Example sentences of "[coord] i was [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , there was an entrance fee and I was beyond the stage of paying those so I decided to try and shelter somewhere else . |
| 2 | My jacket was torn too , at the lapel and at the vent , and I was minus a shoe . |
| 3 | I was er four I left the school at fourteen years of age and I was down the pit the following day . |
| 4 | When my youngest brother was born and I was between eight and nine years old , my troubles began in earnest . |
| 5 | It 's of course always privilege to play over there and I was over there with a national team a few times , it 's a big occasion for the players , for the managers and for the big tournaments too . |
| 6 | At one o'clock , without warning , the wind dropped , dust settled , and I was under a pleasant sky . |
| 7 | It so happened that the firm I had been working for ( manufacturers of rubber-coats , ground-sheets , etc. ) had closed down the Glasgow Office and factory , and I was without work . |
| 8 | and I was outside the door . |
| 9 | Ahmed liked to be laughed at , but he was a peasant and Nour was , in his own estimation , a prince and I was of an English generation which would have felt free to laugh at the Grand Turk if it had been so inclined . |
| 10 | Now that my machine seems to be working tolerably well again , here is some news , along with renewed thanks for the welcome and lovely meals whilst I was with you — and I was of course interested and glad to meet and to know they would come and try and help with anything if you ring them . |
| 11 | ‘ Ken , of course , was fairly right-wing and I was of the opposite persuasion . ’ |
| 12 | It was an affliction rather than a gift , and I was to be healed of it two years later by what I believe was the power of Christ . |
| 13 | They informed me that my Mom had been taken into hospital and I was to be taken into care until she recovered . |
| 14 | Mother and Father had been married for six years and I was to be their only child . |
| 15 | So I walked up to him and I was about this far away yeah ? |
| 16 | And I was with them , with the Greats . |
| 17 | Angie Bowie : I actually met David for the first time when he was with feathers at the Roundhouse and I was with the European head of Mercury Records , a gentleman called Lou Reisner . |
| 18 | I was thinking , what am I doing in this medical school , having a shit time ? ’ , and I was with my first and last girlfriend . |
| 19 | The man had run off and I was with child . |
| 20 | And that was the only time that I 've fired a rifle cos , well actually I went got , rose to a corporal I was a corporal when they finished and erm I was in er made cor lance corporal and then I was er with a heavy Vickers machine gun , that 's the one with the has water cooled casing on it the big heavy one you see , and I was with that , that team . |
| 21 | " She 'd gone to see her parents in Hilderbridge and I was with mine in Jackley . " |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | And I was with her till I left her somewhere in Southampton , I 'd been in her a good while too . |
| 24 | And I was with them when I had this holiday with my sister and we went abroad |
| 25 | And I was with Deborah he gave me a hard |
| 26 | The other person in the house moved out and I was on my own . |
| 27 | When I saw the room , I immediately wanted to call the whole thing off , but the chap already had the cheque and I was on a hiding to nothing with my landlord so I would just have to put up with it . |
| 28 | Two hopping abseils later — I 'm an expert at them now — and I was on the snow . |
| 29 | It looked as if we had painted ourselves into a corner and I was on the verge of giving up and going home when Jake trundled up with his totter 's cart and his little skewbald pony . |
| 30 | The dog was watering the delphiniums and I was on my knees and elbows , bottom in the air , trying to push the ashtray in from a different angle , in the hope he would n't notice it , when the garden gate creaked open — it was the postman . |