Example sentences of "[pron] was [vb pp] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I was called a Scab . |
| 3 | In military terms , I was called a runner , and as I had no bicycle at that time , running was literally what I did ! |
| 4 | ‘ He 'd been called a wop and I was called a coon . |
| 5 | Yeah I was called a roamer find me . |
| 6 | In 1987 I was elected a Fellow of the British Academy |
| 7 | I was made a bit of a snob . |
| 8 | I sometimes forget that it is the day of the year when I was made a bishop . |
| 9 | ‘ I was made a guinea pig , ’ he says , ‘ and being a guinea pig can hurt like hell . ’ |
| 10 | I never fail to remember on the day of the year when I was made a priest . |
| 11 | The plane lifted off but the weather did not and I was denied a view of Vatnajökull and the central plateau . |
| 12 | At the start of the season I was sent a parcel of goodies , courtesy of Middy Sales Director David Middleton . |
| 13 | When the product finally went onto the market , as the Agenda , I was sent a sample which was unusable . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I was born a rebel raver |
| 16 | ‘ You will remember that although I was born a vicar 's daughter , I have seen quite a different level of life since then . |
| 17 | I would n't like to say I was born a naturalist , but I can remember collecting fossils when I was three . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I was born a Catholic , and I am going to die a Catholic . |
| 20 | I was born a Catholic and I ’ m going to die a Catholic . |
| 21 | I was given a pile of sacristy wash rather than vests , sheets and shirts . |
| 22 | Environmentalists have supported the miners against Pittston strip-mining and long-wall techniques , and I was given a badge which proclaimed ‘ I 'm Pro-Union and Pro-Choice ’ , linking the strike with the most inflammable issue in US politics today , abortion rights . |
| 23 | Details of the flight with map references , operating heights , times and working radius around a point were agreed , and I was given a reference number for future contacts . |
| 24 | For the first offence I was given a fine . |
| 25 | I was given a pay rise because they wanted him as well , you see . |
| 26 | I was given a crash course and then the necessary documents that have seen me through ever since . |
| 27 | I was given a day off of my annual leave to think it over . |
| 28 | I was given a cutting a few years ago by my sister and have subsequently passed on cuttings but have never known the proper name of it or much about it . |
| 29 | ‘ I was given a hero 's welcome when I visited my local pub , ’ says dockworker Jimmy , 38 . |
| 30 | They ca n't bite you , but I was given a bottle of gin and told to go out and sit on the stairs . |