Example sentences of "[pron] was [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was stripped naked and suspended on a crucifix , ’ he said . |
| 2 | I 'd only been there about five minutes when they came to escort me off down to Bleak House , where I was stripped naked and given a blanket and put into a cell . |
| 3 | It was my lunch hour and I was dressed classic BR Clerk Chic ( beer-stained jacket , tightly knotted skinny tie , crimplene shiny ass pants and shoes with animal tracks and a useful compass in the heel ) . |
| 4 | I was made uneasy by those parading men in smart suits and dark glasses , who appeared to be a kind of confraternity of Falangists , ardent nationalists and supporters of Franco , whose picture was everywhere . |
| 5 | I was made sorry for her at first , as I would be for any young girl , crippled — it is hinted by the cruelty of her husband — and a mother , but even at the beginning there is a niggling doubt that she is rather superficial and shallow . |
| 6 | I was made redundant less than a year after I became a Sheffield city councillor , and I 've never believed in those sorts of coincidences . |
| 7 | I wo n't be rushing out to spend big this Christmas because I was made redundant a few weeks ago and have had no luck finding another job . |
| 8 | A few days later , I was made redundant . |
| 9 | Er you one must be reminded that er it 's only three weeks today from when I was made redundant |
| 10 | I was made redundant when I was fifty eight by Welwyn Garden City when er Welwyn Garden City that 's er I was unemployed . |
| 11 | Two years later when I was sixty and four months I was made redundant quite happy . |
| 12 | I was made redundant in the summer.Ity 's a chicken and egg thing . |
| 13 | I was made nervous , but was careful not to seem so . |
| 14 | I was made head girl there and captain of the senior hockey team . |
| 15 | I happened to have with me the journal of Dorothy Wordsworth on my trip to the Dales as I had forgotten to return it to the public library , and you have my word that I dropped it the instant I was made aware that they were harbouring a drug addict . |
| 16 | For the first time in my life I was made conscious of not being able to control my own situation . |
| 17 | I was stopped short by torchlight in my face . |
| 18 | On a visit to New York that summer I was stopped short by an elaborate poster on 47th Street welcoming all to Danny 's Den for drinks and food , and to see the appearance of ‘ the one and only Miss Ella Shields ( from London , England ) , the Original Burlington Bertie ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ Sometimes I think I was born lucky . |
| 20 | I was born white . |
| 21 | I was never a child I was born bald . |
| 22 | I was struck dumb because George Crowninshield , senator and possibly a future President of the United States , had come alone to Straker 's Cay . |
| 23 | ‘ Not in the conventional sense , but I was given moral codes of conduct to follow . ’ |
| 24 | I was given anti- depressants , that did n't help and it was n't until four years later when they actually admitted me to hospital and then an ulcer and the depression disappeared once it had been diagnosed . |
| 25 | In London I was kept busy — liaison with the Burma Office and frequent contact with Sir John Clague , the very able and wise adviser to whom the Department in Simla had reported regularly , interviews with the BBC , the MOI , the British Council , Chatham House . |
| 26 | But you see , the Reverend has a distant relative whom he means to put in my place and so I was granted sick leave over the holiday in order that his dear Jonathan could come and assist him with the Christmas services . |
| 27 | ‘ I was shaken rigid when Naylor opened your door to me last night . ’ |
| 28 | I have carried out several privatisations in my time in commercial and industrial departments , and my understanding of the word privatisation is that one takes something currently managed in the public sector and transfers it to the private sector — the last such transfer in which I was engaged involved British Steel . |
| 29 | On retirement from the Army & Navy Stores I was appointed managing director of Hatchards , Piccadilly , and Miss Riley came as my secretary and continued there in a full or part time capacity for many years . |
| 30 | At the age of 34 I was appointed Chief Executive of Warwickshire County Council , an organisation with 16,000 staff and a budget of £250 million . |