Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [conj] i was [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ellen Orford in the poem is a middle-aged woman and it was fortuitous for me that I was about the right age — it 's not a part for a young soprano . |
| 2 | The DHSS reckoned someone was signing on for me while I was in prison . |
| 3 | Why , you were as hot for me as I was for you ! ’ |
| 4 | Who would look after him when I was in gaol ? |
| 5 | Once a Met Officer remarked cheerfully to me ( from the warmth and light of the office ) , that the rats were much more frightened of me than I was of them , but I noticed that he did n't take me up on my suggestion that he should come out with me and see for himself . |
| 6 | There was no danger … he was more frightened of me than I was of him … but that 's not the point … if it had been an old lady … he coulde have given her a heart attack … |
| 7 | He reminds me of me when I was like him . ’ |
| 8 | It became apparent that he was as aware of me as I was of him . |
| 9 | ‘ … burst upon the scene , and , do you know , he looked so angry that I was more frightened of him than I was of his grisly companion . |
| 10 | I mean in terms of population I think I somebody did er Strathclyde regional council used to be a client of mine when I was with Three M er well you know a client of my rep up here but er and they told me some time that I think a huge percentage of the whole of Scotland 's population |
| 11 | ‘ Immediately , though I took little notice of it when I was in Cheshire , I admit . |
| 12 | I used to get a lot of it when I was in |
| 13 | ‘ I 'll never forget that it was the RFU who got behind me when I was in trouble . |
| 14 | ‘ They were n't like you when I was at school , ’ had been his amused reaction when she had told him that she taught in the village . |
| 15 | Well not cos I felt like it but I was at the lights in Bromley this bloke , this , was stand- , sort of kept staring at my front passenger side wheel . |
| 16 | I wanted you to be as much in love with me as I was with you . ’ |
| 17 | Now children am I right in thinking that when Mrs came in and took some lessons with you when I was on a course that she taught you how to count up to thirty ? |
| 18 | ‘ I was in such shock that I wanted to phone round Julie 's friends but she had taken her contacts book with her and I was in a panic . |
| 19 | I wanted to believe you were as interested in me as I was in you , but … ’ |
| 20 | I could n't caddie for him because I was with the central-heating men . |
| 21 | Perhaps they were as eager to be without me as I was to be without them for a while . |
| 22 | Not until I arrived on the 18th tee 1-down did it suddenly occur to me that I was on the point of losing . |
| 23 | I hardly knew how I was able to face it , either then or at any other time of my life in this mocking world , but I did , though it did not seem to me that I was in any way heroic — just the opposite , in fact . |
| 24 | It proved to me that I was in earnest , that I was truly resolved . |
| 25 | It did n't occur to me that I was in labour because it was too early . |
| 26 | Leeds ' disallowed first half goal , just after the canaries ' one , looked good to me but I was at the other end of the pitch peering through the floodlit rainstorm . |
| 27 | Mrs Fairfax had written to me while I was at Gateshead , telling me that the guests had all gone , and Mr Rochester had gone to London to buy a carriage for his wedding . |
| 28 | ‘ The idea first came to me when I was at college and Paul Watson , a BBC producer , came to do a series of lectures . |
| 29 | The same restrictions were placed on me when I was in the southern province of China last year . |
| 30 | If I had to describe her , I would say that she was a sensible , down-to-earth woman , dressed plainly and cleanly , understanding what I was experiencing , yet sighing at my folly and patiently keeping an eye on me till I was in a stronger state again . |