Example sentences of "i was [prep] a [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you passed for Sergeant , you got two ten-shilling special allowances , and when I got made Sergeant , I was on a bike allowance of seven shillings a week . |
| 2 | ‘ I was on a cruise liner , ’ Lucy said absently , continuing to study the menu while her mind raced through all the angles . |
| 3 | I am very worried now because I was on a deportation order , the immigration had n't been settled . |
| 4 | The speech began : ‘ I was on a Greyhound bus out of Carlsbad heading for Loving , New Mexico . |
| 5 | Ah , how touching ! thought Anna : it reminds me of Dmitri , when I was on a field trip in the Urals , that summer — oh , was it ‘ 66 or ‘ 67 ? |
| 6 | We may have met a long time ago at Rotherfield when I was on a weekend outing from school , but I would n't expect you to remember — it was at least 10 years ago and I ca n't imagine I was a memorable schoolgirl ! |
| 7 | Given the chance , I would have stayed watching or followed the kestrel around the park all day , but if I was on a shopping sortie with my mother , she was always in an incredible hurry , so that was n't possible . |
| 8 | And it came to the crunch in April , I was on a death wish . |
| 9 | On the other hand , if I was on a picket line or somewhere , I could give him a pretty hard old shove without pulled in , I would imagine . |
| 10 | But er I was with a gentleman friend . |
| 11 | I never had , he was never my teacher for I was I was with a pupil teacher . |
| 12 | ‘ I remember I was at a council meeting and they mentioned they were having difficulty letting an old shop on the end of Redcar pier , ’ said Mr Brook . |
| 13 | I was at a day school in Hampstead , King Alfred School , in its heyday , and we went out to Golders Green and boarded the open top of a No. 13 bus and sat on it till it came back to Golders Green again — such sights we saw ! |
| 14 | Quite a few years ago now I was at a Family Service on an Advent Sunday , and the young curate began his talk with a question addressed to the children . |
| 15 | THE OTHER WEEK , I was at a dinner party in Kensington . |
| 16 | I was at a jumble sale the other day and managed to buy a bucket and a coat . |
| 17 | The field was laid out in strips about two feet apart and only after pushing into the crop did I realize that the plants were trained up a trellis of almost invisible wires and that I was in a hop field — a ‘ beer field ’ , as Duncan would have called it . |
| 18 | He added : ‘ I never struck him with my fists or kicked him in the face when I was in a standing position . ’ |
| 19 | I was in a flower shop when I heard the noise . |
| 20 | I mean one day , I mean I was in a customer care meeting for three hours on Monday , so obviously I lost some there , but you know , that particular day I was on a , just on the phone personally on my B M S for just over three hours , and just looking at the other things that I had to deal with . |
| 21 | Clough responded furiously from his home yesterday , saying : ‘ Not a penny was passed between Terry Venables and me and the last time I was in a motorway service station , I went for a wee . ’ |
| 22 | Clough responded furiously from his home yesterday , saying : ‘ Not a penny was passed between Terry Venables and me and the last time I was in a motorway service station , I went for a wee . ’ |
| 23 | Back in ‘ sixty-two I was in a car chase with Gilles ‘ de Rais ’ Gordon , the Bloomsbury Bluebeard . |
| 24 | I felt I was in a prisoner-of-war camp . ’ |
| 25 | However , it was n't necessary , for within a week with a sudden shout of joy ( while I was in a tin bath ! ) |
| 26 | I graduated in 1967 and then I did postgraduate work till 1969 and so I was in a student milieu until a year before the gay movement started . |
| 27 | The fact that I was in a prison camp at all should have made clear to me the ruthlessness and irresistibility of the stampede . |
| 28 | When I was young I was like a stick insect , then at fourteen or fifteen I put on weight . |
| 29 | I mean that that addicted to it , I was like a heroin addict , you know ? |
| 30 | Oh w when I first went to place I I had to er I had to clean er clean I had to I was like a scullery maid . |