Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] to us [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in a reply to a letter from prospective Stockton South Labour MP John Scott , a senior ambulance officer says : ‘ The account was submitted not to the patient but to a relative whose name and address were given to us at the time of the booking . |
| 2 | Most of the submissions which were addressed to us by Mr. Persaud took matters no further . |
| 3 | It is almost as if they were lent to us for their infancy and formative years , and are then entirely free to go their own way . |
| 4 | Complaints were made to us about certain members of our staff ( who , incidentally , no longer work for us ) going into unoccupied floors to make love . |
| 5 | Constables know that all radio messages are taped and that the time they take to arrive at calls is recorded , which is often unnecessary , given the competition to beat other stations and colleagues by getting there first , although stories were told to us of instances where people were transferred for failing to respond to a call . |
| 6 | A wide selection of mustards were supplied to us by Arran Provisions , Colman 's and Burnham Mustards |
| 7 | This was of a different order from my imaginings about the Chinese communists , arch villains whose evil doings were retailed to us in the classroom with the same ferocious didacticism that accompanies the telling of a lurid fairy tale and enhances its horrifying fascination . |
| 8 | The first recorded observations of Castle Drachenfels , the accursed house of hell , were brought to us by Oskar Lefebvre and Jean-Pierre Lafontaine of the city of Quenelles in the year 184 ( Imperial Calendar ) . |
| 9 | If it were put to us in this way we might be less prone to think of it as imposing a vastly increased burden on the community . |
| 10 | If the hon. Gentleman wants to find a worse record in Scotland for waiting lists , he should look at the waiting lists that were left to us by the previous Labour Government . |
| 11 | It was found among a collection of magazines , news-sheets and leaflets which were sent to us by one of the researchers for our archives on feminism in the 20th century . |
| 12 | We love you because you were sent to us by Our Father . " |
| 13 | ‘ It was given to us by a descendant of Boutcher , who wants to remain anonymous . |
| 14 | It was given to us by Amnesty International and used with their full permission . |
| 15 | Remember , this task was given to us by you . |
| 16 | First of all I 'm surprised at the outburst that was given to us by Mr I would regard as my er yahabeebee and sadiki if you wish er , but he mentioned in fact the er , what used to be barbaric ac , barbaric er practice in er Pakistan . |
| 17 | Have some more chutney , it was given to us by our German daughter-in-law . |
| 18 | I felt that the news was broken to us in a very inhumane manner , but perhaps there is no way to sweeten the statement , and the sooner the news is conveyed the better for both the giver and receiver . |
| 19 | We had a lecture that afternoon in which the course and aim of our training was explained to us by Sergeant-Chef Gibeau , an angular Frenchman with a perfectly shaved head and a tendency to wear sunglasses in the rain . |
| 20 | In the end , and because Lord Hunter was presented to us as a man of independent judgement , we decided to do so , and advised Meehan to do the same . |
| 21 | She says it 's turning what was presented to us as a local bypass into a major through-way — motorway style — six lanes , elevated to 35 feet in places , lit all night slap through Oxford 's green belt . |
| 22 | The station was offered to us for the sum of £20,000 , but when we asked for a private valuation in the hope of securing a loan to purchase the site , the valuer valued the site at only £10,000 . |
| 23 | The picture in our feature was supplied to us by a manufacturer to illustrate a particular cot set and was not intended as a recommendation of how to put a baby down to sleep . |
| 24 | This was sold to us , please , this was sold to us on the basis that it was going to bring in the baddies and sort out the baddies , and we 'd all live happily ever after . |
| 25 | It was sold to us on a false premise . |
| 26 | Italian International was introduced to us by our Italian office . |
| 27 | Rule A five was brought to us by the amalgamation of the boilermakers , who themselves have tried to get rid of this bloody rule . |
| 28 | Simon Brown J. cited no authority for this dictum , so far as it related to the possibility of supervisory jurisdiction of the High Court over the visitors to the Inns of Court , but it was cited to us as an example of a suggested parallel with the supervisory jurisdiction which the High Court undoubtedly exercises in other contexts which in some respects may be thought to be comparable . |
| 29 | It was awarded to us by the Independent Television Commission after we submitted an unopposed bid for the franchise . |
| 30 | In the surrounding countryside farming continues in a way that is very little different from what was left to us by the Romans , though sunflowers have recently begun to replace some of the olive trees . |