Example sentences of "i [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 . |