Example sentences of "it [was/were] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was n't until I heard Dennis say , ‘ I 'll just fetch up another bottle of the Hunter Valley ’ that it was borne in on me that the woman who was frenching me and bringing herself off on my belt buckle was none other than Karen Parsons , the wife of Dennis Parsons , who was currently six feet away on the other side of the dining-room door and closing rapidly . |
| 2 | ‘ The more I saw of … the doings of an official generation slightly older than my own ’ , he writes , ‘ the more it was borne in upon me that the genuine image of the diplomatic process is hardly to be recaptured in historical narrative unless the lens through which it is viewed is a sharp one and the human texture of which it consists becomes visible in considerable detail . ’ |
| 3 | Then about four days later it was pointed out to me that a real earthquake actually hit Germany last week , and she was n't being poetic at all , and I actually felt cheated of the wave of emotion I had felt towards her . |
| 4 | I remember that it was pointed out to me by Jonathan Miller , bless his heart , that ‘ I have the right to change my mind ’ , and that 's true . |
| 5 | More recently ( and more light-heartedly ) it was pointed out to me after a lecture in England , that my ideas on the stratigraphical column were essentially Marxist in ideology . |
| 6 | For example , it was pointed out to me that some teachers were making lesson notes for the first time in years ! |
| 7 | I did n't make up my mind , it was made up for me . |
| 8 | Cos Michael started it , he said we 're never said anything when we set off in the car , and then he said that he 'd had this fax from me and er Andrew said , well it was n't actually from , er , from me to the , it was fetched up to me and I sent it in the office . |
| 9 | It was passed on to me , as your commanding officer , to take whatever steps I felt necessary . |
| 10 | And when I When it was opened out for me going to Deerness , well that was a great event . |
| 11 | It was spelled out to me what was happening and why . |