Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sat up and she was kneeling beside me , picking at herself disgustedly , trying to get rid of the fungi and moulds . |
| 2 | His other tactic was to agree with me and then stand well back from whatever foolish project I 'd come up with . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She said , ‘ You see , before the war , this was given to me as a present , and it was full of chocolates . ’ |
| 6 | This recipe was given to me by a well-travelled customer on her return from the USA . |
| 7 | I have been talking to the whites many years about the lands in question , and it is strange they can not understand me ; the country they claim belonged to my father , and when he died it was given to me and my people , and I will not leave it until I am compelled to . |
| 8 | was given to me to cuddle and suckle straight away . |
| 9 | Another native wood melick , Melica uniflora , was given to me in its variegated form . |
| 10 | ‘ It was given to me by my grandmother , the lady Jacquetta , and has a curious history . |
| 11 | Mary said : ‘ Within 20 minutes of his birth he was given to me in a blanket , still covered in blood . |
| 12 | I well remember a little cardigan from a High Street store that was given to me for my ( then ) six-month-old baby . |
| 13 | " When your mother was given to me in marriage , my father and hers entered an agreement , Sara . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | It was given to me when I was twenty one . ’ |
| 17 | There 's also a big , gold jewellery box that was given to me by my godmother . |
| 18 | On your table er you were given a copy of the draft , the English draft of the charter er which I 've had a look at , it was given to me |
| 19 | It is not it was given to me by a nice gentleman from Napier College doing |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ It was given to me by someone who feels deeply on the subject , ’ he said . |
| 22 | 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 |
| 23 | The watch was given to me as a surety by Meredith Putt , lord of Swinbrook Manor . ’ |
| 24 | 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 ) . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | And again as I say it 's rather a nice erm picture which erm er was given to me some time ago . |
| 28 | I wo n't read it all out , but it was given to me before I went into the Air Force . |
| 29 | He was six one honestly he was to his mates , a right con and all this it was hanging over me and he 's a lorry driver . |
| 30 | TVH , as it is generally known , was typified for me by a man called Alf Mignot , who died in 1987 in his early sixties . |