Example sentences of "i [was/were] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Listen lawman , I wuz brought up on the streets .
2 After that win , Hope 's family and supporters celebrated with champagne in the dressing room and Lawless recalled : ‘ We only had a few glasses and Mo and I were drinking out of the same one .
3 My brother and I were brought up in the Catholic faith .
4 I were knocked back on the bloody floor .
5 Through the communicating voice tube I was invited up to the bridge .
6 She was hard at work in her jealously private workshop , though she called in briefly at the library from time to time , and I was invited back to the Lodge for meals some evenings .
7 At eighteen , I was called up for the Army and I was three years there .
8 It happened that I was called back to the farm on the following Thursday to " cleanse " a cow and was in the byre when Dodson the drover called to pick up Blossom .
9 She explained : ‘ I was called in at the last minute to help style a photographic session for Kylie about 18 months ago and it went from there .
10 And I was looking out through the door and you have n't got five minutes longer .
11 Larry Cummins recollected , ‘ I was looking out of the window while seated at my navigator 's table , and I saw a sizeable hole suddenly appear in the left wing .
12 One Sunday morning , when I was looking out of the window , I saw Mme Guérigny leave church and walk from the rue de Fleuve along the rue Victorie towards Bluot 's , and return with a box nicely wrapped and tied with gold string .
13 " I 'm afraid of what she 'll do , " the man says when I was looking in through the window , and then the other woman goes up to him and starts loving him .
14 Can I just ask a question to start with because I was messing around with the camera and was it that he ha that he had no private pension policies at all ?
15 That 's why I was messing about with the .
16 The fact was that all sorts of strange gear-shifts were taking place within my psyche , and I was eaten up by the morbid drama of Frankenstein .
17 I had thought I might stroll out towards the famous Liseberg Gardens , but I got no more than a couple of hundred yards before I was turned back by the pitiless downpour .
18 It was a relief when I was moved on to the Sports Desk ; these were gains and losses of a different kind and they did n't involve people getting killed .
19 ‘ This morning ( 20 February ) I was moved back into the ward as I am now off the danger list .
20 ‘ I have n't a clue — I was freaking out at the time .
21 I was dragged out of the cave , through the waterfall , to lie on my back gazing up at the fast-moving clouds in the blue sky ; and I thought to myself , Those clouds are free , just as I was until now .
22 I was dragged back into the boat almost immediately .
23 As I was swept along by the noisy laughing crowd out into the tropical evening I persistently wanted to know what had happened to the dog .
24 I only explained I was listening in at the time .
25 ‘ I said that if I was turfed out by the trade union vote I would see Neil Kinnock and we would then both issue a statement afterwards , ’ he said .
26 I was fed up with the European promoters who seemed obsessed by the American sprinters .
27 I was fed up with the yucky mouldy silicone round the edge and reckoned a proper job should be done on it .
28 You said er , I told , I told him I was fed up with the General Secretary of this union that had n't given us any backing and you said sorry Phil , but I 'm not the General Secretary .
29 I was dotting about behind the wicket .
30 It must have been then that I was blown up by the land-mine , which may well have knocked out Private Prescott as well . ’
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