Example sentences of "[noun] [subord] i [was/were] [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Do you mean that you started writing Jane Eyre while I was lying in that dark room in Manchester ? ’ |
| 2 | I went looking for a quiet place to sit — while gazing with interest at the multi armed , three-breasted Salmo'kkan dancers being sinuous on a mini-stage when I was frozen in mid stride |
| 3 | ‘ I played for their club when I was touring in Germany , and they volunteered to come over and help us whenever they could . |
| 4 | Well now that , that 's the thing we did appreciate , because er in those days no , no house had got its own bath it was a case of a tin bath on the hearth , but when I joined the club when I was working in the , when I was thirteen I , I left school cos me being having no father I was able to l leave school when I made me attendances , oh that 's something that might interest you I was thinking about . |
| 5 | In any event , I was a little old lady so I was left in peace . |
| 6 | I think they spoke to each other but I did n't get a good look until I was sitting in Armstrong with the engine running . |
| 7 | Well I suppose erm well I I I I mean I remember er ludicrous really , sort of thinking of what I would say at the Tory party conference while I was lying in that hospital in Venice . |
| 8 | It 's only a few days since I was sitting in the seats you all occupy , realising the difficult job that a Lord Mayor has to undertake in keeping members in order . |
| 9 | My period of training took place as I was practising in the clinical area . |
| 10 | ‘ I can assure you , ’ he told Tom Driberg , ‘ that if I was left as free a hand in French Indochina and the Netherlands East Indies as I was left in Burma , I could solve both these problems by the same methods ; though it is heartbreaking to have to leave the political control to other nations when we are really in military control . ’ |
| 11 | I even met one in the walnut tree when I was working in the garden one night . |
| 12 | There was one occasion when I was sitting in the kitchen and I heard the front door close , and then footsteps in the hall . |
| 13 | I heard an amazing comment when I was sat in the North East corner of Elland Road for the Crewe game . |
| 14 | As a writing partner he had two rare gifts : the ability to get us unstuck with some inspired off-the-wall conceit when I was enmeshed in very on-the-wall musings ; and in addition , the priceless talent of knowing whether something was funny or not . |
| 15 | O'Leary explains : ‘ I am qualified for Ireland through my dad 's nationality , but I 've always considered myself an Essex man because I was born in Harold Wood . ’ |
| 16 | Craig was able to say his thanks in church while I was languishing in bed with tonsillitis . |
| 17 | I 've always owned apartments because I was born in a tenement in Glasgow and I like flat-life. , If he has one regret it is that government never saw fit to offer him another major job as challenging as his chairmanship of British Steel when he gave it up in 1976 . |
| 18 | I was treated abominably by the police when I was assaulted in the home |
| 19 | He immediately took to his heels with is case of cigarettes and led me a merry dance away from the docks , through a council estate , finally finishing up on the perimeter track of Ipswich Airport where I was rescued in the nick of time by a squad car full of policemen just as I was about to be filled in by the burly seaman . |
| 20 | Assuming that I 'd been able to drag the dinghy in a fairly straight line — though I might have gone astray a bit when I was stumbling in the mud — Joanna should be lying more or less straight ahead , and a good deal nearer than when I 'd left , for it was near high water then , and now it was about the last of the ebb . |
| 21 | Certainly my bank manager would take a dim view if I were to indulge in widespread massive discounting — margins are not that generous to begin with ! |
| 22 | In 1987 , I did n't have to concern myself about Doomsday scenarios as I was staying in Manchester . |
| 23 | ‘ He was working in the gardens at the château when I was staying in France , and I discovered he was English . |
| 24 | In fact when I was stationed in Mule I used to travel through Zambia to get to one of my out stations |
| 25 | and at one stage when I was walking in India we used to stay at bungalows and one was called Marian Shola and another was called Pine Shola , because it meant that it was a , it was a bungalow in a group of pine trees |