Example sentences of "was [vb pp] to me [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I well remember a little cardigan from a High Street store that was given to me for my ( then ) six-month-old baby . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She said , ‘ You see , before the war , this was given to me as a present , and it was full of chocolates . ’ |
| 4 | The watch was given to me as a surety by Meredith Putt , lord of Swinbrook Manor . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | Another native wood melick , Melica uniflora , was given to me in its variegated form . |
| 8 | Mary said : ‘ Within 20 minutes of his birth he was given to me in a blanket , still covered in blood . |
| 9 | " When your mother was given to me in marriage , my father and hers entered an agreement , Sara . |
| 10 | This recipe was given to me by a well-travelled customer on her return from the USA . |
| 11 | ‘ It was given to me by my grandmother , the lady Jacquetta , and has a curious history . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | There 's also a big , gold jewellery box that was given to me by my godmother . |
| 14 | It is not it was given to me by a nice gentleman from Napier College doing |
| 15 | ‘ It was given to me by someone who feels deeply on the subject , ’ he said . |
| 16 | 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 |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He was assigned to me as armourer and tail gunner . |
| 21 | ‘ It was assigned to me by the press , a breed which in my experience cares little for such irrelevancies as accuracy . ’ |
| 22 | Er it was explained to me on the phone . |
| 23 | However , the reverse of this experience was reported to me by a woman who lost her lover in a drowning accident . |
| 24 | The request which was made to me in Committee was to bring forward amendments to enable the Secretary of State to set up a funding council , on the clear understanding that no commitment was being given that we would wish to do such a thing . |
| 25 | One such instance was related to me by Mr David Charles , of the Charles and Redding Company , who visited Darlington Hall from time to time during Lord Darlington 's days . |
| 26 | What occurred after I left was related to me by the men of the village , when I paid the district a second visit some months later . |
| 27 | A recent story , quite unexplained , was related to me by Mr G. Leslie who is employed by British Rail in the London area . |
| 28 | She lived at New Houses , and was related to me in a mixed up kind of way — her father and my grandmother were cousins , but what that made me to Miss Bayles I can not imagine ! |
| 29 | MUCH OF THE INTERIOR OF MY FATE AND THAT OF JEAN-Claude 's was revealed to me in the opaque , vaporous interior of la Sologne . |
| 30 | The above account was written to me in a long , beautifully typed letter . |