Example sentences of "[subord] i [was/were] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For reasons which are too complicated to bother with , I had left Scotland , where I was for Christmas , on December 30th to go to the Isle of Wight and spend that most braw , bricht , moonlicht and Caledonian of celebrations , Hogmanay in the Deep South . |
| 2 | And if I carry on with this relationship I shall just end up where I was in New York , miserable , unhappy , alone . |
| 3 | Although I was at art school for four years , I was hardly ever there , I always worked at home . |
| 4 | Although I was in pain I was conscious and can remember seeing Callanish itself . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm lighter now than I was at Tottenham . |
| 6 | So what if I am an even worse footballer now than I was at school . |
| 7 | I never expect to be more moved by a man and a horse than I was by Winter and Mandarin this afternoon . |
| 8 | My batman , who is a positive Jeeves , is with me and , truly , I am far less aware of being at war than I was in England . |
| 9 | I was satisfied that the Luciferi had killed her and I was determined , in my own cowardly way , to exact revenge once I was in France . |
| 10 | I never asked her for total commitment ( after all , if I were into monogamy would I have done such a good job of dangling that little Limnititzker tsatskeleh in front of her nose ? ) , but I would have hoped the woman would stand by me in a crisis . |
| 11 | ‘ If I were on holiday , Nigel would be the first person I 'd contact when I got back . |
| 12 | He said : ‘ If I were to single out any one project as a model of its kind , it is the car park in Chichester . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Well , you see — I thought I explained this to you — if I were to eidetik now I would go into a kind of a trance . |
| 14 | ‘ I wo n't deny that if I were in London and war broke out I 'd probably join up . |
| 15 | but you 're on about something else , you said the first thing I 'd do , that 's got nothing to do with Harold Wilson the first thing I if I were in power |
| 16 | if I was at Colchester with . |
| 17 | I 'd just feel more secure if I was at home . ’ |
| 18 | Well I know that if I was at work . |
| 19 | If I was to sort of pinch the muscle at the back here ? |
| 20 | I know I would get a bit excited if if I was on T V. |
| 21 | Maybe if I was on Sandøya when winter came , when the sun went in for two or three months , when all the water froze , when ice covered the ground and fishing was a risky business of frozen fingers and ears , on water in which survival was measured in seconds , I would be less romantic about it . |
| 22 | I knew that if I was with prostitutes it would be very difficult for me to get into the drug community and be accepted . ’ |
| 23 | Anyway , this man came up to where I was standing with my mother , and asked if I was for hire . |
| 24 | He said I remembered last night he said if I was in bed I was gon na get wet . |
| 25 | Well now , during this twelve months I went out on the beats etcetera , I just merely picked it up , if I was in doubt about anything my sergeant would put me right and the atmosphere , the amount of discipline was quite severe , for instance , I always , we had always to parade at least ten minutes before the hour to be acquainted with what had happened since we were last on duty . |
| 26 | Er if I was in power I 'd put a tax on every child after two I would have taxed you out of existence Ellen . |
| 27 | But a spokeswoman for the Howard League for Penal Reform fumed : ‘ If I was in jail I would n't want people paying money to come and look at me as if I was in a zoo . ’ |
| 28 | Storying is involved in such private , internal activities as dreaming and fantasizing : ‘ If I was in charge for a day , I 'd … ’ ; |
| 29 | An eight year old , if I ruled the world , if I was in charge this is how I would organize things and then and I believe , what I believe in . |
| 30 | If I was in charge on the Brit side , I 'd give a little rope , let things get started , then arrest everybody in sight . |