Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [vb pp] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was led into all these commitments in a very friendly and deferential spirit , and in a similar spirit of friendship and hospitality I was invited to numerous social engagements , from impressive lunch in honour of the Minister of Education to an invitation to a private home in Jaipur , where my kind host and hostess had gone to the trouble of preparing sandwiches , cake , chips ( without the fish ) and pudding , in case I should not like the Indian dishes served for the other guests ! |
| 2 | I was sent to Nongkhai province in the North East of Thailand on the Maekhong River across from the capital of Laos . |
| 3 | We get sent all over erm the country , southern England I , I was sent to different hospitals to learn about different things , to learn about erm psychiatry and obstetrics and medicine and then erm you also do some er training back in your own hospital , but it 's not big enough for all the doctors to stay there all the time well the baby doctors . |
| 4 | I arrived expecting high rise hotels and crowded shores , instead I was treated to pretty villages built in honey coloured stone and fields of poppies . |
| 5 | When I arrived , I was treated to magnificent views of the Pyrenees in the distance , but was disappointed to find the church , which was the reason for the trek , was closed . |
| 6 | At lunch-times , I was given to mental lapses . |
| 7 | I was expected to double de-clutch , better for the gear box , and to talk my way through signs and observations . |
| 8 | Then I was promoted to assistant cashier at the Wandsworth branch where I had to deal with the toll accounts to go to head office as well as the share accounts and the dividends . |
| 9 | I was promoted to assistant manageress in the clothes shop , and worked a further eight months before leaving to have my first child . |
| 10 | I was used to long-distance safety in my work , and in the past to many physical dangers , but never to this sort of risk . |
| 11 | Oh it was heavy but I was used to heavy stuff on . |
| 12 | over a number of years I was subjected to domestic violence , erm , the last time I left I did n't report it right away , morally it was my son , I did n't want to drag him through the court , but when I did I was told no , your too late , you will just be seen as a woman scorned , your trying to get revenge , and that 's it , no , I 'm not taking a statement . |
| 13 | I was drawn to contrary poles . |
| 14 | And so I was left to live alone with my aunt . |
| 15 | after you 'd done the survey you were asked to multiple options you |
| 16 | I 'm interested in the way you were attracted to British art . |
| 17 | She was transferred to intensive care , her breathing gave great concern and therefore she was put on a br ventilator . |
| 18 | Alone , she was given to melodramatic sonnet sequences and masturbation . |
| 19 | At the Colony Room she herself provided dramatic focus for , perched perennially on a bar stool , she was given to unrelenting abuse . |
| 20 | Ali had an aunt in Southfields , but , he told the headmaster , she was doomed to everlasting hell-fire . |
| 21 | But it is encapsulated in the phrase that she was subjected to sadistic behaviour over a lengthy period of time which she accepted because she was in love with him . |
| 22 | On the facing page Maastricht opponent Teresa Gorman reveals how she was subjected to unprecedented harassment and even sexually offensive remarks by fellow MPs as the crucial vote approached . |
| 23 | Captured by Blackfoot or Atsina Indians when accompanying buffalo-hunters to Montana in the late eighteenth century , she was sold to eastern Indians and then on to a French-Canadian at Red River . |
| 24 | She was used to draughty spaces , soaring walls , a nightly ritual of wraps and hot bricks in winter . |
| 25 | She was used to insolent treatment from fellow servants — for she had long learned that a companion , be she never so genteel , was regarded as little more than that . |
| 26 | It was n't possible she was attached to young Geoffrey — whenever she mentioned him her voice had an edge of contempt . |
| 27 | She assisted at French cave excavations , including La Quina in Charente , where she was introduced to Neanderthal man and his Mousterian culture , thereafter to be a central interest . |
| 28 | We were treated to splendid views of distant mountains and farms scattered among an open rocky landscape . |
| 29 | ‘ We began to drift apart when we were posted to different ships . |
| 30 | In between the ladies and the gents ( matches I mean ) we were ushered to private rooms , where , beneath striped awnings , we were right royally entertained to a distinguished tea . |