Example sentences of "[conj] i [was/were] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 I did so , and seeing I was of no more use , I rushed inside to awaken my older brother and sister to show them what had happened .
2 I saw some of the places that were to play an important part in the later dramas of my life : the great Clerecia church where I was to be sitting one momentous morning , and beside it the lovely Casa de las Conchas , its walls decorated with rows of carved scallop shells — seven rows adorn the upper storeys .
3 For reasons which are too complicated to bother with , I had left Scotland , where I was for Christmas , on December 30th to go to the Isle of Wight and spend that most braw , bricht , moonlicht and Caledonian of celebrations , Hogmanay in the Deep South .
4 Julian Charley , to Edward England , my publisher , and to St. John 's College , Nottingham , where I was at that time principal , and by whose Governors I had been given study leave in order to write the book .
5 I stayed right where I was on the floor telling myself I 'd be fine in just a few minutes .
6 That was very early on in my filming if anyone had asked me I would have said ‘ I 'm always on the move , you know I never sit down in a lesson , and I do n't sit down but where I was on the move was in a very limited space so just having the camera at the back on that table , just having it still showed me so much about what was going on in the room and how you use the time …
7 And if I carry on with this relationship I shall just end up where I was in New York , miserable , unhappy , alone .
8 Cunning — she could find out where I was from the town code .
9 He demanded twice , in an extremely hoarse voice , where I was from .
10 Anyway I said oh I said you 're not expecting me , said who I was and where I was from .
11 ‘ You could have found out where I was by asking your fianc . ’
12 I had somehow supposed her to sit in that room for ever , real only when Hugo or I were with her .
13 I suppose I could have joined in except I was on the second tier of the other stand .
14 ‘ The little one , ’ she called me , although I was at least as tall as she was .
15 Although I was at art school for four years , I was hardly ever there , I always worked at home .
16 Although I was in pain I was conscious and can remember seeing Callanish itself .
17 I vividly remember , although I was in a thoroughly sleepy condition , telling him that in my view the only proper justification for an enquiry about Mr Profumo 's personal life depended on the possibility that some act of his might have compromised security , because he obviously had information which was secret .
18 But although I was in great pain , I was desperate to know if Magwitch was safe .
19 I begged not to go to school the next day , but Mama said that I was over my cold and that I would be safer at school in case her trick should fail .
20 Do n't that I was over impressed with Tammy Girl , were you ?
21 ‘ I would think that whoever took those things is very worried indeed now to find that I was with Harry and that he is alive .
22 Well when it was started up , the first unit that I was with was from the shop floor at Bloxwich Lock and Stamping and erm it took the nucleus of people off the shop floor and then after we 'd finished our ten hour shift during the summer or when we could , we started foot drill training in the yard of the factory .
23 ‘ So why do you care that I was with her that night ? ’
24 ‘ I knew there were only seconds to go and could feel my strength failing with each moment , and a drifting kind of sleep coming on me which whispered , ‘ Give up , Minch , give up … ’ and it was only the knowledge that I was of Callanish , the greatest of the sites , that kept me fighting those few more seconds .
25 I sent my rent book off as proof of the fact that I was of what the rent was
26 Later they told me that the examination had shown that I was not yet sixteen and that I was to be sent back on the next flight . ’
27 The upshot was that I was summoned by the university authorities and told that I was to be allowed to continue my studies but only under certain stringent conditions .
28 As it turned out , fate had decreed that I was to be the one who would change this unhappy state of affairs .
29 She did not know that I was to be there and came forward saying : ‘ My dear Elizabeth , what a very nice surprise .
30 It was from Magda that we heard early in September that a British Sunday newspaper had reported that an Iranian with close links to Hezbollah had said in Beirut that I was to be released immediately .
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