Example sentences of "[noun prp] [subord] i was [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | tonight and then I 'm on me raffle next week , but after next , I mean I can stop in the next , I mean I was , I 've never been out since a week on Tuesday cos I was n't on the raffle Friday |
| 2 | ‘ I went off with Jeff because I was so angry with you . |
| 3 | Of course everyone — except , I suppose , Aunt Kit — thought that I left Richard because I was half out of my mind with distress at losing the baby , but this is not the truth , not the whole truth , anyway . |
| 4 | I remember being rather keen on Bert when I was about fifteen . |
| 5 | And er during the time I was in in Albert Street although I was still very interested in the union and on the committee I think I was president or vice president at the time , there the job for a local organizer come up . |
| 6 | In the cafe she found Fosdyke nursing a malt whisky ( 'Kept for me specially by Carlo because I was once able to do him a favour' ) and the children occupied with a Space Invader machine for which he had advanced them hundred lire pieces . |
| 7 | On the other hand , I have discoed the night away in Marina di Massa and had payment waived in Copenhagen when I was visibly kroner-less . |
| 8 | I took a basket of eggs into church last Sunday because I was so afraid I should forget to give them to old Mrs Baldwin on my way home . |
| 9 | Well , as near as possible because , erm , I mean I was appointed to , to Africa while I was still in college |
| 10 | " Well , I did have Miranda when I was very young . " |
| 11 | I married Danny because I was madly in love and wanted to share my life with him . |
| 12 | Again , I do n't know where they got their information from but I confirmed that the DEA had been running controlled deliveries through Cyprus while I was there and that its operations had been wide open from a security point of view . |
| 13 | ‘ I was born in Cheshire but emigrated to Australia when I was only 4 ! ’ |
| 14 | I had my first glimpse of the sea on a Sunday School outing to Redcar when I was about ten . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's true he was in Oxford while I was there , and the schools were no very safe place to be singing about great Llewelyn in his seven-foot grave , or making verses after the manner of Cynddelw . |
| 16 | My dad took me to watch Newcastle when I was about 10 but I could n't see because of all the people standing in front of me . |
| 17 | I stayed at the Claremont when I was down doing and I ca n't remember where it is on the street . |
| 18 | Er there were at Howar when I was there . |
| 19 | My Lords , I did not speak on the second reading of this Bill , because I spoke extremely critically on in the debate on the White Paper o on er May the 26th last year , but er I would therefore like to er commence by joining with my Right Honourable Friend Lord Whitelaw because I was so critical , in welcoming the changes which the Home Secretary has now proposed . |
| 20 | At one stage my trousers were safely in San Diego while I was still in shorts in Albuquerque . |
| 21 | Mr Lewis , the mechanic , for example , soon managed to quieten my baby daughter Rachel while I was out of the room . |
| 22 | While on the subject : I started supporting Leeds when I was about 5 . |
| 23 | All those years at the Tabard when I was so prudish . |