Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , last year , we were given it for free , erm |
| 2 | What we had was basically method things where we were given lots of experimental things we would do in the laboratory , but no real philosophy behind it , no sod of follow through . |
| 3 | One hundred and fifty nine subjects ( 88% ) were visited one to three times per week by the district nursing service . |
| 4 | Inhabitants of Pripyat , the town nearest to the reactor , were told nothing for 36 hours , and not tested for signs of radiation sickness until much later . |
| 5 | ‘ Ratepayers were told nothing about this before , yet they will be having to foot the bill . |
| 6 | For example Alec Hume 's memoirs were described them as this little book about fishing , a beautiful evocation of a countryman in Downing Street who would always rather have been with his fly on the river Tweed on the Scottish Borders . |
| 7 | I knew this to be true and believed firmly that when the word was given me in 1986 it would be fulfilled some time in the future . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm surprised he was given it at all , really . |
| 9 | He stayed the week and was given lots of extra training , but he was still unsafe when he returned to the USA . |
| 10 | Another solution to the problem of gaining height was told me by one of my respondents , who dreamed of climbing a high flagpole . |
| 11 | The ASW was asked which of these were considered applicable to the assessed individual . |
| 12 | Any new insolvent debtor 's bill was rejected one after another . |
| 13 | But this list was denied him in other areas and he then used school lists , projecting forward for the people who had left school ; but this had many errors and losses , with people moving home . |