Example sentences of "[conj] i was [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After that came Sleetburn , where I was born on 1 August 1926 , which was owned by a William Hutchinson when we lived there . |
| 2 | Well where I was born in Needham Market |
| 3 | We inched again past the thundering monster and its second string to the rear , and emerged at last into the clattering reverberating peace of the baggage car where I was reunited with my waistcoat . |
| 4 | For some months I worked in the Information Department of the British Embassy , where I was engaged in propaganda , which included writing leaders for the Iraq Times . |
| 5 | On Robin Tavistock 's table , where I was honoured to be seated , was a superb square birthday cake , iced in Robin 's racing colours , with fifty tiny candles in miniature gold candelabras . |
| 6 | They drove me back to the Ministry , where I was questioned by an officer I 'd never seen before , a colonel . |
| 7 | MY MOST vivid memory of Shingle Street , where I was stationed between July and November 1940 , was the issue of … 300 Canadian Ross rifles to our Company together with … 303 ammunition that did n't fit the breech . |
| 8 | Another officer was called , and I was carried away , with much clanking of keys , eventually to find myself in a small room , where I was dumped in a negligent way on a table . |
| 9 | He immediately took to his heels with is case of cigarettes and led me a merry dance away from the docks , through a council estate , finally finishing up on the perimeter track of Ipswich Airport where I was rescued in the nick of time by a squad car full of policemen just as I was about to be filled in by the burly seaman . |
| 10 | Or I was detached from it . |
| 11 | And I did n't want to have that 'cause I was looking for respect for me but also for my area of work and it was an absolutely deliberate act . |
| 12 | Although I was shackled to a radiator , my blindfold was removed and I was given a cup of water and a sweetmeat . |
| 13 | Although I was born at Sleetburn further up the dale , I came here when I was three years old , so I do not recall any other place as home . |
| 14 | Although I was walking at a normal pace the impact stunned me . |
| 15 | On the other hand , although I was exhausted by the time I arrived in Sydney , having lost the equivalent of two nights ' sleep , it was not unproductive in terms of collecting tennis news . |
| 16 | No I did n't apply , I erm , although I was interviewed for the job . |
| 17 | Although I was baptized into the Methodist faith I used to prefer the church service because it did n't go on so long . |
| 18 | That is the two hundred million that I was referring to er , earlier , was n't in place at the time that we made our write there . |
| 19 | ‘ It was as a cook that I was sailing with Clive . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Look , Mr Burns , it so happens that I was blessed with a pretty good voice . |
| 21 | I tell him I am a writer and that I was robbed in Cuzco Airport and lost camera , films and all my writing , so I have come to a tranquil place to try to remember . |
| 22 | ‘ You are not of that opinion ? ’ enquired Lili , her head tilted in a way that I was beginning to be familiar with . |
| 23 | I suppose that I was influenced by the exploits of the great test pilots of the day , people like Peter Twiss , Neville Duke and John Derry , who were at the time just coming to grips with high-speed flight and what was called the ‘ sound-barrier ’ . |
| 24 | The real mystery that I was engaged in tended to crowd the fiction out . |
| 25 | People in the street , who knew that I was engaged in negotiations , would come up to me , grab me by my lapels and say , ‘ Get an agreement , we beg you . |
| 26 | Pangs of conscience , and ache of loneliness apart , I found that I was stimulated by the challenge of finding my way about this great and beautiful city , and by having to communicate — to try to speak French quickly enough to make actual conversation possible . |
| 27 | I refused to have a mastectomy and I see now in terms of theory , that I was stagemanaged at various points on the production line , into trying to turn me into a well-behaved patient by traumatising me by saying ‘ If you do n't do what we tell you … ’ or ‘ You 're being very naughty ’ or ‘ You 're being hysterical ’ , or ‘ We have n't got time to deal with all these questions , we 'd never get round ’ , and so on . |
| 28 | I was glad to accept the honour not so much for myself but for the cutter service as a whole when it was confirmed that I was to attend at Buckingham Palace the following summer . |
| 29 | V.W. I 'm not quite the loony that I was seen to be six years ago , when I first came in the school . |
| 30 | When I moves to this area just over two years ago I knew no-one , my two older children were at school and , although I enjoyed being at home with my two-year-old toddler , I felt that I was getting past the stage of discussing sleepless nights and dirty nappies ! |