Example sentences of "i was [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as I had been told repeatedly that I was destined to ‘ do well ’ , so then I was being told that I was destined to be ‘ stout ’ . |
| 2 | Just as I had been told repeatedly that I was destined to ‘ do well ’ , so then I was being told that I was destined to be ‘ stout ’ . |
| 3 | I was pretending to be another man , but losing my own heart . |
| 4 | I was invited to lunch one day . |
| 5 | First of all I was invited to lunch in Leeds and they sent the helicopter for me , piloted by Captain John Leeson , who had done all the flying for the aerial shots in the film . |
| 6 | Micheline sounded excited to hear from me and I was invited to the group 's meeting a few weeks later . |
| 7 | Today I was invited to tea at Lady Emily 's to meet Krishnaji . |
| 8 | We would meet secretly and , when she knew her father was away , I was invited to her home . |
| 9 | I was invited to the school in the village of Atgor . |
| 10 | Last year I was invited to Wimbledon on the big day by ticket-holding members of the media . |
| 11 | ‘ I lived my life in Siglo XX as described in the book until 1980 , when I was invited to a conference on women in Denmark . |
| 12 | A fortnight ago , I was invited to a meeting of Somali refugees in East Ham town hall . |
| 13 | I was invited to the Royal Premiere in London to view the production before it came to our theatre . |
| 14 | 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 ! |
| 15 | I went to erm the guy I work with is a Belgian and I was invited to his birthday party . |
| 16 | ‘ MY MISSION IN ENGLAND COMPLETED , I WAS RECALLED TO WASHINGTON ’ |
| 17 | I was escorted to the fifth floor and shown in to a riverside suite which was named after Sir Charles Chaplin , because he always used to stay there when he visited London . |
| 18 | I was escorted to my hotel by Hansi and he kissed my cheek . |
| 19 | ‘ I realise that if I was to move to South Africa I would be living a completely different existence . |
| 20 | But much latelier , in the private academies of Italy , wither I was favoured to resort , perceiving that some trifles which I had in memory , composed at under twenty or thereabouts , for the manner is that everyone must give some proof of his wit a reading there , met with acceptance above what was looked for , and other things which I had shifted in scarcity of books and conveniences to patch up amongst them , were received with written incomience which the Italian is not forward to bestow on men of this side the Alps . |
| 21 | The fact that the ordnance survey map of Ben Lawers proudly declared a Visitor Centre at the base left me no choice in the route I was to take to the top . |
| 22 | I was called to the administration block of the hospital and later went to register the death , and to make an appointment with an undertaker — this was for ten o'clock the next morning . |
| 23 | The day after returning to Vancouver I was called to Ira Dilworth 's office at five o'clock . |
| 24 | I was called to a house and there was a man in agony . |
| 25 | One such dreadful night I was called to the gate house by Mr Rideout , our so loyal and efficient gate porter . |
| 26 | So , imagine my relief when I was called to the front porch , and I was greeted by a cheery ‘ American Red Cross reporting for duty Ma'am . |
| 27 | The first week in July I was called to the Malet Street premises of the University . |
| 28 | About three years ago , I was called to a bread commercial : Windmill Bread . |
| 29 | G. Hare , D.S.C. , who takes up the story of the preparations : ‘ In mid April 1941 I was called to London for a secret verbal appointment and interviewed by Rear-Admiral Clement Moody , the Fifth Sea Lord ( he had been my Captain in ‘ Eagle ’ ) . |
| 30 | But when I turned up at the hospital they put me on call and I was called to Casualty to anaesthetise a man . |