Example sentences of "[adv] i [be] [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually I was drawn to a sign in the Norwich and Peterborough Building Society advertising 11.3 per cent . ’ |
| 2 | He asked me a lot of suspicious questions , and eventually I was shown to what must have been the poorest room in his house , over the kitchen , facing a hen-run . |
| 3 | Eventually as the rapids calm down I 'm swept to the river bank , exhausted , shaking , but mercifully only a little battered . |
| 4 | Perhaps I was sent to the chippie , or café up the street to fetch cigarettes , or lemonade , or to go at full haste and deliver a note to one of his girl-friends ; or maybe he simply wanted to chastise me for something I had done , as for instance when I inadvertently got him into hot water by mentioning to Mum that I had seen him with a girl ( an infamous young woman ) after he had faithfully promised not to see her again , ever . |
| 5 | And so I am pasted to this leaning morass , observing the simplest of equations . |
| 6 | So I 'm bound to be recognised . |
| 7 | Erm I had expressed a preference for the Navy , so I was sent to Plymouth , to join the Devonshire regiment , at Mill Bay docks , which was a an infantry regiment and machine gun core regiment . |
| 8 | And so I was left to live alone with my aunt . |
| 9 | However , due to a lack of refinements such as a truss rod , the neck was so warped that I could n't put any frets on it , and so I was introduced to the world of fretless bass at an early age … ’ |
| 10 | So I was introduced to Percy Bysshe Shelley . |
| 11 | The magistrate did not consider a barrack changing-room to be a proper address , and so I was ordered to be confined in a bail hostel in Camden Town while social reports were completed . |
| 12 | So I was taken to hospital and I was in hospital two years . |
| 13 | Before long I was promoted to sewing seams , and woe betide me if a stitch showed on the face of the cloth . |
| 14 | The winger said : ‘ When I cut inside I was forced to the left . |
| 15 | Finally I was sent to a neurological specialist who said it would be necessary to examine the top half of my spinal cord , which houses the motor for the body 's muscles . |
| 16 | He could have said with Hamlet , The Time is Out of Joint , and Cursed Spit that Ever I was Born to Set it Right . |
| 17 | Earlier this summer he similarly told the Observer 's Mark Frankland ‘ The more I am forced to be active in politics , the more I enjoy doing theatre . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ It seemed quite pointless to hope once I was sent to the farm . |
| 19 | About an hour later I was taken to the railway station in a closed van by another N.C.O. and a soldier with a rifle . |
| 20 | ‘ I walked away and put things on hold for a couple of years but now I am committed to getting that shirt , ’ he added . |
| 21 | I was still taking the heroin and now I 'm addicted to Valium as well . |
| 22 | Now I 'm known to the police as a ‘ common prostitute ’ — why ‘ common ’ I do n't know . |
| 23 | I was poorly , I said — and now I 'm meant to be lying down in my room . |
| 24 | Today I was invited to tea at Lady Emily 's to meet Krishnaji . |
| 25 | Well I was sent to the erm United , well it was n't a United Reform Church then but it was called the Chapel and I was sent to there , to Sunday School there , mornings and afternoon and we went two by two across to the Chapel , you see , so while my father , we used to walk down the street together . |
| 26 | well I was worked to death |
| 27 | Well I 'm meant to be funny darling . |
| 28 | Three and a half years ago I was promoted to manager . |
| 29 | I 'd almost got the feeling he was attached to me , or maybe I was attached to him . |
| 30 | eh he says , then I were transferred to another one , then from another one , to another one . |