Example sentences of "i was [verb] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last year I was invited to Wimbledon on the big day by ticket-holding members of the media . |
| 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 | ‘ MY MISSION IN ENGLAND COMPLETED , I WAS RECALLED TO WASHINGTON ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I realise that if I was to move to South Africa I would be living a completely different existence . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | G. Hare , D.S.C. , who takes up the story of the preparations : ‘ In mid April 1941 I was called to London for a secret verbal appointment and interviewed by Rear-Admiral Clement Moody , the Fifth Sea Lord ( he had been my Captain in ‘ Eagle ’ ) . |
| 9 | But when I turned up at the hospital they put me on call and I was called to Casualty to anaesthetise a man . |
| 10 | The day after returning to Vancouver I was called to Ira Dilworth 's office at five o'clock . |
| 11 | And anyway erm I first went to and the money ran out and so Grammar School , and then er I was transferred to PorthMadog County School where er Jonathan at that time was chairman of the board of governors . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The next day I was chatting to friends — Joy and Alan Byne . |
| 14 | ‘ I was chatting to Jack after lunch . ’ |
| 15 | I was moved to Martin , the most rowdy house in the prison . |
| 16 | For most of the 1970s while living in the Borders I was commuting to London by air for three nights a week to present late-night current affairs programmes — 24 Hours , Midweek , Tonight , Newsday . |
| 17 | ‘ After the Smiths I had been playing the guitar for a few years and I was listening to things like Aztec Camera and Orange Juice . |
| 18 | I was listening to music and he . |
| 19 | ‘ I started playing guitar when I was fourteen , ’ says Rowland , ‘ and I was listening to people like Roxy Music and David Bowie . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | That 's , I was , I was , I was listen I was listening to Neil Kinnock |
| 22 | I was listening to Mr , yes , thank you |
| 23 | He 'd been making some records but they were n't successful and for the first few weeks after I 'd met him and decided to work with him , I was listening to songs that he 'd written , and was in the process of writing , and came to the conclusion that he was not essentially a singles artist . |
| 24 | I was listening to Radio 5 and Leeds had had 3 good chances after 5 mins . |
| 25 | I was listening to radio 5 who had reports . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | A few moments later , balloon of armagnac in hand , I was listening to Dennis recount with great self-satisfaction how he 'd come by the priceless spirit , when our attention was drawn by the sound of running water from the kitchen . |
| 29 | Told me I was jumping to conclusions and weaving fantasies and all the rest of it . |
| 30 | On the strength of my boxing I was elected to Vincent 's , a club consisting of Blues and other notable athletes . |