Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] i was " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , I can hold my liquor as well as the next man , so it is ludicrous to suggest that when I reversed the club van into the tea hut I was under the influence . |
| 2 | In February 1952 King George VI died , and an Old Testament lecture I was attending stopped in the middle . |
| 3 | Professor gentleman I was under . |
| 4 | Later on in my undergraduate career I was lucky enough to be given some teaching by Dr Douglas Ross , consultant in Glasgow , and had personal experience of the efficacy of homoeopathy when he cured the gingivitis ( inflammation of the gums ) which had been plaguing me for three weeks with a homoeopathic preparation of mercury . |
| 5 | I 'm afraid that when Alexander tapped on my study door I was in a rather abstracted state . |
| 6 | Mystified , I took off the small velvet beret I was wearing and , miraculously , the vast hall was quiet , and I learned that the chant had been Cha-peau ! |
| 7 | As a volunteer aid worker I was a failure . |
| 8 | As I quickened my pace in the direction of Brigade H.Q I was thinking : ‘ That is the Officer who said that I was mad ! ’ |
| 9 | So was taking notes during my daily 15 minutes in the library , for the law course I was doing . |
| 10 | The mill was quite close to home so in the lunch hour I was able to go home to see to my mother who was ill at the time . ’ |
| 11 | By the time the meeting was over I was in such a state of excitement and fright that I forgot all about the clothing parcel I was supposed to collect . |
| 12 | Serum pepsinogen I was measured in the sample taken immediately before starting the meal by the commercial radioimmunoassay kit manufactured by Incstar Ltd ( Berkshire , UK ) . |
| 13 | Serum pepsinogen I was measured using commercial radioimmunassay kits obtained from Incstar Ltd ( Berkshire ) . |
| 14 | The increase in serum pepsinogen I was particularly marked in the renal failure patients with H pylori , with its concentration being double that in the renal patients without the infection . |
| 15 | I was mostly bored by the degree course I was doing and spent more and more of my time skiving off to extra-mural classes in Women 's Studies , which were just beginning to happen , and devouring feminist books . |
| 16 | I first recall the line in 1959 when as a young boy scout I was taken to camp at Pont-y-Pant . |
| 17 | As Doug , Meadowbrook would be cast violently against type , but that was exactly the sort of doubletake effect I was interested in . |
| 18 | I was even sufficiently sheltered from the wind to notice the fresh , grassy smell of the cabbage crop I was crossing . |
| 19 | Having already paid for my return ticket I was cross at having to buy another one , and even more upset at having to pay extra for the one-way ticket and convert sterling at an unfavourable rate . |
| 20 | We had just started our first lectures , when apart from helping to prepare the Sulphonamide paper I was given a weekend off to visit City Temple friends who had started a Community House at Highbury New Park . |
| 21 | The mosquito net I was using was less than perfect and my limbs touched the net at night , so the mosquitoes lined up on the net and bit me through it . |
| 22 | Yeah , but you see that 's why when Tracy come to me saying she wanted to , to exchange her council house I was annoyed because I said no , I got that council house for Tracy it 's in her name |
| 23 | At the previous Question Time I was asked about the lavatories at Stratford station . |
| 24 | AS festival chairman I was already very heartened , before a note had been played , to see a 60 strong orchestra assembling before an all-but capacity audience on Thursday . |
| 25 | The only time I 've ever frozen in an exam was when I 'd gone for three exams solid without kip , one after the other , and I just brain and the other ones were a real struggle and I had to graft my marks out of solid granite y'know I was chiselling away . |
| 26 | On a recent Kilroy programme I was asked to represent the views of working mothers in both my professional capacity as editor of SHE and personal capacity as mother of four-year-old Thomas . |
| 27 | And er of course on the coun town council I was also er on the county council because the proportional representation of the area Galashiels held the whole , fifteen councillors were on the county council . |
| 28 | I could not be happy doing that , but as a pop singer I was in my element , because really all I d I did n't even think of it as singing , I thought of it , when I performed on stage as a pop singer I just thought of of it really of making love to the audience . |
| 29 | A less exacting tour would be good for blending a team and producing the kind of team spirit I was lucky enough to sense when I played under John Dawes . |
| 30 | So yeah erm so erm tt er yeah so oh that reminds me I think I may have left something in the lecture theatre I was in this morning , oh my God it was a letter from somebody yes I have , oh shit ! |