Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] i was [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stayed right where I was on the floor telling myself I 'd be fine in just a few minutes . |
| 2 | The devil of it was the vehicle was a left-hand drive , so that I was on the side that would go over the edge first . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But then I would read it , so if I was in the theatre I would read that so I would know that |
| 5 | Marriage is a business , and after the bed business is over you 've often got twenty-three hours in the day to live with your partner ; especially , that is , if you 're working together like I was with him . |
| 6 | And er so while I was in this shop I I sold this chap five hundred bundles of fire wood you see ? |
| 7 | Not so long since I was in here myself , but I never dreamed Willis had not quite known what to bring , so he 'd decided on a packet of Whiffs . |
| 8 | tell you what it seems ages since I was in the first year , but not very long since I was in the second year |
| 9 | ‘ She did it all while I was in Bamford shopping this morning . |
| 10 | I knew I would never finish a book so long as I was on the North Shore , either . |
| 11 | He was black , and perhaps as I was in trousers , he thought I might have known Sir Richard Whittington . |
| 12 | But it was only when I was in bed that night and unable to sleep that I realised the meaning of my horrified reaction : there would be another time , after I was dead , when I would not exist , when my consciousness would be extinguished . |
| 13 | They were strict enough when I was in , when I flying , never mind about anything else . |
| 14 | I 'm amazingly affluent compared with a few years ago , especially when I was on the dole for three years . |
| 15 | The End was somewhere the Rejects would n't have been seen dead , so when I was in my ambitious , conventional mood , that made it more attractive . |
| 16 | The morning was wasting away and I was on a promise to deliver women for Simon down in Southwark . |
| 17 | The two men were alone together indoors and I was on the terrace . |
| 18 | Just as I was about ashore , I bent down to pick up the ball , getting a wet sleeve in the process . |
| 19 | But even I could n't blame him for the phone ringing just as I was at the front door . |
| 20 | But just as I was on the point of giving up , the honking bus swerved past me . |
| 21 | ‘ He has been seized with his fits three times in the space of seven days , ’ Coleridge wrote to Joseph Cottle on 15 March ; ‘ and just as I was in bed , last night , I was called up again — and from 12 o clock at night to five this morning he remained in one continued state of agoniz 'd Delirium . ’ |
| 22 | I was dragged out of the cave , through the waterfall , to lie on my back gazing up at the fast-moving clouds in the blue sky ; and I thought to myself , Those clouds are free , just as I was until now . |
| 23 | He always said he did best when I was with him . |
| 24 | I would have picked number one you see and erm of course there was the er I knew the name Barbara erm and knew she 'd got a shop called Hitched in Northampton er er anyway when I was in the library I thought well I 'll just see if Hitched is in the telephone book you see , and it was . |
| 25 | And for another thing , he began to take an interest in me just when I was on the rebound from a very unhappy love affair — the kind of let-down that alters not just your life but even your nature . |
| 26 | I walked along the road while Frankland was watching me , but as soon as I was round the corner , I went towards the hill where we had seen the boy . |
| 27 | I du n no , whenever I 'm with her though I 'm always with you as well , like if I was with her right on her own |
| 28 | This happened once while I was at Binbrook , and we were all jailed for a week — well , con fined to our quarters , really , but it amounted to the same thing . |
| 29 | He said : ‘ I have enjoyed dressing up like a woman , making myself up and talking like them ever since I was in school . ’ |
| 30 | Once when I was at school he told me that I should spend the entire summer working on improving my passing off my left hand and my kicking off my left foot . |