Example sentences of "i [was/were] [vb pp] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , on the other side of the door he was impatiently eyeing , Karen and I were locked in a windowless room about five feet by three , with no possibility of escape short of flushing ourselves down the lavatory . |
| 2 | He said : ‘ I was intrigued to read in the Observer newspaper that the Chancellor and I were engaged in a furious row on this subject . |
| 3 | ‘ However , what upsets me is that I have heard unconfirmed rumours that some of the riders were threatening to pull out if I were put in the third row of the grid as was at first planned . |
| 4 | I tried to push her knees round but there was n't enough room ; I was wedged in the doorway , her arm still half round my neck . |
| 5 | I was afraid that I was lost in the snow . ’ |
| 6 | I laid it on the floor and I was hit in the back . |
| 7 | I was kicked in the back in the melee . |
| 8 | I was dressed in a heavy winter coat and still wore my gloves . |
| 9 | Dad , Jack and Charlie just wore a black armband each with their Sunday suits , and I was dressed in a white lace dress with a wide black sash of silk ribbon . |
| 10 | I was dressed in a cream linen suit with a light grey silk blouse . |
| 11 | I was dressed in a stiff new black suit , a starched white shirt with ruffles , a black bowtie and gleaming black shoes . |
| 12 | Soon I was dressed in the King 's clothes , the horses were ready and we were on our way . |
| 13 | I was stabbed in the back because I do n't have those problems with Steve . |
| 14 | I was placed in a good watching position and given instructions on how to clap my hands . |
| 15 | ‘ At 17 I was placed in a mental hospital for two days . |
| 16 | I was placed in an express stream , specialized in arts subjects , after four years took nine subjects in the School Certificate , and then specialized still further to take English , history , and French for two years in the sixth form . |
| 17 | Within a short time , I was placed in the care of Miss Flett , my first teacher . |
| 18 | When this was first published ( Hawkes and Hull , 1947 ) , Period I was placed in the bracket AD 10 — 42 , on the basis of Tiberian sigillata and Arretine wares , and one interesting result of this was to date the Roman pottery from Bagendon to the pre-conquest period ( Clifford , 1961 , 257 ) . |
| 19 | I was born in a barn , never knew my father , but was a very goodlooking baby — I could 've won prizes . |
| 20 | I 've always owned apartments because I was born in a tenement in Glasgow and I like flat-life. , If he has one regret it is that government never saw fit to offer him another major job as challenging as his chairmanship of British Steel when he gave it up in 1976 . |
| 21 | I was born in a small town called Tettnang which is fairly close to the Austrian border . |
| 22 | I was born in a small house in Ireland . |
| 23 | ‘ I was born in a place of shadows , of memories , of decline . |
| 24 | When I told them that I was born in a similar bed and had become a doctor afterwards they were more convinced . |
| 25 | I was born in a place called Denham . |
| 26 | I was born in a hole , Thing ! |
| 27 | I talked to Mum , and she tried to think back to the day she met Elaine , and she remembered I was born in a nursing home in Birkleigh . |
| 28 | I was born in the rooms above this shop . ’ |
| 29 | The last time we came across this one that said ‘ I was born in the country and I know the code . ’ |
| 30 | I understood what I had seen in the dream when I learned the words " gaberdine " and " mahogany " ; and I was born in the year of the New Look , understood by 1951 and the birth of my sister , that dresses needing twenty yards for a skirt were items as expensive as children — more expensive really , because after 1948 babies came relatively cheap , on tides of free milk and orange juice , but good cloth in any quantity was hard to find for a very long time . |