Example sentences of "[conj] i was at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A little later , I stood nervously beside my bag , hoping that I was at the right bus stop for Sligo . |
| 2 | When I bought my first company and began to build up the business , I had to live in the city , so that I was at the centre of things . |
| 3 | I mean I 've just , but all the years that I was at the home every day I would say hello Flo , hello Elsie how are you ? |
| 4 | At the end of this fourth volume , I am still not certain whether I have been reading about a great man , any more than I was at the end of the third volume , or the second , or the first . |
| 5 | ‘ Shall we say that I 'm less uncertain than I was at the beginning . ’ |
| 6 | I 've never been soooo pissed off at a game than I was at the rangers game at Elland Road . |
| 7 | and I was at the bottom |
| 8 | I felt as if I was at the end of a long tunnel where someone was kicking my legs . |
| 9 | Thank you Chair , as the chair of that meeting yesterday , I was wondering if I was at the same committee as this m these minutes came from , because when I read the minutes two and three , I certainly did n't remember us passing those . |
| 10 | I 'm sure they 're the nicest guys in the world , but I was at the MTV awards in America when they were trying to do a soundcheck , and they could n't do a song because their tapes were n't working . |
| 11 | Leeds ' disallowed first half goal , just after the canaries ' one , looked good to me but I was at the other end of the pitch peering through the floodlit rainstorm . |
| 12 | Well not cos I felt like it but I was at the lights in Bromley this bloke , this , was stand- , sort of kept staring at my front passenger side wheel . |
| 13 | I could just hear because I was at the front of the class . |
| 14 | I 've brought him , I 've brought him at half five , because I was at the bus stop , leaning on the lamp-post and it was about twenty five past , and then he did n't come along to the next stop by and it got to twenty five |
| 15 | I was , however , devoted to the three dogs I owned while I was at The Milebrook . |
| 16 | While I was at the local Further Education College I met Michael . |
| 17 | All I knew was that one afternoon while I was at the office in London someone poured petrol through my letter-box at Seaview , along with a note warning me that if I did n't get out of G.W. Fashions there would be other similarly unpleasant incidents to look forward to , and that next time the petrol would be accompanied by a lighted rag . ’ |
| 18 | It happened , however , that while I was at the College I had been approached by the Bristol University Board of Extra-Mural Studies , where a post was for the moment vacant organizing adult education work chiefly in Wiltshire . |
| 19 | It is , however , many years since I was at the Department of Transport , so I shall concentrate on education this evening . |
| 20 | Indeed when I was at the police college in 1987 and Jones was on the Senior Command Course prior to taking up a position as assistant chief constable , I took a straw poll among my immediate colleagues to see what influence such books achieve . |
| 21 | When I was at the Transport Department , my aim was a good rail service for the public and as efficient a service as possible . |
| 22 | I have always been particularly grateful to Fred for this generous and helpful boost when I was at the crossroads . |
| 23 | When I was at the GLC , Ken Livingstone was in charge and I thought it was the beginning of Utopia , so many wonderful things were happening at last . |
| 24 | When I was at the centre , they do n't encourage you to stop smoking , stop drinking coffee , or lose weight . |
| 25 | Yes , ma'am , I understand ; and I have worked with children before … well , when I was at the nuns ’ school , it was part of the older pupils ' duty to be in charge of two or three of the younger ones to see they washed properly and … well , things like that , and just before I left I was doing this . ’ |
| 26 | When I was at the Post Office . |
| 27 | ‘ Well — when I was at the camp on Saturday night , we were talking about dreams . ’ |
| 28 | But I can remember once when I was at the school Mrs was our music teacher and we were to go from doh to far , you know doh to far , and they used to s , she used to say listen to Mabel , Mabel 's the only one one of you that can go from doh to far . |
| 29 | When I was at the garage getting the petrol I give them , signed the cheque and they put the cheque through the cheque machine printing it out and that and er they 've got a free offer at the moment . |
| 30 | When I was at the , I put worms in a jam jar . |