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Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] me [prep] " in BNC.

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1	Meanwhile , Denis and I provided the background music for this particular ‘ pack in the box ’ and much hissing was heard from me in the interval into the ear of our Company Manager Jeremy Adams .
2	I well remember a little cardigan from a High Street store that was given to me for my ( then ) six-month-old baby .
3	It was given to me as a present so I 'd feel funny about selling it myself , but you could maybe buy a pair of shoes for Sonja with it or something .
4	She said , ‘ You see , before the war , this was given to me as a present , and it was full of chocolates . ’
5	The watch was given to me as a surety by Meredith Putt , lord of Swinbrook Manor . ’
6	When she asks , you must on no account say that it went into the sea , because she will worry that it is a curse on you — or me as well , for it was given to me at my baptism .
7	‘ Being a hijra was the only possibility for me ; there was no other career I could have pursued with the body that was given to me at birth .
8	Another native wood melick , Melica uniflora , was given to me in its variegated form .
9	Mary said : ‘ Within 20 minutes of his birth he was given to me in a blanket , still covered in blood .
10	" When your mother was given to me in marriage , my father and hers entered an agreement , Sara .
11	This recipe was given to me by a well-travelled customer on her return from the USA .
12	‘ It was given to me by my grandmother , the lady Jacquetta , and has a curious history .
13	The passive is one such option in English ( cf. John gave me this book and This book was given to me by John , which are both unmarked ) .
14	There 's also a big , gold jewellery box that was given to me by my godmother .
15	It is not it was given to me by a nice gentleman from Napier College doing
16	‘ It was given to me by someone who feels deeply on the subject , ’ he said .
17	I 'm glad you mentioned that cos it was given to me by the wife of the steeplechase handicap a very important man today cos for more than
18	I refer to a parliamentary answer that was given to me by the Under-Secretary of State for Employment , the hon. Member for Mid-Worcestershire ( Mr. Forth ) .
19	But , we know that April was a low figure , we also know that July and August are low a figure which comes out from this graph and was given to me by the director yesterday , is a genuine average which is turning out to be between a hundred and a hundred and ten placements per month twelve hundred to fourteen hundred placements per year a thr over a three year average residency period three thousand six hundred to four thousand two hundred placements in residential care , where then is the real problem .
20	Your name was given to me by Liz Robertson , in connection with Bruce Harris 's visit , and as I have failed to contact you by ‘ phone I thought I would write .
21	TVH , as it is generally known , was typified for me by a man called Alf Mignot , who died in 1987 in his early sixties .
22	He was assigned to me as armourer and tail gunner .
23	‘ It was assigned to me by the press , a breed which in my experience cares little for such irrelevancies as accuracy . ’
24	Er it was explained to me on the phone .
25	The impact was so great that the effect of it was to remain with me in the months ahead and give me strength when I most needed it .
26	Diamond Head was leaping at me from the right .
27	However , the reverse of this experience was reported to me by a woman who lost her lover in a drowning accident .
28	It was designed for me by that spooky little twosome , the Emmanuels ’
29	The Sussex campus was shrinking below me into a collection of children 's play houses , then models , then crumbs , then fly droppings .
30	Tony Visconti : ‘ At that time , we had gone into the studio to record ‘ The Man Who Sold The World ’ , and the horrible thing that was happening to me as a producer , the nightmare of my life , was that David and Angela were becoming totally entwined and enraptured with each other .