Example sentences of "[coord] i was [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the light of this and a vivid description of an unexpected home delivery to my husband — we were taking no chances — and I was rushed to the Birmingham Maternity Hospital , with 5 minute contractions , the evening before the 2nd Estimated Day Delivery with what turned out to be a false alarm ! |
| 2 | My employment with CBC began at the salary of $150. per month which was very acceptable , and I was assigned to the newly created post as Talks Producer . |
| 3 | Micheline sounded excited to hear from me and I was invited to the group 's meeting a few weeks later . |
| 4 | I went to erm the guy I work with is a Belgian and I was invited to his birthday party . |
| 5 | ‘ After the Smiths I had been playing the guitar for a few years and I was listening to things like Aztec Camera and Orange Juice . |
| 6 | ‘ I started playing guitar when I was fourteen , ’ says Rowland , ‘ and I was listening to people like Roxy Music and David Bowie . |
| 7 | I was always terribly shy and I was sent to what were known as elocution lessons — to get me out of myself . |
| 8 | and I was sent to Margate with my Mum . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She dressed me just as finely as them , and I was sent to a very expensive school . |
| 11 | I sought the help of the Public Bill on this and I was referred to erm Statutes i in force . |
| 12 | Anyway , I got up , and went about my chores , feeding the cats and brewing tea for the rest of the still-slumbering inhabitants of my humble home in order to get them up and out to school and work , and I was thinking to myself as the kettle boiled that here was the start of yet another ordinary damned day , when the post clanked and slithered through the letter box . |
| 13 | But when I turned up at the hospital they put me on call and I was called to Casualty to anaesthetise a man . |
| 14 | And I was speaking to Elaine today erm , over at Queensway , who , who I used to work with and erm , her erm nephew , ne niece |
| 15 | Erm so on that one that 's , that 's you did n't use any slang , the belief in the way you asked I think that came out , I was trying to be a prospective client rather than be the trainer cos I could see that Mike was uncomfortable and I was trying to , well okay , how , how would I well I think yeah there was a belief that you had there , I think he was er reasonably attentive , Mike , to your response ? |
| 16 | And I was trying to , gon na move the was gon na discuss with you first , but Croydon see , so they 're actually not Croydon Rank , they 're Croydon , but anyway |
| 17 | Ah now you think about it , I mean there was this question in our maths test and I was chatting to him in the dinner queue about it and I was going yeah it was this and he goes oh you 're probably right and he was agreeing with me and I found out later that I was wrong but he still agreed with me . |
| 18 | And I was hoping to cos I can quote you instances where people have trained in the health service , and they 've been told nineteen seventy four seventy five , when you complete your training , you 're not guaranteed a job in this health authority . |
| 19 | The satisfaction with which the new prayer book was received and used quickly resulted in a request that the Burmese hymn book should be revised and enlarged , and I was asked to be the editor and secretary of the small revision committee . |
| 20 | I was posted to the er ack-ack brigade and I was posted to Norwich , just at Norwich , Coldershaw really . |
| 21 | My posting came through and I was posted to Swordstone this side of Norwich , so I was still quids in , I could get home once a week , twenty four hour pass and then erm after a while erm , having served at Regiment , I was posted up to , as the Sergeant Artillery Clerk with the Brigade , an ack-ack brigade up at Coventry , just outside Coventry and then of course the A T S were coming in , were coming in in quite large numbers then and they were replacing male personnel and then I was posted abroad and I went to Egypt where I was there again , fortunate enough , I suppose , to go into the echelon , the second echelon which was the Records Office of all the forces or the armoured personnel in the Middle East and I worked there until I was actually demobbed from there but I was out in Egypt there for two , just over two years , came back to Northampton where I was finally demobbed and allowed to come home and as I said I came home one week and I was back at work the next . |
| 22 | ‘ She discovered a problem with a blood test and I was admitted to hospital . ’ |
| 23 | Anyway this boy and I was judged to be the most original and the best you see . |
| 24 | Erm Ian left that with me and I was to speak to Bob before Bob gave it to because it was n't very good . |
| 25 | His reflex action was to bend and swing round violently , and I was thrown to the ground . |
| 26 | Some sympathetic mothers covered it with bandages and bulging dressings and I was driven to the doctors ' where I was given a more impressive bandage , leaving my finger looking the size of a small banana . |
| 27 | Fun Fortnight had claimed another victim and I was forced to be game for a laugh and work in a joke shop . |
| 28 | Fun Fortnight had claimed another victim and I was forced to be game for a laugh and work in a joke shop . |
| 29 | The operation took place at midday and I was taken to the recovery room in the course of the afternoon . |
| 30 | Mum just wrapped her up , rang the ambulance , and I was taken to hospital . |