Example sentences of "i was [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I was Been on the streets now for about eight years . |
| 2 | I think erm er I know there has been some discussion of I I about er and I put er , in this report I think all the documentation that the ministers and ministers that had already seen it and I 've explained that the big issue is that er the URC , I think a weekly account o ah of all other informations has er , worked out very on the basis of five thousand and I was been tugging you pay your car off to get that and . |
| 3 | There 's been quite a lot of comment in the press erm , on high levels of , of salary of , of remu remuneration for directors and I think it might be helpful er , if I was were t were , were to make some general remarks on the background er , of how we er , approach directors ' remuneration . |
| 4 | It was when I took my jacket off and stood before a mirror and saw for the first time that all I was was a pair of scarlet braces , that I realised that evangelism was n't enough . |
| 5 | Cos I 'd lost about half a stone in weight , and I was cut down on chocolate biscuits , and I , what I 'd been doing I was was at my tea , at five o'clock , I was eating another at ten o'clock , I reckon I was overdoing it a bit you know with the I was trying to cut down a lot |
| 6 | Well that night he walked out I was was n't I ? |
| 7 | And then i when I was was about the trout fishing in the loch here . |
| 8 | I was was with them |
| 9 | Er not really , the main source of income on the croft er when I was was er we keeping hens . |
| 10 | I think also where I was was n't like the main trading bit , I think it 's |
| 11 | It was n't that I was being purposely unfriendly , it was just that I had decided that my best chance of survival lay in my being as unobtrusive as possible . |
| 12 | I was being followed by a crowd . |
| 13 | Yet in other centuries I was being forced to omit , for sheer lack of space , figures of the highest cultural importance . |
| 14 | During my short conversation with the Colonel , I was being observed rather suspiciously by three of his Officers a few feet away , sitting on top of their slit trenches performing their ablutions . |
| 15 | But the exit was at the foot of the screen , and I was being borne up towards that great and drooling hag , away from safety , pinioned by someone I could n't see , and the witch was laughing . |
| 16 | Not being paid was n't a problem ; what was however was that I was being used for the donkey work without any consultation on the artistic side of it , And that was important to me . |
| 17 | I did n't think I was being very original any longer and I was basically administering . |
| 18 | I realised I was being deceived , ’ he told the General Medical Council 's professional conduct committee . |
| 19 | It was 1975 and I was being charged under the Obscene Publications Act and it was like the Oz trial , so I was interviewed . |
| 20 | Angie Bowie : ‘ I never realized and had never been involved in who did what , but I suppose that amounts to , if one wants to look at it from Ken 's point of view , being the fly in the ointment , or of one wants to look at it from a real point of view as , in terms of property settlement and management , that I was being David 's manager at that particular time , because it was possible for me to advise him to do something about the things that really troubled him artistically . |
| 21 | The leak was accurate and I was being forced to the floor of the House of Commons to defend a policy before it had been to Cabinet . |
| 22 | I knew I was being bewitched , laid under a spell so intensely personal , so thrilling , I did not have the power to resist it , or to judge if it were good or evil . |
| 23 | I felt that I was being turned inside out . |
| 24 | I was being accompanied by an orchestra ! |
| 25 | Soon I was being whisked back to Ballinasloe , the driver singing ‘ Red River Valley ’ for most of the way . |
| 26 | I — ‘ He broke off while I ordered rolls and coffee — ‘ I was being true to our principle , in creating a Swiss love affair for you : real people — ourselves included — but a mixture of fact and fiction . |
| 27 | As the group went on I was being truthful , I put down what I was drinking . |
| 28 | An hour later I was being monitored at the Birmingham Maternity Hospital — weak contractions confirmed in labour , I was sent to the ward in a wheelchair . |
| 29 | ‘ I was being punished for what my mother did … |
| 30 | I was being given lists of telephone numbers , people were coming up to me in the Comedy Store and saying , ‘ Eh , are you the bloke who 's doing these odd photos . |