Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] i was [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Of course I was on the same squadron as him for a time . ’
2 Of course I was on Sunday , yes indeed .
3 Of course I was at the time .
4 Of course I was in a fever to hear again , but as his regiment was sent back into the line , I did not have further word till April , when he responded to that phrase with the comment : ‘ I think you would consider that this lily has grown into rather a thistle … seriously , though , I 'm not the same little lad you last saw ; I feel so much older because of my life in the last year . ’
5 I was nineteen — of course I was in awe of you .
6 In fact a lot of our you know a lot a lot of the their their the type of business I was in , right ? they wanted the erm home service companies but I also branched out because I 've always been connected .
7 J. had been with the now famous 617 Squadron for a time , and in talking about this he was able to furnish me with details of an incident which I had vaguely heard of while I was at Bourn .
8 On this question of construction I was in a judicial minority of one at the end of the first hearing of this appeal .
9 And then eight or nine weeks after my happy entry into College I was on the carpet — kindly chat , of course , but none the less serious for not being a court martial !
10 Erm well let's say for example I was in posted in for
11 I had lunch and then sat on the wheelbarrow swatting flies , neither willing to go further out of my way , nor to return , just in case I was on the right track .
12 In Maymyo I was at first rather at a loose end , for most of the civilian families had left , and the Establishment chaplain was there to carry on the church services and to look after the few people left .
13 Given the date , it was then a question of working backwards and consulting an old diary ; and I found that during the period in question I was in India for Panorama .
14 Before Vladmir I was on my own .
15 I caught up a bit during the '60s when I became the oldest teenager in town — in fact I was in my early thirties .
16 ‘ Not if some big flatfoot is just going to barge in on her and say I 'm shouting it all over town I was with her last night . ’
17 At break I was on duty in the corridor telling people to get out and go around to the canteen not through the school .
18 By midnight I was in an operating theatre in Inverness having an ankle fixed .
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