Example sentences of "i was [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was horn in March 1947 , at the peak of the Bulge : more babies horn that month than ever before or after , and carried through the terrible winter of 1946–47 . |
| 2 | Before I was Minister of Health , I was inclined to be sceptical of the utility of this hierarchy , especially of the tier interposed between the minister and the direct administration of the hospitals . |
| 3 | I would have given my right arm to have achieved such an agreement when I was Minister for Aviation between 1984 and 1987 . |
| 4 | The early experience of ESAs that I had when I was Minister for Agriculture , Fisheries and Food showed the policy to be important , helpful and constructive . |
| 5 | I 've spent 13 years travelling the world with badminton — I was coach to the Australian side at the last World Championships — and it will be nice to spend some time at home . |
| 6 | ‘ I delivered hundreds , and I met hundreds more while I was matron of Thorn House . |
| 7 | There was much talk when I was boy of Haskala - which is civic freedom , ja ? |
| 8 | When we moved here I was surround by sheep now I find I am surrounded by a sunday market , a bulldog bash , drag racing and now a pop festival . ’ |
| 9 | I was partway outside a takeaway pizza napoletana |
| 10 | I was secretary for seven year eh . |
| 11 | I worked in quite a few departments in the Co-op erm and I was secretary to the education er in those days , whereas Miss member relations er in the , when I was there we were just education department with an educational secretary and erm then , he , we did all the staff training as well . |
| 12 | I was secretary of the working party which produced the statement . |
| 13 | I was secretary of the Society of Reason . |
| 14 | When I was Secretary of State for Trade and Industry most of those Departments were in London . |
| 15 | The vicar had asked me in the war to do this and erm I was secretary of that and I used to say er , you know you could only do so much because we was n't like housewives today . |
| 16 | Er as regards to the team that was gon na come down from London and I was Secretary of the Football Club at that time . |
| 17 | When I was Secretary of State for Education and Science I recall being concerned about the implications of some methods of teaching reading if they are followed too acutely — in other words , without a balance of reading methods . |
| 18 | I was Secretary of the miner 's support group that was set up in Blaenau during the year long miner 's s strike where we collected a lot of food and twinned with a town down in South Wales and made a lot of new friends . |
| 19 | Cos I was driver at at the time . |
| 20 | And then I got on to the , I was convenor of the housing allocation committee for very many years . |
| 21 | Their chaos and squalor did not compare well with the pristine beauty of Jerba and , as a lone male out of season , I was prey to a horde of street hustlers . |
| 22 | Malc was still struggling to revive our ailing business , leaving me to travel alone and , despite my well-earned local reputation for purity — ‘ The only place Marti Caine performs is on stage ’ — I was prey to the occasional foreign wolf . |
| 23 | When I was Chairman of the Crofters Commission we carried out a modest experiment in encouraging school children in crofting areas to improve the appearance of their villages . |
| 24 | ‘ When I was chairman of the party , that man would have been sacked , ’ Lord Tebbit said . |
| 25 | Moreover , I was chairman of the Child Poverty Action Group at the time when you were commissioned to do research and prepare a pamphlet on ‘ Families with low income in London . ’ |
| 26 | I was er Chairman of Public Health and various chim , I was Chairman of the Road Safety , which I was very interested in I was very road safety conscious and we each were given a job which we tried to do the best we could with and then we well , whatever we were asked to do we began to make a good town , you know ? |
| 27 | And I was chairman of it for about six years or so before the council broke up . |
| 28 | Er I was chairman of that committee as well , View when , when , during quite a long period , until the whole system was changed to the council system like and went onto er and er there was one of our , our er officer who was in charge of welfare was a Mr who had a great knowledge of both Selkirk and Galashiels and the country and er he was known by everybody . |
| 29 | ‘ You 'd just found out I was chairman of an even bigger company than Swift ! ’ he bit out . |
| 30 | I was confession in the remember rightly ? |