Example sentences of "[vb past] i be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was n't until half an hour later that I realised I was on C1 . |
| 2 | I was as quiet as I could be , but all the same , I ca n't help wondering if at some stage he realised I was on his heels . |
| 3 | ‘ I THOUGHT I was still standing and then I realised I was on the floor . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I pleaded guilty because I realised I was in breach of my contract and expected to be punished . |
| 5 | She just had to turn out , and there was nothing coming down , foot down , opened up , got I was at the top of the hill and she was nowhere in sight . |
| 6 | Anyway I smiled and I wheedled and he let me be without the gag and he let me look round . |
| 7 | I found I was outside the tent , standing up with my jacket clutched to me , the better to see them . |
| 8 | She said , no you write and he 'll , she 'll write back , you see but , and he went out to France and he was killed in three months and and his name , so they told me was on the er , on the board at er . |
| 9 | The trouble was that Melanie believed I was in bed with one of them every time I was half an hour late . ’ |
| 10 | From the deadness of sound , I judged I was in the main roof-space . |
| 11 | Like the rest of the family , you assumed I was for sale . |
| 12 | We started accumulating works of art and people just assumed I was in the business . |
| 13 | Nobody even noticed I was in the room ! |
| 14 | When Adrian writes ‘ Nobody even noticed I was in the room ! ’ with its exclamation mark of outrage at the end , part of us says ‘ Of course they did n't notice . |
| 15 | Mum noticed I was in a rather strange mood . |
| 16 | The greatest compliment Mark Knopfler ever paid me was in a magazine when he was asked to list the members of Dire straits . |
| 17 | As it happened I was on night duty . |
| 18 | One of the things they taught me was to be independent of doctrine , for their separate advice to me was contradictory . |
| 19 | You may not believe this , but though Richard and I have now known each other for eighteen years on and off , the first time he kissed me was in the car-park last Thursday . ’ |
| 20 | I can not say how touched I am at the warmth of the reception you have arranged for me . ’ |
| 21 | I am writing to convey how shocked and saddened I am at the news . |
| 22 | In the years that followed I was to be in that lovely apartment many times visiting Jessica and Celia , who served the most delicious toasted bacon sandwiches and coffee that I have ever tasted . |
| 23 | ‘ I kept thinking today how lucky I was , you see , how blessedly fortunate , with all I have , all that is so comfortable , all that makes me so — so much happier than I was , and then this evening I went to the Rectory and when I returned I was in my room and I looked out at the darkness and I thought of you and how lonely you must be after all the company and society you have known just recently and I thought — I thought — ’ |
| 24 | I only discovered I was in it by sheer chance . |
| 25 | I had n't seen her since you went to America , and then about six months ago I was staying the week-end with the Coleworthys and I thought I had better drop in to see the old girl in case she heard I was in the neighbourhood and took offence " |
| 26 | ‘ I did n't win anything when I entered last year , so I adapted the recipe then heard I was in the North of England finals . |
| 27 | So anyway I er the War came and went but before it went I was in , went int eh Army of course . |
| 28 | When he came in he saw I was on the verge of tears and said , " What 's wrong ? " |
| 29 | But when I looked up I saw I was underneath a car . |
| 30 | When Bodo saw I was in trouble , he said ‘ We 'd better turn round and go out the other way . |