Example sentences of "i was [verb] [prep] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was looking at that bloke in the Metro going fuck me |
| 2 | I was charged in that name , I was sentenced in that name . ’ |
| 3 | No excitement in my life has ever quite equalled the tense fifteen minutes during which I was connected to that fish . |
| 4 | What I did there was I had my Trio preamp going through a Boogie 295 power amp into a couple of Boogie Black Shadow speaker cabs and I was switching between that setup and the Fender Twin . |
| 5 | If I was born in that period , I would be dead already , and you would n't need to listen to me But if you look at this as far as the medical profession and the insurance profession need each other , what happened to these people when they develop an infective condition ? |
| 6 | Somebody like me , if I was stood at that table , I mean okay if you 've got kids coming in , but if you get adults coming in , I would n't be able to answer questions , I do n't know enough about the product . |
| 7 | well my thoughts had cristalized that we would have to change the direction of er , we communicating with them as we 've done in the past , we could n't just use adverts that we might have used regional in a regional press , we had to pick out the point , in the , in the actual article so that four example there were six or seven points that had clearly been made , statements that had been made , I had to devise a scheme then , er , it was only a scheme in my thinking that actually , I had to devise a scheme that would pick up each of these points encounter them , now there was no way I could simply take an advert out and say , they said this , we say that because that would have had no credibility , so what I was thinking at that time is how we might be able to use some other form of being able to counter those six or seven points and I started to come up with an idea perhaps using a third party , because in our business , third party recommendation are very , very powerful and when selling to the elderly because they do not take , I 'm sorry , they take a long time to come to a decision , they mull over it and such like , they take a lot of influence from people , take advise from family , accountants , solicitors , bank managers and such like , so the idea of having a third party in a sense recommend then would have allowed us to get over those particular points , so that 's what was germinating in my mind at the time |
| 8 | I was thinking about that project and erm but it is total is totally separate . |
| 9 | I was amazed during a recent visit to headquarters of the number of requests for posters and tickets I saw when I was leafing through that bible , the design it file . |
| 10 | Mind you , when I was skivvying for that Brixton fam'ly , the head of the fam'ly did n't 'alf take a fancy to me . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I was screaming at that critic who admires The White Hotel . |
| 12 | I was charged in that name , I was sentenced in that name . ’ |
| 13 | Then I was taken from that room |
| 14 | I would n't trust anybody I was talking to that lady , paper shop you know where you used to wait for Les |
| 15 | " I was talking to that boy next to you . " |
| 16 | I was talking to that presenter of that alternative-politics programme — what 's his name ? — and he said that he 'd got annoyed with a colleague because she criticized his pink bow-tie . |
| 17 | When I was sitting in that corridor there was one of the tutors on the phone , only for a short while |
| 18 | You know , there 's no point in wasting your time you know , logging everybody else , and you go to the boss , and you say , boss you know that personal management skills course that I , you said I should go on , so you proving what , you know , what a good person you are , because you 've remembered a month later what the course was called , erm , I , I was told on that course to keep an interruptions log , so you 're proving , you know , that you are a good person when you 've done this , and i see from this that a great deal of your valuable time is being eroded by my humble concerns , you know , something like that . |
| 19 | ‘ Well , I was going to that night of the dance and then I thought it was a bad time with it being Christmas and the New Year coming right afterwards . |
| 20 | ‘ I was coming to that bit , sir . ’ |
| 21 | I was mesmerized by that mouth , by the sharp edges of white teeth I could see when she smiled . |
| 22 | It came to me as I listened that I did n't want to be anywhere else in the world at that moment , that what I was feeling at that moment justified all I had been through , because all I had been through was my being there . |
| 23 | If I was lying on that floor I 'd be as hungry as a cat outside a birdcage . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | When I read Milton 's description in Paradise Lost of Satan , fallen to lie in Hell , a monstrous unimaginable bulk , I was reminded of that Odeon . |
| 26 | ‘ I was reminded of that poltergeist in West Germany ! ’ |
| 27 | Well I do n't know why , I was drawn to that colour . |