Example sentences of "[noun] i [was/were] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 But I gave my genuine reason for returning earlier , which was the Arts Council 's monthly meeting , in which I was deeply interested and whose chairman I was at the time .
2 K. M. I was on the Dingle Lane gate — Shell Mex place — and I 'd been down there a few months .
3 ‘ Of course I was at the time .
4 Well it was steady income I was in the house every night my wife was happy .
5 Within minutes I was inside the camp , where I hoped to meet the tinkers who had tried to rob me at Killorglin .
6 Yeah your , here 's , here 's your Christmas present I was on the streets for that .
7 At times I was on the way down and the ball was on the way up .
8 And then eight or nine weeks after my happy entry into College I was on the carpet — kindly chat , of course , but none the less serious for not being a court martial !
9 If anybody said , if , Tuesday we started , if anybody said on the , what they want sent them Wednesday , Thursday , Friday , take all the orders down under their appropriate names in the book but right an Mond Tuesday , Wednesday Thursday my day off and Friday and Saturday I was in the office .
10 Now , I can hold my liquor as well as the next man , so it is ludicrous to suggest that when I reversed the club van into the tea hut I was under the influence .
11 Aye , in the Washington I was in the Washington
12 T. D. I was on the beat round Stanley Hospital and I got to this point at four o'clock on the Saturday morning .
13 So er when I was , I was on the county council I was on the welfare committee and er in later years I was on the planning committee .
14 The next moment I was on the floor and one was kicking me and the other was hitting me in the face .
15 Wharton said : ‘ It is something that I must overcome , I had trained for 12 rounds and was thinking of the crowd instead of doing the job I was in the ring to do . ’
16 In late October he wrote again to Rohde : " This evening I was at the Euterpe Society , which has started its winter concerts , and refreshed myself with the Prelude to Tristan und Isolde as well as the Overture to Die Meistersinger .
17 In the evening I was in the dressing-room after the show when a note was brought to me .
18 So er when I was , I was on the county council I was on the welfare committee and er in later years I was on the planning committee .
19 for a while I was in the Air Force and then I lived in various parts of the country .
20 ‘ Only the other day I was at the vicarage , seeing Mrs Ainger about my stall at the bazaar-I 'm doing the fancy work this year , you know — and there was pussy , bold as brass , if you please , walking into the lounge as if she owned it . ’
21 One day I was in the wheelchair and people were talking to John and Jo but ignoring me .
22 One day I was in the library and I came across this book .
23 The first week I was at the school , I attempted to climb a tree , and was reproved by a horrified prefect .
24 right I 'll , last week I was in the surgery one day to help Sue and she had
25 When I was a teenager I was in the middle of a techno revolution , listening to Japanese avant-garde , techno and new rave bands .
26 No I , its not my speciality , I have tried and I , I really ca n't , I ca n't cope with the discipline of it at all , it , it er ruins the activity that I have , I know some people , one , one woman I was on the course with , it was n't you was it Phillip ? , it was somebody , was it you who worked , no
27 God I were in the market and I thought I 'd better take a bit more wrapping paper and I and I had it I said that 's ten and of course I get on the and I did n't know
28 But you said he was at the bottom of the stairs I was at the top and you were in his office
29 At the beginning of my illness I was on the exercise bike every day , desperate to lose weight .
30 When Iraq first invaded Iran I was against the war .
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