Example sentences of "i [was/were] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Bedfield was the village I was living in at the time . |
| 32 | For this print , I was thinking back to the patterns of light and shade created by strong sunlight . ’ |
| 33 | I was flying back on the 9am British Airways shuttle from the EC Summit on Saturday morning . |
| 34 | There was also the night when I was buzzing round in the office car , making the routine late calls at the district police stations and ambulance headquarters in Cardiff , just before midnight . |
| 35 | Sue likes me … lots of people like me … when I was helping out at the meat counter the other week , Jim said we should go bowling one night . |
| 36 | The importance of this discovery can not be over-estimated , for through it I was led on to the further discovery of the Primary Control of the workings of all the mechanisms of the human organisms , and this marked the first important stage of my investigation . |
| 37 | Whatever he heard me say , some time later I was led out of the doors and taken to rooms they said were mine , as if they were pleased about it . |
| 38 | It was a warm , sunny june day in Fontanellato and I was riding out into the country on my bicycle when another cyclist gave me the news . |
| 39 | Three days later I was limping back from the village and was about half a mile from home when I saw a movement in the hedge . |
| 40 | ‘ As it was , I was referred back by the clinic a week later because of blood pressure problems and the midwife kept a check on me . |
| 41 | ‘ I was kneeling down on the beach beside a lake when I felt this appallingly painful tingling sensation in my knee . |
| 42 | ‘ I was pushed out into the garden , but I stayed to watch through the window . |
| 43 | The strangers ' faces were barely visible , but from ground level ( where I was leaning out of the tent ) I could see that three of them were wearing football boots . |
| 44 | And , without further ado , I was marched back into the hall , placed on the dais , the heralds braying on their trumpets . |
| 45 | I realized early on how much I was getting out of the callers and the fact that some of them seemed to get something out of me too increased my confidence in other areas of my life . |
| 46 | ‘ When we reached here , ’ he said , ‘ I was getting out of the cart and my hat fell to the ground . |
| 47 | The idea was that when that was done , on a signal I was to open up with the Breda and shoot up the café . |
| 48 | I was operated on for the first time when I was two or three weeks old . |
| 49 | At the beginning , although I felt that I wanted to get better , I was hanging on to the secure feeling that being ill brought . |
| 50 | I was hanging on to the ledge at the deep end , arms out in the crucifix position when I saw her come out of the ladies ’ changing rooms wearing a yellow and white striped one-piece . |
| 51 | I was hanging around at the back of the church because I wanted a word with the vicar . |
| 52 | The prints were n't too bad , considering that I was hanging out of the back window of the plane with just a thin safety belt between me and the farm land 200ft below . |
| 53 | Eric was sitting in the front looking absurdly English and in the back was an old man I was taking back to the mountains . |
| 54 | ‘ I was bumped on to the rail six or seven times and I think I would have been in the first four but for that , ’ he said . |
| 55 | While all the posed pictures were being taken I was edging round among the columnists saying , " Please , give us a break , do n't put in that it happened at Drummonds . |
| 56 | I was wrapped up to the eyes when I went u down to put my walking boots on as well because they 're comfortable and there were people going going round in their shellsuits and you know I must be feeling the cold more now . |
| 57 | I was bellied up to the bar with the crowd of bobby-soxers and crewcuts . |
| 58 | Eventually I was driven back to the Noones ’ house by a blue-clad security man . |
| 59 | After thanks and apologies all round I was driven back to the Lion to find that my borrowed sheep had been sold and had disappeared . |
| 60 | Our housework was hard and long and laborious and erm we 'd got two children to look after and then I 'd got my brother who did n't leave home until he was thirty and er , you had n't got the time , you know , to do too many things , so er my interest was the young wives ' and it was really a as regards the erm the Guild itself , I was thrown in at the deep end when this lady who was with my mother , mother was treasurer , she was secretary , erm she used to come down for me and , I know you should n't canvass but she used to canvass and say erm you know the voting , you know , will you , will you come and vote ? |