Example sentences of "[noun] i was [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had lunch and then sat on the wheelbarrow swatting flies , neither willing to go further out of my way , nor to return , just in case I was on the right track . |
| 2 | But I gave my genuine reason for returning earlier , which was the Arts Council 's monthly meeting , in which I was deeply interested and whose chairman I was at the time . |
| 3 | For a change I was in the right place at the right time and got a job , with housing , at the Folger Theatre in Washington DC . |
| 4 | K. M. I was on the Dingle Lane gate — Shell Mex place — and I 'd been down there a few months . |
| 5 | ‘ Of course I was on the same squadron as him for a time . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Of course I was at the time . |
| 7 | Well it was steady income I was in the house every night my wife was happy . |
| 8 | Within minutes I was inside the camp , where I hoped to meet the tinkers who had tried to rob me at Killorglin . |
| 9 | Yeah your , here 's , here 's your Christmas present I was on the streets for that . |
| 10 | At times I was on the way down and the ball was on the way up . |
| 11 | And then eight or nine weeks after my happy entry into College I was on the carpet — kindly chat , of course , but none the less serious for not being a court martial ! |
| 12 | If anybody said , if , Tuesday we started , if anybody said on the , what they want sent them Wednesday , Thursday , Friday , take all the orders down under their appropriate names in the book but right an Mond Tuesday , Wednesday Thursday my day off and Friday and Saturday I was in the office . |
| 13 | Now , I can hold my liquor as well as the next man , so it is ludicrous to suggest that when I reversed the club van into the tea hut I was under the influence . |
| 14 | Aye , in the Washington I was in the Washington |
| 15 | T. D. I was on the beat round Stanley Hospital and I got to this point at four o'clock on the Saturday morning . |
| 16 | So er when I was , I was on the county council I was on the welfare committee and er in later years I was on the planning committee . |
| 17 | The next moment I was on the floor and one was kicking me and the other was hitting me in the face . |
| 18 | Wharton said : ‘ It is something that I must overcome , I had trained for 12 rounds and was thinking of the crowd instead of doing the job I was in the ring to do . ’ |
| 19 | In late October he wrote again to Rohde : " This evening I was at the Euterpe Society , which has started its winter concerts , and refreshed myself with the Prelude to Tristan und Isolde as well as the Overture to Die Meistersinger . |
| 20 | One evening I was in the ‘ No ’ lobby waiting to file past the clerks to record my vote on a three-line whip . |
| 21 | In the evening I was in the dressing-room after the show when a note was brought to me . |
| 22 | So er when I was , I was on the county council I was on the welfare committee and er in later years I was on the planning committee . |
| 23 | I have a watertight cover for all those years I was with the Black June . |
| 24 | for a while I was in the Air Force and then I lived in various parts of the country . |
| 25 | ‘ Only the other day I was at the vicarage , seeing Mrs Ainger about my stall at the bazaar-I 'm doing the fancy work this year , you know — and there was pussy , bold as brass , if you please , walking into the lounge as if she owned it . ’ |
| 26 | One day I was in the library and I came across this book . |
| 27 | One day I was in the wheelchair and people were talking to John and Jo but ignoring me . |
| 28 | I found them , and in a minute I was in the first room , where Bersonin and Detchard were . |
| 29 | The first week I was at the school , I attempted to climb a tree , and was reproved by a horrified prefect . |
| 30 | right I 'll , last week I was in the surgery one day to help Sue and she had |