Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [verb] [adv] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is teasing me , as the hon. Member for Normanton ( Mr. O'Brien ) and I were teased occasionally in the Standing Committee on the Local Government Finance Bill during the past three weeks . |
| 2 | My brother and I were brought up in the Catholic faith . |
| 3 | Last night he and I were sitting silently in the kitchen at about midnight , when Heathcliff came home . |
| 4 | As I slid to the floor I was kicked hard in the face with a slippered foot . |
| 5 | There was also the night when I was buzzing round in the office car , making the routine late calls at the district police stations and ambulance headquarters in Cardiff , just before midnight . |
| 6 | ‘ I was rammed twice in the 250cc race when in the lead and then fell off later on . |
| 7 | ‘ I was released late in the evening . |
| 8 | I was asking today in the English seminar , asking Mr Stevens if they knew about the erm , exam structure . |
| 9 | you just want something come back to the people I was talking originally in the week , that |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I was brought up in the world of the arts because , apart from the Rothschild side which had some influence on me , my mother was a completely Bloomsbury figure , and her mother was a great friend of Matisse and a distinguished collector — she was a Strachey , very English . |
| 12 | As a male Caucasian with a father who had died of a coronary thrombosis at the age of 59 , I was brought up in the smoky atmosphere of a northern industrial town . |
| 13 | Like most people , I was brought up in the belief that a nightmare was something bad that happened while you were asleep . |
| 14 | And it it was , I mean I was brought up in the country and it , I found it really shocking that people had to live like that , you know . |
| 15 | I was brought up in the country , on a farm you know , so I 'll try and sort of make you know equal amount of flowers in each , and then er it can be halved . |
| 16 | ‘ I was brought up in the countryside . |
| 17 | I was brought up in the cloister , and have Latin and French as well as English and Welsh . ’ |
| 18 | I was brought up in the days of the old Police Acts . |
| 19 | It was an unfortunate evening for me : I was knocked out in the second round , the only time I was knocked out , either at Eton or at Oxford . |
| 20 | I was awakened sometime in the small hours with a snorting and snuffling and a large shadow on my tent . |
| 21 | Says Harrison : ‘ I was thrashing about in the water with all my clothes on and ended up being dragged down . |
| 22 | I was waiting out in the garden for you to come back . ’ |
| 23 | When I was tipped back in the dentist 's chair |
| 24 | It was n't until I was sitting again in the Cafe des Amis , clutching Ramon 's hand like a lifebelt , that I could really breathe again . |
| 25 | It was just as I was sitting down in the living room with my cup of coffee that I realised I 'd left my bag on the train . |
| 26 | After a long time I heard him get up and come over to the long wall , near to where I was sitting listlessly in the arm-chair . |
| 27 | This came home to me when I was travelling alone in the Far East for some months . |
| 28 | So I was laid out in the back of the van on the bed and he 's driving down this field to put the tent , because it had little er bits you know where it 's marked out for you to camp , and I 'm driving around in the back saying , yes you 've , you 've just missed the fence there and you know . |
| 29 | I was caught up in the Truby King Mothercraft doctrine of 1935 … |
| 30 | Cos I was going out in the fresh air , I 'm alright when I 'm out in the fresh air . |