Example sentences of "i [be] [prep] [adv] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | [ Under the Italian dual-control tradition ] when everything goes of its own accord , I am in quite another world . |
| 2 | I was over there most days when I was a boy . ’ |
| 3 | Hurt by ‘ the ungenerous treatment which I met with from that very sex whose sufferings I was at so much pains to relieve ’ , he was glad to leave Aberdeen when recalled to active duty in the Royal Navy . |
| 4 | ‘ Because I was for so many years a one man operation , ’ he says , ‘ I was always right at the centre of things . |
| 5 | I bit the shell of one and gave the kernel to her , and then bit another and pretended it had broken one of my teeth and I was in too much pain . ’ |
| 6 | Lorry driver Bill , 51 , of Merthyr Tydfil , South Wales , said yesterday : ‘ I was in so much pain I could n't dress myself after I had been examined and needed a wheelchair . ’ |