Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] i [was/were] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | R.B. And of course where I was sat you see you were waving your hands through the air and I noticed it … |
| 2 | His apartment in New York would be no place to keep an African antelope , and so he came to the nature reserve where I was working . |
| 3 | At Cambridge , NUPE put a picket around the Union building where I was taking part in a debate and the police wanted to take me in by a side entrance . |
| 4 | ‘ There 's a cellar with a trap door under that bit where I was locked in . |
| 5 | Gray picks at a salad as she talks : ’ I did this one interview where I was eating a cheeseburger and this guy wrote all about the blob of ketchup oozing down my chin , ’ she says . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | For over twenty years I worked under the delusion that I was teaching maths . |
| 8 | I knew that if the handle moved faster it would sound better , so I really exerted every ounce of my miserable muscle power and the handle jerked forward with such force that I was lifted clean off the ground . |
| 9 | The mention that I was journeying via Marseilles prompted him to warn me , somewhat to my surprise , not to let the street-girls of the special quarter ( since abolished ) commandeer my hat — a favourite play of theirs to inveigle one inside — which suggested that he had experienced such an approach . |
| 10 | However , recognising John 's substantial experience of ICAO matters , the division appointed him as chairman of committee ‘ A ’ , with the result that I was left virtually as head of the UK delegation . |
| 11 | The reply that I was given is as follows : ’ The external finance limit for BR next year will be £2,041 million . |
| 12 | The drop down from Meall Corranaich and back up to Beinn Ghlas was a great deal more substantial than I would have wished at this point in the walk , keeping in mind that I was hallucinating from the effort of the chase and the subsequent lack of oxygen managing to get anywhere near my lungs via a mouth full of clenched teeth . |
| 13 | My motivations were not as clear-cut as those of any contemporary workforce , but there is no doubt in my mind that I was going on strike in the only way I knew how to , and that in this sense Szasz is right to describe anorexia nervosa as a political problem . |
| 14 | I 'd made up my mind that I was going to tell you last night . ’ |
| 15 | I certainly wanted it to be true because I was the only boy ( well , nearly the only boy ) in our class never to have had a girlfriend and I was beginning to feel a bit left out . |
| 16 | I had n't seen her since that night at the Club and I was beginning to despair of ever seeing her again . |
| 17 | I was posted to the er ack-ack brigade and I was posted to Norwich , just at Norwich , Coldershaw really . |
| 18 | Erm when I came on to the flats I came with an open mind and I was gon na you know take things as I as I met them . |
| 19 | Michael is a man who knows his own mind and I was relying on him for some controversial quotes , but he surprised me by agreeing on the whole with Mr Isherwood 's choices . |
| 20 | I 'm , I 'm sure I 'd change my mind if I was burgled . |
| 21 | Well I was looking out the other side cos I was trying to work out where Glynis lived . |
| 22 | And this morning she jumped on my neck and I was sleeping and I woke up , you know what she does while she 's doing it ? |
| 23 | and erm , we both decided we 'd take this diploma and er Mr erm in his kindness let us erm erm go off to the workshops and do some practical work and erm my wife lived at Stow Upland and I was lodging in Ipswich and er he even allowed us to study in the , in the erm Enquiry Office in the evenings . |
| 24 | Now I would not want to live in a country where my ex-wife and I were denied the right to another chance . ’ |
| 25 | I wish to notify other divers that while diving in Cornwall earlier this year , my buddy and I were charged £2 each for just walking down the slip for a shore dive . |
| 26 | My charge was supplying cocaine and I was given two years for that and one year each concurrent for possession of small amounts of cannabis , cannabis resin , amphetamines and LSD . |
| 27 | They were arguing about who had the softest fabric and I was called in as arbitrator . |
| 28 | When the hon. Member for Newham , North-East and I were buying one or two shirts in Sri Lanka , we must have been conscious that we were supporting the industry of the developing world , and rightly so . |
| 29 | I can remember being in the back of a car and I was screaming . |
| 30 | They gave up in disgust and I was waved through , saluted by the spotty boy . |