Example sentences of "[pers pn] [conj] i was [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes cos I when I was with B P for six years , a non-contributory pension scheme , I lost every you know |
| 2 | Ellen Orford in the poem is a middle-aged woman and it was fortuitous for me that I was about the right age — it 's not a part for a young soprano . |
| 3 | Not until I arrived on the 18th tee 1-down did it suddenly occur to me that I was on the point of losing . |
| 4 | I remember many occasions when friends would reassure me that I was like them , there were n't any differences . |
| 5 | I hardly knew how I was able to face it , either then or at any other time of my life in this mocking world , but I did , though it did not seem to me that I was in any way heroic — just the opposite , in fact . |
| 6 | It proved to me that I was in earnest , that I was truly resolved . |
| 7 | It did n't occur to me that I was in labour because it was too early . |
| 8 | Once a Met Officer remarked cheerfully to me ( from the warmth and light of the office ) , that the rats were much more frightened of me than I was of them , but I noticed that he did n't take me up on my suggestion that he should come out with me and see for himself . |
| 9 | There was no danger … he was more frightened of me than I was of him … but that 's not the point … if it had been an old lady … he coulde have given her a heart attack … |
| 10 | Oh if I was me and I was on my own I 'd ha I 'd have to have the telly in the bedroom . |
| 11 | Well when we went there was Phyllis , Julie , and me and I was in the middle of because I 'd never been on ice skates before , I 'd been roller skating holding each side of them right , and they let me go and I just went and I was going down and I went bang right on the bloody side . |
| 12 | ‘ But several days later he came straight out with it and asked me if I was on the Pill and would I go on holiday to Scotland with him . |
| 13 | ‘ John came up to me , asked me if I was in pain then took hold of the jack , ’ said Mr Trueman , of Chaddesden , Derby . |
| 14 | IT NEVER struck me until I was in the sixth form that the activity pursued by scientists had any direct link with the everyday world . |
| 15 | Did I tell you that I was at Belsen just after it was liberated ? ’ |
| 16 | You did n't give your mum any money to get that C D did you that I was after ? |
| 17 | Now I would n't talk to you individually , I 'd overwhelm you if I was like this . |
| 18 | Me and , you and I was in there on do n't know when , years ago . |
| 19 | ‘ They were n't like you when I was at school , ’ had been his amused reaction when she had told him that she taught in the village . |
| 20 | Now children am I right in thinking that when Mrs came in and took some lessons with you when I was on a course that she taught you how to count up to thirty ? |
| 21 | It would be worth it , if it put an end to such irritations as the inconvenient way I 'd suddenly find myself visualising you when I was with other women … |
| 22 | I tell you when I was in here it was just keeping calm . |
| 23 | Leeds ' disallowed first half goal , just after the canaries ' one , looked good to me but I was at the other end of the pitch peering through the floodlit rainstorm . |
| 24 | If I had to describe her , I would say that she was a sensible , down-to-earth woman , dressed plainly and cleanly , understanding what I was experiencing , yet sighing at my folly and patiently keeping an eye on me till I was in a stronger state again . |
| 25 | Mrs Fairfax had written to me while I was at Gateshead , telling me that the guests had all gone , and Mr Rochester had gone to London to buy a carriage for his wedding . |
| 26 | The DHSS reckoned someone was signing on for me while I was in prison . |
| 27 | It felt churlish to tell him that I was in a hurry , that the coffee would have to be quick . |
| 28 | Mum guessed there was something and in the end I told her that I was in love with a married man . |
| 29 | ‘ … burst upon the scene , and , do you know , he looked so angry that I was more frightened of him than I was of his grisly companion . |
| 30 | So I walked up to him and I was about this far away yeah ? |