Example sentences of "this [noun sg] i was [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought he was fun but I did n't take much notice especially since this boy I was with was angry . |
| 2 | ‘ I learned it off this actor I was in jail with once . |
| 3 | In late October he wrote again to Rohde : " This evening I was at the Euterpe Society , which has started its winter concerts , and refreshed myself with the Prelude to Tristan und Isolde as well as the Overture to Die Meistersinger . |
| 4 | This morning I was on a new one . |
| 5 | This year I was in the choir and the whole family came to watch . |
| 6 | By this time I was on my knees trying to make up my mind whether to bow my head in the direction of Japan , Taiwan , Singapore , Eindhoven or the US . |
| 7 | At this time I was on holiday and I spent the next three days redecorating my sitting room ( a boring task , but necessary ) while waiting for the G4 to harden . |
| 8 | At this time I was at a loss to understand how it managed to hover for so long in the same place . |
| 9 | Ten minutes later round went the tip again but this time I was into something bigger . |
| 10 | At this time I was in Istanbul , commissioned by Jonathan Cape to write a book about it . |
| 11 | By this time I was in secondary school . |
| 12 | I should add here that even as a junior at Halton I was in the senior cross-country team — which only people in their very last year were normally eligible to join and at this stage I was in my first year of three , I was allowed to go out on any occasion , in running gear , to train as I was a bona fide member of the team and so on one of these occasions when I was out training — I always wore a sort of towel around my neck which looked very professional at the time and quite unnecessary — I managed to conceal the altimeter , which had become very very hot property by this time because it was known that several instruments were missing and we could have a visit from the gendarme . |