Example sentences of "[noun sg] that i [was/were] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anorexia provided me with the illusion that I was in control , not only of my body and my own status within the community , but of that community itself and , finally , of the biological processes which others around me were powerless to influence . |
| 2 | If it comes to light that I was in that house with Adam and the others , he thought with cold clarity , if someone tells the papers , or the police and thence the papers , that I was there during the summer of 1976 , living there , it will be all up with me . |
| 3 | And er I was unmarried at that time and erm I , for a number of , well till nineteen forty was the end of nineteen forty I think , I joined up and went into the , the R A O C as it was then , it became the the side that I was in of course . |
| 4 | Lest anybody should have got the idea from my August column that I was in some way in favour of four-year funding of students of architecture , let me set the record straight . |
| 5 | I glowed when they gave me their expert c , pinion that I was in most respects ‘ a normal young man ’ . |
| 6 | These were er built in between the th that long period that I was on the council . |
| 7 | This was a very comforting thing , although I must admit that I heard of no cases occurring in the period that I was in Mespot . |
| 8 | he to the managing director that I was in the office with a very serious complaint . |
| 9 | Oh well it was not a meeting that I was at then |
| 10 | At this airport the pottery was the same , but it was placed so high up the wall that I was on tiptoe and firing upwards . |
| 11 | Again I was making no contact with the flying control and as I did not have a WT operator I could not use my wireless set to inform the station that I was in this predicament . |
| 12 | ‘ I knew there were only seconds to go and could feel my strength failing with each moment , and a drifting kind of sleep coming on me which whispered , ‘ Give up , Minch , give up … ’ and it was only the knowledge that I was of Callanish , the greatest of the sites , that kept me fighting those few more seconds . |
| 13 | Feeling deliciously convalescent , I pottered about in pyjamas , weak yet fortified by the knowledge that I was in a sympathetic house where I could be waited on , and had no appointments of any kind . |
| 14 | I got down on my knees behind the animal with the feeling that I was on my own . |
| 15 | ‘ I was so far on side the decision was a joke , ’ said Hazard , adding : ‘ The TV people told me after watching a replay that I was at least two yards on side . ’ |
| 16 | I never gave in , but within weeks the networks were buzzing with the news that I was into censorship and as bad as Mary Whitehouse . |
| 17 | Now come on Stephen you were at the same debate that I was at , the housing committee . |
| 18 | Frances told me about their life in Cornwall and I felt for the first time in my life that I was among people of an older generation that I understood , real people . |
| 19 | I lay for several days in a small wooden room , convinced for some reason that I was on an ocean-going ship . |
| 20 | when I first came when I first came , that was the one thing that I was like that was the fact that that I might be pushed that way whereas I only |
| 21 | ‘ Anders has achieved so many of his goals this year that I was on Jamie 's side . |
| 22 | Erm but the first year that I was in the |
| 23 | ‘ It was through their trust that I was in this unique position to walk among them , and I felt I owed it to them not to let them down . ’ |
| 24 | Although I denied being ill and scorned to make the demands for attention usually employed by invalids or malingerers , there is no doubt that I was by this time making a bid for power . |
| 25 | Calling in at Lowestoft I found to my surprise that I was on the promotion list and viewed the prospect with mixed feelings as at the time this meant that I would no longer be eligible to crew on the cutters . |
| 26 | By the time I had replaced the telephone in its cradle I had realized in a sudden , terrifying swoop of misery that I was in genuine danger . |
| 27 | I think he may have planted the idea that I was after her , for badness ’ sake . |
| 28 | Well when it was started up , the first unit that I was with was from the shop floor at Bloxwich Lock and Stamping and erm it took the nucleus of people off the shop floor and then after we 'd finished our ten hour shift during the summer or when we could , we started foot drill training in the yard of the factory . |
| 29 | But she also concurred in the view that I was like my father . |
| 30 | During the time that I was at MainMan , David had become more and more removed from us , but I figured that that was because he was so busy and that was the way it was when you had become a big star . |