Example sentences of "i was [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In addition I have learnt an enormous amount from the monthly meetings of the Education Network in London , of which I was Coordinator from 1983 to 1987 . |
| 32 | ‘ I was cook on a ship that stopped here once . |
| 33 | Twelve and thirteen and I was cook for four years there . |
| 34 | I was part of the furniture , yes , but I was more than that : I was part of the family . |
| 35 | I was part of the furniture , yes , but I was more than that : I was part of the family . |
| 36 | Since then I am called ‘ Majesty ’ and it seems to me as if I was part of a play . |
| 37 | First I would relax , lie upon a bed , although not the bed in which I normally slept , go through the breathing exercises until I felt that I was part of the bed , weightless and sinking through it . |
| 38 | But they feel that they belong to two families and , as one girl put it , ‘ I was part of that woman 's body for nine months ’ , so discovering her birth-mother 's identity seemed , to her , an urgent necessity . |
| 39 | I was part of a typical black family . |
| 40 | I was part of a small group of women who met regularly above a shabby public house in Baggot Street to talk feminism and discuss the current state of Irish politics . |
| 41 | With 115 Squadron at Marham , after doing the conversion course , I was part of the crew that took WF562 down to Odiham for the Coronation Review of the RAF , but what was not mentioned was the cleaning of the aircraft using tins of ‘ Duraglit ’ by air and ground crew before we went , only to fly through a rain storm on the way down and having to do it all over again , when we arrived . |
| 42 | I was part of the week 's news , after all . |
| 43 | This demonstrated that I was not yet a legionnaire as I had not been awarded my white képi , and as such was still an ‘ engagé volontaire ’ or recruit ; it went on to say that I had one month 's service in the Legion , and that I was part of the Squadron commanded by Capitaine Duransoy , in the section of Sergeant Major Barlerin of the 1st Foreign Cavalry Regiment . |
| 44 | I only hoped I was part of that plan . |
| 45 | ‘ I was glad I was part of a different shift . |
| 46 | I had a nasty feeling that I was part of this do-it-yourself metaphor . |
| 47 | ‘ I was a mathematics don at Cambridge living a rather sheltered life , but I was part of a group that enjoyed playing cards . |
| 48 | While there I was part of a management team that led a successful buyout of the Bricom Group from B & c . |
| 49 | Yes I was part of the firearms team that was er briefed to enter that department . |
| 50 | erm There is a general concern I think with multiple occupancy that there 's , a whole way of life of East Oxford is changing , and not for the better , and indeed I was part of this when I moved into the area ten years ago . |
| 51 | ‘ Anyway , ’ said Kevin slowly , ‘ I was thinkin of emigratin' myself . ’ |
| 52 | As she later told friends : ‘ One minute I was a nobody , the next minute I was Princess of Wales , mother , media toy , member of this family and it was just too much for one person to handle . ’ |
| 53 | You see , going back in my own experience and er did mention that I was apprentice with Vickers Armstrong realise Vickers Armstrong re pe , recruited three thousand apprentices ! |
| 54 | As it happened , as I say , I was apprentice at Vickers Armstrong and I moved on , quite obviously , to another firm who were looking for people like this . |
| 55 | I was way down the other end , so I did n't see much of it . |
| 56 | I wanted a pay rise because I found out I was way behind most of the first-team lads and barely on much more than the apprentices ' wages . |
| 57 | I was second at Cosford to Earl Tulloch , 21.9 seconds to his 21.7 . |
| 58 | At the office door I found that I was second in the queue , not first . |
| 59 | ‘ I was second in the Mediterranean Open in March and in the PGA Championship at Wentworth in May , but I did n't keep going . |
| 60 | Perhaps , in retrospect , I was over-kind in interpreting the offensive ‘ Bengali In Platforms ’ as a belated working through of petty teenage bigotry . |