Example sentences of "[subord] i [was/were] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After that came Sleetburn , where I was born on 1 August 1926 , which was owned by a William Hutchinson when we lived there . |
| 2 | ‘ I have never sought an honour in my life — I just did what I could for my home village where I was born and raised . |
| 3 | When I first moved from India ( where I was born ) to England , I obviously had a great tan , and I got called ‘ Indibum ’ and all.that . |
| 4 | In Mongu Town , where I was born , there lived a merry maid , up high in banana tree ! ’ |
| 5 | No idea where I was born . |
| 6 | In Scarlet Town , where I was born |
| 7 | Well where I was born in Needham Market |
| 8 | ‘ Or the bit of land where I was born , ’ she added lamely . |
| 9 | I thought we 'd got such a good start , knowing my mother 's name and where I was born . ’ |
| 10 | Eventually I went along to the British Association of Psychotherapists , where I was assessed and asked if I wanted to see a male or a female therapist . |
| 11 | She forced me back into the hall , where I was bound to run into Father . |
| 12 | After the game I immediately went to hospital , where I was detained overnight . |
| 13 | ‘ There 's a cellar with a trap door under that bit where I was locked in . |
| 14 | I had an alarming reading for an Agatha Christie film where I was given several sheets of script to sight read without any logical link up in the scenes being read and no-one to read with , except an office assistant who could n't read dialogue . |
| 15 | I stayed there only a few days , and then for some reason I was removed to the Colegio Fray Luis de Leon , where I was given a somewhat larger and more comfortable room . |
| 16 | Some sympathetic mothers covered it with bandages and bulging dressings and I was driven to the doctors ' where I was given a more impressive bandage , leaving my finger looking the size of a small banana . |
| 17 | We inched again past the thundering monster and its second string to the rear , and emerged at last into the clattering reverberating peace of the baggage car where I was reunited with my waistcoat . |
| 18 | I 'd only been there about five minutes when they came to escort me off down to Bleak House , where I was stripped naked and given a blanket and put into a cell . |
| 19 | For some months I worked in the Information Department of the British Embassy , where I was engaged in propaganda , which included writing leaders for the Iraq Times . |
| 20 | On Robin Tavistock 's table , where I was honoured to be seated , was a superb square birthday cake , iced in Robin 's racing colours , with fifty tiny candles in miniature gold candelabras . |
| 21 | They drove me back to the Ministry , where I was questioned by an officer I 'd never seen before , a colonel . |
| 22 | MY MOST vivid memory of Shingle Street , where I was stationed between July and November 1940 , was the issue of … 300 Canadian Ross rifles to our Company together with … 303 ammunition that did n't fit the breech . |
| 23 | He had been interested in tramps since childhood — ' I love a public road' ; he had read Crabbe 's description of a workhouse at school and had been shocked by the confinement of the mentally ill ‘ inasmuch as idiots and lunatics among the humbler classes of society were not to be found in Workhouses — in the parts of the North where I was brought up , — but were mostly at large ’ . |
| 24 | Another officer was called , and I was carried away , with much clanking of keys , eventually to find myself in a small room , where I was dumped in a negligent way on a table . |
| 25 | He immediately took to his heels with is case of cigarettes and led me a merry dance away from the docks , through a council estate , finally finishing up on the perimeter track of Ipswich Airport where I was rescued in the nick of time by a squad car full of policemen just as I was about to be filled in by the burly seaman . |
| 26 | R.B. And of course where I was sat you see you were waving your hands through the air and I noticed it … |
| 27 | Since Dornie was now out of the question , I went on to the Kintail Lodge Hotel , where I was admitted and taken up to a single room which , mercifully , was furnished with an electric fire . |
| 28 | ‘ A little bit of it was brought into the very first episode , the pilot , where I was allowed to play her slightly weird . |
| 29 | Whether that was down to the powers that be I do n't know ; perhaps they were teaching me a lesson for daring to complain about where I was put . |
| 30 | The second , where I was held , was filled with Amal prisoners taken in the fighting and with local Lebanese hostages . |