Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [vb pp] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1968 my husband James Haynes-Dixon and I were offered a lease of Lamb House for seven years . |
| 2 | I would not want to change even if I were offered a British-sounding voice . |
| 3 | I was invited a year or so later to the Royal Garden Party held in honour of the Queen Mother 's eightieth birthday , so there I was off again to London with a film crew in attendance . |
| 4 | I was spoiled a little and I was happy . |
| 5 | In military terms , I was called a runner , and as I had no bicycle at that time , running was literally what I did ! |
| 6 | ‘ He 'd been called a wop and I was called a coon . |
| 7 | I was called a Scab . |
| 8 | I was called a Judas . |
| 9 | When I started playing with white men I was called a Nazi , a traitor and was told I would be put up against a wall and shot . |
| 10 | Yeah I was called a roamer find me . |
| 11 | ‘ I did n't have the most stamina in the world , I was called a lazy player but I could have played till midnight . |
| 12 | In 1987 I was elected a Fellow of the British Academy |
| 13 | I sometimes forget that it is the day of the year when I was made a bishop . |
| 14 | I never fail to remember on the day of the year when I was made a priest . |
| 15 | I was made a bit of a snob . |
| 16 | ‘ I was made a guinea pig , ’ he says , ‘ and being a guinea pig can hurt like hell . ’ |
| 17 | The plane lifted off but the weather did not and I was denied a view of Vatnajökull and the central plateau . |
| 18 | ‘ I wrote immediately , ’ she says , ‘ and a few days later I was sent a complaints form to fill in and return . ’ |
| 19 | When the product finally went onto the market , as the Agenda , I was sent a sample which was unusable . |
| 20 | Every day I was sent a secret report by the Chief of Police , and the next afternoon I was playing cards with Fritz when Sapt brought it in . |
| 21 | At the start of the season I was sent a parcel of goodies , courtesy of Middy Sales Director David Middleton . |
| 22 | Erm I was sent a booklet from the D S S asking for various financial details , with the instructions that if I did n't complete the booklet and send it back to them to the D S S , my benefits would stop . |
| 23 | I was born a reject , in the gutter ; was bred in the gutter ; and had learnt , very early on in life , to walk close to the gutter . |
| 24 | I would n't like to say I was born a naturalist , but I can remember collecting fossils when I was three . |
| 25 | I was born a rebel raver |
| 26 | I was born a Catholic , and I am going to die a Catholic . |
| 27 | I was born a Catholic and I ’ m going to die a Catholic . |
| 28 | I was born a rather scant seven months after the wedding . |
| 29 | ‘ You will remember that although I was born a vicar 's daughter , I have seen quite a different level of life since then . |
| 30 | I was born a poor black boy down in Mississippi , out in Alabama and he 's like a jet white ai n't he ? and he says I always felt different cos all the other kids they just sit there and they 'd be tapping their feet and then you go onto the oh and they 're getting the old rhythm going , like they do and he 'd be going like I all so different I could n't quite do this and he used to get in look , and er |