Example sentences of "was [verb] to we [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was given to us by a descendant of Boutcher , who wants to remain anonymous . |
| 2 | It was given to us by Amnesty International and used with their full permission . |
| 3 | Remember , this task was given to us by you . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Have some more chutney , it was given to us by our German daughter-in-law . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It was sold to us on a false premise . |
| 14 | Italian International was introduced to us by our Italian office . |
| 15 | Rule A five was brought to us by the amalgamation of the boilermakers , who themselves have tried to get rid of this bloody rule . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It was awarded to us by the Independent Television Commission after we submitted an unopposed bid for the franchise . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Round about midnight our supper was delivered to us from the cookhouse in a thing called a ‘ haybox ’ . |
| 20 | Our first challenge was put to us by Father Peter and Phil , the youth volunteer . |
| 21 | Whoever was talking to us from Over Yonder , however , knew all the words . |
| 22 | I think in Britain we were all rather amazed at how much solidarity was extended to us from Europe . |
| 23 | The Führer was sent to us from God , though not in order to save Germany , but to ruin it . |
| 24 | It was described to us by an experienced wildlife film-maker , Alastair MacEwen , who was filming house martins with a high speed camera . |