Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] i was " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said nothing to me and after rehearsals I was still standing there ; I 'd done nothing all morning , and she called me into the office . |
| 2 | Cos I was asking , for a number of reasons I was asking for floor plans for our , you see . |
| 3 | I think it was his fourth , but as I had been a child during this proliferation of fiancées I was n't certain . |
| 4 | When studying the electromagnetic properties of dielectrics I was very reluctant to get involved with the physics of dielectrics . |
| 5 | After a couple of minutes I was OK . |
| 6 | I was back to visit it because Ben Tee , via the falls , was one of a series of outings I was proposing for a book of Lochaber walks , and despite all my nosing about I was not prepared to describe things without another visit . |
| 7 | In command of a squad of sub-agents I was subordinate to the late Captain P. W. Keating , 2nd R.U.R. ’ |
| 8 | It was as if he were building up his own mental data bank of the organisation 's inter-personal relationship patterns , which was a form of words I was sure he would understand . |
| 9 | Andy was fourteen , I 'd just turned thirteen and was proud of my new status as a teenager ( and , as usual , of the fact that for the next couple of months I was only a year younger than Andy ) . |
| 10 | I had a very strong idea of what I wanted , even through I had plenty of photos : I knew exactly the kind of movements I was looking for , I 'm glad we did it in two — I do n't think the cricketer would 've been very keen to do it again ! ’ |
| 11 | over a number of years I was subjected to domestic violence , erm , the last time I left I did n't report it right away , morally it was my son , I did n't want to drag him through the court , but when I did I was told no , your too late , you will just be seen as a woman scorned , your trying to get revenge , and that 's it , no , I 'm not taking a statement . |
| 12 | The logic of the inhibitor approach is obvious , but for a number of years I was reluctant to get involved in doing such experiments , as it was n't clear to me that using broad spectrum inhibitors such as those for protein synthesis would tell me anything precise about the biochemical processes I was trying to unpick . |
| 13 | I was happy as pop singer , the last couple of years I was n't happy when I ceased to be a pop singer and I was er headed on a road of being an entertainer . |
| 14 | Then , since then , with me being sick that time and what have you , she was in Cornwall the week her , the couple of weeks I was in |
| 15 | For a couple of days I was extremely nervous . |
| 16 | Terry and I were worst hit and for a couple of days I was left off the chain so that I could use the toilet whenever I needed . |
| 17 | talking of rejects I was I was conned into going down to Stoke yesterday to look at the Portmeirion seconds shop . |
| 18 | The sort of things I was doing seemed to be difficult for difficult 's sake ; it was like , ‘ If anybody likes it , then it has to be crap ! ’ |
| 19 | Erm Oh dear this is going to be a long list of things I was supposed to do but did n't . |
| 20 | Like millions of Americans I was watching the debate on television and , like millions of Americans , I leapt out of my seat yelling something like : ‘ I ca n't believe he said that … |
| 21 | ‘ But then the team suffered a run of injuries and after only a handful of matches I was back on the field . ’ |
| 22 | I showed him the continually growing pile of newspapers I was conscientiously accumulating in my sitting-room . |
| 23 | By the time Aunt Harriet had served a second round of muffins I was n't at all surprised to see my mother happily nodding her approval . |
| 24 | If I 'd been a religious and I would have thanked one god or another for the large number of kilocreds I was soon to collect , which would keep me from any kind of poverty for a long time . |
| 25 | ‘ For weeks I was looking into the face of every stranger thinking ‘ you could be the one that killed my Brian ’ , ’ said Joan . |
| 26 | So far from craving for crumpets I was firmly resisting repatriation and trying hard to stay where I was ; the kindness of friends enabled me to do so . |
| 27 | For years I was trying to get him to go part time but he always put it off . |
| 28 | Well I went to , erm they would n't let me go to work on the aircraft so I left and I went to work and the Walsall Electric Company , it was within Walsall and I was there when V E day happened and er a pal of mine said he knew where I could get this job and oh it was travelling about which I enjoyed and er I , I went then to work for Elwells I was there until I went in the army , but they were very much heavy transport and in those days the opencast mining started happening as well and we were taking diggers about bulldozers and tractors , scrapers for the opencast mining and I remember , in the bad winter of forty-seven , they , they took up a big part of Park , trees and everything and they never found a bit of coal and yet when started levelling off at Darleston , for Bentley Garden Village as it was then called , er they were getting coal out and people were going up with prams , barrows and everything and fetching it all out it was only being levelled for building work , and fetching coal , natural coal off Bentley Common the erm I 've wandering off away from the airport a bit have n't I ? |
| 29 | Within hours I was flying over it . |
| 30 | Within minutes I was inside the camp , where I hoped to meet the tinkers who had tried to rob me at Killorglin . |