Example sentences of "[conj] i [was/were] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The strangers ' faces were barely visible , but from ground level ( where I was leaning out of the tent ) I could see that three of them were wearing football boots . |
| 2 | Can I say that , when I was interviewed for the job of er , Director , or I was asked along with other applicants , to put forward a er paper presenting my issues and concerns , and I can say to you , equal opportunities was a key one there . |
| 3 | I was aware that I was attracted to boys and men from about the age of twelve or fourteen , but although I was brought up in London I still did n't find it very easy to have any sort of contact with other gay men . |
| 4 | The prints were n't too bad , considering that I was hanging out of the back window of the plane with just a thin safety belt between me and the farm land 200ft below . |
| 5 | Again the densities that I was getting back from them varied considerably , from a hundred workers per hectare on some |
| 6 | ‘ Were n't you a little shocked to hear that I was born out of wedlock . ’ |
| 7 | It must have been then that I was blown up by the land-mine , which may well have knocked out Private Prescott as well . ’ |
| 8 | It happened that I was called back to the farm on the following Thursday to " cleanse " a cow and was in the byre when Dodson the drover called to pick up Blossom . |
| 9 | When I helped him into bed he said , with some echo of his old authority , that nothing was to change while he was here ; that I was to go on with my work ; that he would teach me to play chess at last ; that he was absolutely thrilled to be out of hospital , and it would be a positive delight to look after himself . |
| 10 | It 's obvious from the record that I was weighted down by an incredible burden I did n't know was mine or not. , |
| 11 | I knew right then you were the one that I was caught up in physical objection but to my satisfaction baby you were more than just a phase . |
| 12 | It 's laughable but at the time it was n't laughable but when you think back , this man that I was put on with , he was acting guard foreman . |
| 13 | They would ask me into their classes to watch them teach ; they gave me time for interviews ; they allowed me into staff meetings and departmental meetings and I at various points in my research I erm attempted to feed back to them some of the material that I was coming up with , and we would have meetings to discuss this and I would erm use those meetings then to refine my ideas . |
| 14 | I worshipped you , Angela , thought that I was coming back to you , and when you left me , you left me with nothing . |
| 15 | In fact I 'd told a couple of the group — Mr and Mrs Kronquist , I think it was — that I was going up to Summertown . ’ |
| 16 | And I thought he was a nightmare or that I was going out of my mind . |
| 17 | You think I did it on purpose , that I was checking up on you . ’ |
| 18 | I felt like a portly 60 year old man with a beard , and that I was shuffling down to the shops in my espadrilles like he does , with his horrible , ratty little dog . ’ |
| 19 | I spent a month at home with the children and I suddenly realized all the things that I was missing out on — watching the baby grow up , start to crawl , the first few words , things like that . |
| 20 | He said : ‘ I 'm disgusted that I was allowed out of the first hospital in that state . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ My father and Edwin Garland were very close friends , so much so that I was brought up to regard Beryl and Francis as cousins . ’ |
| 22 | The next generation which is taking over the reins of industry is a generation who were not brought up in the same milieu that I was brought up in . |
| 23 | It is simply that I was brought up in the East of Scotland and have lived in places whither the Orangemen walketh not , neither in triumph nor provocation . |
| 24 | Well in in th the year that I was brought up in there was a a much more er er traditional fee structure which simply was n't negotiated in the same way as it is today . |
| 25 | He were parked up there well every coalman I 've pulled him about this coke stuff and I 'd seen him other day and I pulled him , explained that I were going over on April first |
| 26 | I gave the old man a tip , and soon Mrs M. and I were speeding back to Ballina . |
| 27 | After that win , Hope 's family and supporters celebrated with champagne in the dressing room and Lawless recalled : ‘ We only had a few glasses and Mo and I were drinking out of the same one . |
| 28 | Eventually Frankie and I were called in by Mum and told to get a wash and change as it was nearly time to go . |
| 29 | My brother and I were brought up in the Catholic faith . |
| 30 | What , and I were brought up in church ? |