Example sentences of "i [was/were] [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apparently Alice had told her that I were going to town with them |
| 2 | I was invited to lunch one day . |
| 3 | First of all I was invited to lunch in Leeds and they sent the helicopter for me , piloted by Captain John Leeson , who had done all the flying for the aerial shots in the film . |
| 4 | Today I was invited to tea at Lady Emily 's to meet Krishnaji . |
| 5 | But much latelier , in the private academies of Italy , wither I was favoured to resort , perceiving that some trifles which I had in memory , composed at under twenty or thereabouts , for the manner is that everyone must give some proof of his wit a reading there , met with acceptance above what was looked for , and other things which I had shifted in scarcity of books and conveniences to patch up amongst them , were received with written incomience which the Italian is not forward to bestow on men of this side the Alps . |
| 6 | But when I turned up at the hospital they put me on call and I was called to Casualty to anaesthetise a man . |
| 7 | After a month 's stay at UCH ( University College Hospital in Central London ) I was transferred to specialist cardiologist Dr Jane Sommerville at the then National Heart Hospital . |
| 8 | I was listening to music and he . |
| 9 | The other side of that is that I was listening to Medicine Now on Radio Four , and they 've got a device where they you actually have er an earpiece put into your ear and it clicks continuously . |
| 10 | I was listening to Radio 5 and Leeds had had 3 good chances after 5 mins . |
| 11 | I was listening to radio 5 who had reports . |
| 12 | Men , men , mentioned here by our friend , that Leicestershire has got no business to discuss about fox hunting , we are not elusive , there are other county councils who have banned fox hunting on their land , so do not make this as a sacrosanct and or something that Leicestershire are doing , they are not doing first , there are so many other county councils in this country and for your information , I was listening to radio four few days ago , even in Pakistan , a third world country , is banning hunting in their country , we should be ashamed of ourselves here to discuss , I agree with Councillor when the discussion start and he said move for the ward , because the logical thing was to move for the wards rather than discuss , if we all believe that this is horrible , acrimonious and abhorrent in today 's day and age , as the slavery was abhorred two hundred years ago . |
| 13 | Hello John erm firstly I would sympathise with those that erm have been complaining about television programmes , although I erm did n't watch a great deal of television yesterday , I was listening to Radio Oxford actually , but erm from erm Ceefax I noticed that the Neighbours was broadcast twice . |
| 14 | I was perfectly happy until I was sent to school at the age of five . |
| 15 | I was sent to school here , so I must learn as much as I can . ’ |
| 16 | Of course I was sent to bed without any supper . |
| 17 | In fact , I was sent to bed as a punishment . |
| 18 | The third offence , that was after the immigration problems , I was sent to prison . |
| 19 | I was sent to prison for five weeks . |
| 20 | He could have said with Hamlet , The Time is Out of Joint , and Cursed Spit that Ever I was Born to Set it Right . |
| 21 | ‘ I was delivering to industry and kept a constant look-out for a suitable material . |
| 22 | But when you loved it , did n't you I mean I know I did when I was a young person first drinking erm I definitely had the feeling that if I was drinking to excess I was n't doing the right thing , whereas the impression we give in Oxford that drinking to the excess is perfectly acceptable behaviour . |
| 23 | I was beginning to Cleaver for another drink in the Railway Hotel before returning home . |
| 24 | On that first day I had little thought to spare for Parma itself , but gradually I came to realize how fortunate I was to go to school in a city that was both beautiful and intensely interesting . |
| 25 | I never went to the extremes with heroin , but I was addicted to valium for seven years erm and I 've been clean from valium for four months erm through a drug programme in Brenda House |
| 26 | I 've thought about it , ’ said Nikos , ‘ but I was keeping to surveillance until I was told otherwise . ’ |
| 27 | The boss knew I was worked to death , and not wanting to lose me said , ‘ Mick , you take a few days rest . |
| 28 | well I was worked to death |
| 29 | I always wore clogs , and if an iron came off while I was cycling to town I could take it to him , go off somewhere like the pictures , and it would be ready and waiting for me straight afterwards . |
| 30 | Yet , in the back of my mind , as I was driven to reception , clutching my overnight bag , was the memory that a hospital had once been home . |