Example sentences of "[that] was [vb pp] to [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their rich , warm colour was a powerful reminder of a world that was lost to us and I suddenly felt sure we would see it again . |
| 2 | What we think of as the music we used to listen to , is n't necessarily the music that was played to us . |
| 3 | One , one point that was made to me is , is it might be , it might be too late for this , but it might be helpful for some staff from residential establishments to actually get to understand what official visits are as well . |
| 4 | I think for example of the sensitivity of some of the small market towns , the point for example that was made to us last week about the sensitivity one settlement with which I 've come increasingly familiar over the last fortnight and that is town centre . |
| 5 | Fran frowned , staring at the broad expanse of his bare back that was presented to her . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , the head that was sent to me . ’ |
| 7 | Or , here 's a letter that was sent to me by Teresa from Birmingham . |
| 8 | But if they died , there was a very young family , a young wife , needing financial independence that was given to them by you , with a life insurance policy . |
| 9 | The Editor is grateful for the help that was given to him by catering personnel at MOD Stanmore who supplied the photographs and RAF Uxbridge . |
| 10 | I well remember a little cardigan from a High Street store that was given to me for my ( then ) six-month-old baby . |
| 11 | There 's also a big , gold jewellery box that was given to me by my godmother . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | First of all I 'm surprised at the outburst that was given to us by Mr I would regard as my er yahabeebee and sadiki if you wish er , but he mentioned in fact the er , what used to be barbaric ac , barbaric er practice in er Pakistan . |
| 15 | ‘ She is not without intelligence , but the harm that was done to her at birth is irreversible . ’ |
| 16 | How then is it possible that a gesture I saw performed by one person , a gesture that was connected to her , that characterized her and was part of her individual charm , could at the same time be the essence of another person and my dreams of her ? |
| 17 | I 'm very sorry chairman , er Mr n and I were checking er a point in response to a question that was asked to me during the break . |
| 18 | MI6 never appreciated the amount of opposition that existed within Germany to Hitler and the Nazi party in its early days and as a result failed to exploit the very considerable amount of information that was offered to it by well-placed anti-Nazi groups . |
| 19 | Er , failure to produce his driving licence failure to produce a test certificate for the vehicle and failure to produce his insurance documents and what Mr says in respect of er , those three offenses is that er , the officer , he accepts , did tell him that he was obliged to produce the documents to a police station but he says that he was suffering some shock as a result of the road accident and er he did n't appreciate what the officer was saying to him at the time and , never having had to produce his documents at the police station before er , he had never er no , known that that was a procedure that had to be followed and in the circumstances he did n't pay any attention to the print on the H R T er , one form that was issued to him and he did n't produce the documents . |
| 20 | And in the circumstances , he did n't pay any attention to the print on the er H R T er one form that was issued to him and he did n't produce the documents . |
| 21 | Then he saw the hand , its fingers curled , as if trying to drag the sprawled body that was attached to it across the room . |
| 22 | The payment was a symbolic expression of the legitimacy of the marriage and of the value that was attached to it . |
| 23 | If the code is kept under review , is there any intention to issue an updated version with any alterations to the 1987 edition which is the one that was supplied to me when I asked for a copy ? |
| 24 | She was careful to show no interest whatever in anything that was shown to her . |
| 25 | He had not given his name in Russian and the bunk that was allocated to him was against the wall at the furthest stretch from the narrow band of heat that the boiler might service . |
| 26 | you know this is the sort of thing and really , you know , sort of cropped hair and enormous moustaches like yard brushes , or this is the story that was told to me , and , and then there was this , all this , all this chortling about why their moustaches were so lubricant , oh yes , er so , so luxurious er rather , I beg your pardon , and erm |
| 27 | As people bustled around him the Doctor had harangued them frantically with all the strength that was left to him . |
| 28 | Feeling more than ever like a cur , Neil turned the pages — but it was all of her that was left to him — and , he told himself firmly , he would read just enough to discover the truth about her … and why she had hoarded the cuttings . |
| 29 | Erm well I 've got a little cottage that was left to me up in erm North Wales that we rent out . |
| 30 | The original flow of the river greatly affected the Mediterranean , too , and the marine life that was adapted to it . |