Example sentences of "that i was [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 ‘ It was as a cook that I was sailing with Clive . ’
3 ‘ Look , Mr Burns , it so happens that I was blessed with a pretty good voice .
4 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 .
5 ‘ You are not of that opinion ? ’ enquired Lili , her head tilted in a way that I was beginning to be familiar with .
6 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 ’ .
7 The real mystery that I was engaged in tended to crowd the fiction out .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 V.W. I 'm not quite the loony that I was seen to be six years ago , when I first came in the school .
13 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 !
14 She felt that I was getting in the way .
15 Er , prior to that I was trained as an electrician .
16 Winning the title meant that I was selected for Great Britain to run against West Germany in Dortmund .
17 Among many blessings , which I count from time to time , is the good fortune of being born in this age of progress ‘ in all directions ’ and the fact that I was born with an innate curiosity .
18 That I was born with a silver spoon in my mouth ? ’
19 My father had told me years before that I was born under the starsign of the Dog because Sirius was overhead at the time .
20 Anyway , rather than attributing it to my childhood , I prefer to believe that I was born into the world with greater or lesser faculties than other people and that I can take full responsibility for them .
21 It did n't matter that I was born in Baldersdale , my father was n't .
22 ‘ I do n't know that I ever 'ad one , the orphanage never said I did , but they did say me birthday was December the second , and that I was born in 1889 . ’
23 When I told them that I was born in a similar bed and had become a doctor afterwards they were more convinced .
24 This has probably something to do with the fact that I was born in Belfast and lived there for 18 years .
25 ‘ My mother , ’ said Bernard , suddenly , talkative at last , ‘ is a mean-spirited , disgusting bitch ; a big fat mammy , and to think that I was born from between her legs makes me want to vomit .
26 The truth is that I was sent to Scotland to find out what happened , is happening and might happen . ’
27 Just as I had been told repeatedly that I was destined to ‘ do well ’ , so then I was being told that I was destined to be ‘ stout ’ .
28 Just as I had been told repeatedly that I was destined to ‘ do well ’ , so then I was being told that I was destined to be ‘ stout ’ .
29 So that ruins your idea that I was hit with the bottle standing beside the bed .
30 ‘ Still , it was n't exactly that I was thinking of , ’ the Marshal said .
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