , that Hooley and his associate H. J. Lawson were charged in 1904 with fraudulent share promotion . |
| 30 | In Attorney General v Guardian Newspapers Ltd ( No 2 ) [ 1988 ] 2 WLR 805 at p873 , Lord Donaldson MR stated that at first instance Scott J had come to the conclusion that the duty to maintain confidentiality was not necessarily in all circumstances the same in relation to third parties who became possessed of confidential information as it was in relation to the primary confident . |