Example sentences of "[adv] i [was/were] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Next Friday when you go to get your money , cos I was n't always with the collier , mostly I was on the day work . |
| 2 | While all this was going on I was in the middle of trying to buy my farm back from a pension fund . |
| 3 | ‘ You 'd rather I was like Bob Hoskins in The Long Good Friday . |
| 4 | Suddenly I was on first names terms . |
| 5 | The thing that made me a little envious was this girl — she 's his assistant on this particular film — ringing up , and there was a slight chance they would be going to Switzerland that day , and suddenly I was in there again and I thought how exciting it all was and how nice it would be to go off filming again . |
| 6 | Suddenly I was in the helicopter with the doors off and a medical bag clutched in my sweaty hand , travelling at breakneck speed fifty feet above dried river beds , paddy fields , termite hills , baobab trees , beach , forest , more forest … |
| 7 | Suddenly I was in Error ! |
| 8 | Apparently I was on the edge of the crater and the main blast had gone over me . |
| 9 | If I read I like to sit up , if I start to lie down I was like this . |
| 10 | I am careful to make this only the slightest of tints , then from the top down I was in a tone of cerulean fading out into the orange . |
| 11 | Perhaps I was over reacting . |
| 12 | Yes , well that might be the time , you see when perhaps I was at Cambridge . |
| 13 | Perhaps I was in the wrong place , the wrong part of the town . |
| 14 | Perhaps I was in thrall to an illusion , but to me Pottz looked natural , free , and potent . |
| 15 | Perhaps I was in shock but instead of simply feeling horrified by this intelligence I was curious . |
| 16 | Er yes because obviously I was in that type of field . |
| 17 | One day I was called back from my duties of covering the coroner 's and juvenile courts and told that henceforth I was to be the paper 's " walking reporter " tramping the Dales and picking up whatever stories I could find . |
| 18 | So I was between say sixteen and seventeen and erm Brothers er by this time of course , Mr Richard was dead . |
| 19 | So I was without money for about three weeks . |
| 20 | So I was down Butcher Road yesterday , seeing jeeps nearer five thousand . |
| 21 | So I was on the lookout . |
| 22 | But they know these people because you co-opted on , so I was on standing conference of womens ' organisations . |
| 23 | We do n't cover a great deal of the M one but it 's something like fourteen miles but that was about the time of the miners ' strike as well so I was on traffic when that was on and we had these intercept boys who were working something like thirteen hour shifts for about a year . |
| 24 | Okay so I was on savings at the bottom of erm the sheets . |
| 25 | So I was in a great state of elation . |
| 26 | I do n't like shouting so I was in the middle . |
| 27 | I graduated in 1967 and then I did postgraduate work till 1969 and so I was in a student milieu until a year before the gay movement started . |
| 28 | So I was in the port , running around trying to charge up a card from the outlets , and none of them were working I was putting in my ID , and the authority for the credit , and the screen would say |
| 29 | So I was in a safe and so was the man . |
| 30 | out for me and erm , when he went in on Monday , erm it was the other one the lad that actually owns it , so I was in there for about bloody half an hour and we came home with some samples and one that I quite liked it was up on the wall and he said that is my best selling Axminster that I had , and it was like , it was maybe it was a bit too busy , it was , it was greyey and it was all different other colours in it , but it was a lot of flowers on it , it was n't a traditional Axminster you see Mike loves these traditional Axminsters and he does n't really , he wo n't really entertain anything else , erm , anyway I brought that sample home and what else ? |