Example sentences of "i [conj] i was [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm I if I was talking to an audience in the United States , you 'd probably have a somewhat different approach cos over there they seem to throw their desktop devices away every two or three years and replace them with brand new technology . |
| 2 | Er I I could n't tell you off the top of me head I because I was working on it till half past midnight . |
| 3 | As I as I was talking about for a new pattern |
| 4 | It suddenly became clear to me that I was assumed to be equally as wilfully ignorant . |
| 5 | We drank tea , and very often I would arrive some five to ten minutes earlier than the appointed time , so the maid would tell me that I was to wait as madame was still resting . |
| 6 | She was screaming at me that I was going to prison , ’ said Falati . |
| 7 | As I was giving this description it came to me that I was talking about someone else . |
| 8 | I mean , th the other aspect of the , of the fif the other aspect of the , the brewery and me that I was talking about , er I 'm thinking about is that we we could do with you know , okay those , th those figures are I mean , unless they 're really realistic it 's gon na be you know , six months or so |
| 9 | I tried to get up but my legs were pulled from under me and I was kicked by my opponent . |
| 10 | Micheline sounded excited to hear from me and I was invited to the group 's meeting a few weeks later . |
| 11 | There were a few of them who put it straight at me and I was forced into getting into rows . |
| 12 | Erm Ian left that with me and I was to speak to Bob before Bob gave it to because it was n't very good . |
| 13 | cos at the weekend I did really well cos I got a couple done at youth club and a couple done at work I thought , yeah , I was doing really well but Monday I forgot to bring the spare batteries which was a bit divvy of me and I was gon na record it all during sewing Tuesday I went to placement |
| 14 | For instance , once when a friend from Australia was coming to stay with me , she asked me if I was going to sleep with her . |
| 15 | ‘ Finnan asked me if I was spoken for by you . ’ |
| 16 | Oh you wanted to wave to me cos I was gon na ask you to erm get into the second carriage all the time . |
| 17 | She hardly noticed me but I was fascinated by her . |
| 18 | And we when we came of age puberty I was frightened to death me because I was sitting on the bea we were playing on the beach still a child of twelve cos we still went about with little socks on at twelve in them days . |
| 19 | ‘ Morton was a great stepping stone for me because I was working under Hal and an experienced board of directors . |
| 20 | Just as Sgt Wilson 's thesis was channelled to me because I was known to be interested in research , so many police research departments now get allocated the task of reading the essays submitted by sergeants and inspectors for NEBS or DMS qualifications . |
| 21 | Violet Sangston found me while I was searching for a hiding-place . |
| 22 | He tried so hard to help me while I was hurting in the hours it took to reach England ’ . |
| 23 | Algy used up his measure of luck , I was then given a super navigator with only the sharpest of pencils and the instinct of a homing pigeon who took me through my tour ; he perished the first time he New without me after I was hijacked to Bennett 's staff . |
| 24 | " Well , she waylaid me as I was leaving after seeing your Toby , and asked me to give you a message . |
| 25 | This thought occurred to me as I was reflecting on an article which suggested that the industry 's problems of yesterday were very much the same as those of today and that no real progress was possible because of the vested interest of the institutions of the industry . |
| 26 | Cassock and surplice , a black cassock and white surplice once I told you that my grandmother was once living with us , she used to delight in washing my surplice and ironing it up except me when I was singing in the choir , I did n't take a , the treble solos , that was after the choir used to sister of ours at least oh twenty men , and as many lads and youths the as I say Johnny was in the choir there was er the two brothers and there was Dick was a incense boy and his father was a manager to go in the , he used to have a red cassock and surplice , but he used to Dick 's dad was the incense swinger and they used to go about swinging incense and that , I do n't suppose they do that at all now , but er your first job as a choirboy was to pump the organ it , have you ever been in the church ? |
| 27 | There 's only one thing that struck me when I was reading through it but a as I say , we we got to look at this from point of view are we going to date this as it lies at the present moment and add to it pieces that we want , or do we start off by having the pieces o i its its now whe w w |
| 28 | One evening a girl jumped on me when I was lying on my bed in my cubicle . |
| 29 | A few years later Enright came to see me when I was working in Kuala Lumpur and he was Professor in Singapore . |
| 30 | I have quite a few contacts — people who knew me when I was designing for Carnega — and they have been very encouraging . |