Example sentences of "[no cls] i was [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No er not , not really because the only time I , I wa I was in trouble with the police was I was riding a bike without a light . |
| 2 | If the yeah there 's a fella , there 's a fella alive today I wa I was in the car outside the pub called the Carpenter 's Arms with him cos er ai n't you trouble with your , oh oh Chuck his name was , Chuck , I said do n't you worry what you what yo ah ! |
| 3 | Ey I told them , I said you might hear some right a I was in the pub Saturday night , mind I did tell afterwards and he 's ever such a nice bl fella he comes over door |
| 4 | With the ploughmen and er in my own case I remember going to the house where I was er I was to be the ploughman for this so called horseman you see ? |
| 5 | Er I was on the committee on the buses , but that was later . |
| 6 | Er I was on duty |
| 7 | I was a er I was on the it was er , before eight before I it was only two minutes to eight when I was er down the road at the |
| 8 | I heard something about this he said , er I was on holidays all last week he said but erm it 's bloody lies cos I saw him last week . |
| 9 | Although for a time for a time , I was er I was with er er er an hotchpotch , mixed up outfit , wh which included er Americans , Canadians , er and British . |
| 10 | But er I was with a gentleman friend . |
| 11 | Er er I was with you then selling then . |
| 12 | Er I was at Portugal , we had fancied going to America but er my husband 's young brother and his wife want to come with us this year and they 've got two young kids so they felt it was far enough for them . |
| 13 | So my mother brought us all to on the train and er I was at that time about let's see nineteen thirty twenty I think I was eight years of age then . |
| 14 | Well I I was eleven but by the time but I had a birthday , you see , er in the summer and er er well August actually and so when I started at Stowmarket I was twelve , you see , and er and er I was at Stowmarket School and scholarship for four years and er well I do n't know whether I really liked school , did you ? |
| 15 | Well I do n't li er I was in one class each time I went . |
| 16 | Er they used to march us round the playground you see and er I was in the back row and of course the teacher was at the front more or less . |
| 17 | Er I was in the credit and I was with a large group of people there and they seemed very happy and I think we were fair , we 'd got good conditions . |
| 18 | No that 's alright then and er I , I got into , I came , came back sort of when mother died , had to come back suddenly in the middle of the week and then erm I brought me family up as I say and , and my hubby he took , he took us Christmas shopping which is twenty one years ago this , this month the sixteenth my daughter-in-law and I and the little boy and that 's the little boy over there that 's now married , the one with the photograph , he took us shopping at Bishop 's Stortford cos we had n't any shops nothing here then , there was nothing when I first came here it was terrible and we went to Bishop 's Stortford and we came home in the , dinner time and I got erm , had our dinner and everything , had our meal , well we had soup and that was gon na cook at night , er you know , dinner at night so we had soup and that and erm he said I go down to the garage to put a tyre on my car , he came struggling back and within half an hour he was dead at fifty six years old that 's all he was , so I was left to bring up those that was n't married , I was left to bring up er the others you know , er I had the twins with me and Roy one of the boys and erm , er Brian the youngest one and I had to bring them up and I , after I , they , they all got married and I moved , before they got married I just got Brian with me the two twins got married , and I moved into my daughter-in-law 's house next door which was no two , seven , five the other side , I 'm sorry , two , seven , five and er I was in my house though three years that four bedroom and I could n't afford to keep you know big house like that going with just three , my , me and my son so we moved into her house and she had the end one which is still in now , we 'd done a swap and then cos er , er in the later years I was in there oh a long , long while and I loved it and I did n't wan na move but then I found , I was handicapped , I would n't get up the stairs to the toilet so I was moved into this bungalow you see and I had a friend living with me and he erm , he come here to live with me , came to lodge with me because he did n't want to go into Stevenage you see and er , after that erm , after that we , I had this bungalow and er I moved into this bungalow and er he moved in here with me and er everything happened when I got in this bungalow . |
| 19 | Er I was in the market and we came out with a machine that produced lager from top tap worker . |
| 20 | Now the funny thing about it , when I took metallurgy I got , I , I got all this process I knew all about it you know , and er I had it the theory explained to me then , but er I was in the Bell one day about twenty years ago and an old boy came in and I started talking to him and he says , I bet you do n't know what I am ? |
| 21 | Has that come up in your er in your well we were coming back there one night from my aunt 's and er there were quite a lot of policemen about and I was only a little boy , it was before the First World War and my father said to one of these policemen , what 's happening so , oh we had a tip-off he says that er there 's these Whirly Gang folks and in the morning we saw somebody 'd been maimed or killed , but er that was another bit of interesting news around , and I remember down in Caldmore one day there used to be some ladies who used to come from , well they used to be , one of them used to call them the salt ladies , they used to come with blocks of salt on a , on a I think they used to come from and I saw a horse there as a kid and I , it had got a long gash right across its body and I said to this lady I said , what 's happened to this , she said oh the Whirly Gang and er I was in Paris in nineteen twenty two and er we got to this hotel and there was another Englishman on this trip and he said to me he said where do you come from ? |
| 22 | We , I used to move around a lot on those days as you could do really speaking because I was n't old enough to be under the Essential Works Order you see , and er I was by the time I went into the army it was 1946 so er the war was over . |
| 23 | I was taken into the , my wife died in January of nineteen eighty nine , I was taken into the local psychiatric hospital at in the December of nineteen eighty nine and I was told I was gon na be given an experimental drug , I was told nothing about it or any anything to do with any of the side effects , I I was in th I was on Prozac for about four days , I suffered horrendous side effects , shaking and one thing and another . |
| 24 | And er , I think it only struck me on Saturday and I tho I too I was in the car car with Carl and oh no ! |
| 25 | Erm I was on the railway for thirty years , as a driver on the railway at would n't remember |
| 26 | I think it was erm a bit of a ploy that erm I was extra to establishment really and I was only temporary , on the temporary staff until erm well a year or so after the war when all these things were sort of sorted out and erm I was on the permanent |
| 27 | I , I was in when I had a hysterectomy and , but I think I was so ill I was glad really that erm I was on my own then . |
| 28 | on er er , er and had erm I was on an antibiotic for a , week or so . |
| 29 | And then erm I was at home for a while , and then I was living with friends in Birmingham , and in , in between time I 've been to Leeds and London . |
| 30 | Erm I was at Manchester doing physics . |