Example sentences of "i was [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not Billingsley 's physical size that provoked that fear , for I was of a size with him , nor was it his profession that gave me pause , but rather the aura of incipient violence that he radiated like a blast furnace . |
| 2 | ‘ That is fortunate , ’ said the emir , ‘ for I was of a mind to present you with none . |
| 3 | If I was of a mind to stop washing and shaving and go live in a bus and drive around the country shitting in farmers ' fields and killing their sheep and being hassled by the pigs and pilloried by the Daily Star and generally being ‘ free ’ , this is the record I would choose to do it to . |
| 4 | I was of the opinion that when the plans for the new St Augustine 's School were under discussion that the number of proposed school places was too low . |
| 5 | However , there was an entrance fee and I was beyond the stage of paying those so I decided to try and shelter somewhere else . |
| 6 | I was worth a try , Josie thought sadly . |
| 7 | I was outside the door , listening . |
| 8 | and I was outside the door . |
| 9 | I was outside the chapel when I heard them … the Empress and my lord Sheriff … |
| 10 | I found I was outside the tent , standing up with my jacket clutched to me , the better to see them . |
| 11 | ‘ I was outside the hall leafleting when the debate was called . |
| 12 | I could n't convince them at the other end that I needed an ambulance because I was outside the hospital . |
| 13 | I was over the moon for Tom , but I was also cold , wet , and in agony with my legs . |
| 14 | I was over the moon . |
| 15 | I was over the moon at the thought of showing my pals and class-mates a real American dollar . |
| 16 | I was over the moon . |
| 17 | I was over the moon — although this only lasted for about a year as I paid a visit with some friends to see the 1991 ‘ Sound Off Championships ’ at Wembley . |
| 18 | I was over the moon . |
| 19 | ‘ When I found out they were still alive I was over the moon . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I was over the moon , ’ she said . |
| 21 | But I then put the Whitley into the most desperate dive , everything in the cabin was floating , and before the Foxes could turn round and do anything about , it I was over the Channel , I landed at Manston where I was put under arrest immediately . |
| 22 | That was hard work all the time , my hands my hands used to chap on the backs , used to chap hands and that was only , I was over the wind , I wind and , and er when I used to scrub the cabin out which was with washing soda and soft soap and when you went along cos that was you get , you get erm , ordinary washing soda on the back of your hands and they did n't supply anything then . |
| 23 | When I took over at the Department of Health and Social Security , I was under no illusion about the difficulty of my job . |
| 24 | ‘ I was under no illusions I would walk into the team here , ’ he said . |
| 25 | I am always drawn back to it as if I was under a compulsion " They are telling the truth . |
| 26 | I was under the influence of a power a million times stronger than any drug . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The fine statues on the topmost balconies of the Ayuntamiento and framing the moonlike clock-face gestured against the midnight skies , and at once I was under the spell of the past . |
| 29 | He recalled , ‘ I was under the pressure of being a family man with a daughter , and one day I accepted a job to act in a movie in the day-time and was writing another movie at night . |
| 30 | At last I was under the shadow of the prison arch , splashing and gasping with other ill-glimpsed men . |