Example sentences of "was [verb] to [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And again as I say it 's rather a nice erm picture which erm er was given to me some time ago . |
| 2 | I got quite , I was given to it last year , I reckon |
| 3 | She tried to be a strength for her daughter , but was overwhelmed by the enormity of what was happening to them all . |
| 4 | So much , too much , was happening to him all at once . |
| 5 | These call-slips , as submitted , already contained much of the information required , but for the purposes of the Survey additional information was added to them both by the members of staff to whom they were submitted , and by fieldwork students from the College of Librarianship Wales who physically examined the requested items before their delivery to readers . |
| 6 | ‘ no steps were taken [ by the clerk ] to ensure that either of the defendants was aware of the nature or effect of the documents they were signing , and no suggestion was made to them that independent legal advice ought to be sought . |
| 7 | I think for example of the sensitivity of some of the small market towns , the point for example that was made to us last week about the sensitivity one settlement with which I 've come increasingly familiar over the last fortnight and that is town centre . |
| 8 | Do n't talk to it because it ma it sounds stu I was listening to us this morning . |
| 9 | He said I was to talk to you first . |
| 10 | The opportunity to do so did not arise until Racedown was offered to them six years later , by which time Wordsworth could contemplate a life whose course , since his Norfolk visit , had done much to shape his political and poetic character , and had left him with more than a little to repent . |
| 11 | She was speaking to us both . |
| 12 | Oh yes , they 're very , very clever so Doug was saying to me one day in work , walking dogs together in Wellington , he said I had this fellow yesterday , he just convinced a board that he did n't need any more treatment , he was cured erm , he would n't do any more |
| 13 | Is that what she was saying to you last night ? |
| 14 | It was later , in the boredom of those long , lonely evenings , that her resolve collapsed and , despite herself , she slipped back into the old habits of sniping at Marie , horrified at what she was doing to them both , yet unable , in her bitterness and isolation , to stop herself . |
| 15 | ‘ I was talking to him this morning , ’ he said . |
| 16 | ‘ I was talking to him this morning , ’ Richard said again , wondering why he could not control his shivering . |
| 17 | I was chatting to her one lunch-time and just happened to mention that I kept and bred barn owls . |
| 18 | The American captain of a supply ship was chatting to me one day and asked me where we were based . |
| 19 | I wanted to have Dana beside me as his coffin slid so smoothly into the flames and my mother clutched my arm , not daring to watch something she felt was horrible — and was to happen to her one day , at the new crematorium in Bath , high up in those verdant hills . |
| 20 | It was suggested to me that what happens in and around our church in May , the publicity it receives , and the many thousands of leaflets we distribute , all help to raise awareness of Christian Aid in Scotland . |