Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [prep] me [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was dropped on me out of the blue , I must admit this course |
| 2 | It was said to me recently , by a railway enthusiast , no less , that , when you have a car , the only cost in using it is the petrol . |
| 3 | In one shape or size this was said to me often in writing this book , and always by women and girls themselves . |
| 4 | My mother 's story on the other hand was told to me much earlier , in bits and pieces throughout the fifties , and it was n't delivered to entertain but rather to teach me lessons . |
| 5 | The first area is one that was raised by me rather than by counsel . |
| 6 | This overt intervention in our lives was experienced by me as entirely beneficent , so I find it difficult to match an analysis of the welfare policies of the late forties which calls " the post-war Labour government … the last and most glorious flowering of late Victorian liberal philanthropy " , 6 which I know to be correct , with the sense of self that those policies imparted . |
| 7 | Erm well I 've got a little cottage that was left to me up in erm North Wales that we rent out . |
| 8 | In schools where headteachers were responsive , the information which was passed to me often provided vital insights into a child 's difficulties . |
| 9 | It was put to me recently that a guitar 's country of origin is irrelevant when determining its overall quality in the market place . |
| 10 | It was put to me very forcibly by the junior doctors that unless they had the power to withdraw their labour , how else could they ‘ get their rights ’ ? |