Example sentences of "[Wh adv] i [was/were] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that 's just how I was until the age of twelve , I recognise myself . |
| 2 | To have that evening with Francis once more , not all of it , just the moment when I was through the door and heard him say , ‘ Do n't go , do n't go , ’ and I would n't have gone , and my story would have had a different end ? |
| 3 | I worked with the Hawaiian manager for a while once , and we organised a similar scheme for two of our jocks when I was with the Wellington station last year . ’ |
| 4 | Well , at least until Sunday when I was on a promise at the hospital with Ruth and some new bandages . |
| 5 | And that 's a bit like that erm the teaching skills that I had to do that time when I was on the course . |
| 6 | Oh I remember when I was when I was on the Green , there were two ladies , there used to be a pub called the er erm What was that pub called , now ? |
| 7 | Yes I mean er when I s er you know when I was on the Q E Two and was chatting with a fella and er he , they 'd been , he 'd obviously been cruising before and was on this cruise and er they were going on the er another Cunard ship a few months later , and it turned out that he was a hotelier who 'd bought a hotel in Swanage some years ago , I think he 'd had about seven bedrooms when he bought it and he gradually extended it , I forget how many he did tell me , and then he had a bit of a heart er attack and er his doctor told him to , you know , well if I were you I 'd just pack in your job which he did and that was about fifteen years ago he was I du n no if he was eighty or he was approaching eighty if he was n't and was in pretty good form , he was dancing , and er , you know , I mean there money 's no object . |
| 8 | Taskopruzade quotes from his father these words of Hocazade 's : " At the time when I was at the Sultan medrese in Bursa I was thirty-three years old and loved nothing save Taskopruzade goes on to say that Hocazade used to take more pride in having taught at the Sultan medrese than in having been kazasker or Mehmed II's Hoca . |
| 9 | ‘ I went out with him a couple of times when I was at the Sorbonne . ’ |
| 10 | I mean I remember when I was at the New York Times and I wanted to use Cheltenham wide for a headline , Cheltenham bold well sort of bold wide , but it 's just called Cheltenham wide in the book , and because Cheltenham was always part of the New York Times library , whatever you call it , in the composing room . |
| 11 | I was dragged out of my bed one morning when I was in A Division , and at that time unless you passed your life-saving exams in the water , you could n't be considered for promotion . |
| 12 | The story of the falling apple , which Newton himself loved to tell in his old age , would place his discovery of the law of universal gravitation in the anni mirabili of the plague years of 1665–66 ‘ when I was in the prime of my age for invention ’ . |
| 13 | That 's right yeah , yeah , yeah but er cos I remember the caverns from before the war when I was in the Cubs . |
| 14 | They 're there for one reason and one reason only I know , cos I 've been involved in fox hunting , I 've shot and fished but I 'll tell you something , was also trained to hunt humans , going back many years ago , when I was in the Falkland Islands training for the event that happened eventually . |
| 15 | ‘ I remember when I was in the middle of a presentation in the advertising agency where I was working and the phone went . |
| 16 | But the overwhelming majority of the palace 's clients when I was in the North-East were local men , and nearly half — the biggest single category — were there because their own homes had been disbanded . |
| 17 | In any case , I recall things reaching something of a climax one grey and drizzly afternoon when I was in the billiard room attending to Lord Darlington 's sporting trophies . |
| 18 | Did I hear the hon. Gentleman say that this happened on Thursday when I was in the Chair ? |
| 19 | Then today , when I was by the nail ( he always sits on the steps up ) , I said ( I did it on purpose ) run and get me a cigarette . |
| 20 | I decided to stay where I was at the moment until things quietened down . |
| 21 | ‘ The referee could have given us two penalties in the first half but the one he did give did n't look much from where I was in the dug-out . |
| 22 | I turn back to where I was in the text . |
| 23 | And then the tables faded away , and the music shook me , and I forgot where I was in the joy of raising my voice above the talk and the traffic and the whole street and high over the awning into the sky , with nothing but strummed chords on the guitar for company . |
| 24 | ‘ Obviously I would love to get back to where I was before the injury , but it 's very much a case of taking one game at a time . ’ |
| 25 | That 's why I was in the team for after half term . |
| 26 | I know that if I broke down in my car , wherever I was in the country , whatever time of night it was , Pete would come to the rescue . |