Example sentences of "that i was [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Look , Mr Burns , it so happens that I was blessed with a pretty good voice . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | The real mystery that I was engaged in tended to crowd the fiction out . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | V.W. I 'm not quite the loony that I was seen to be six years ago , when I first came in the school . |
| 9 | Er , prior to that I was trained as an electrician . |
| 10 | Winning the title meant that I was selected for Great Britain to run against West Germany in Dortmund . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | That I was born with a silver spoon in my mouth ? ’ |
| 13 | My father had told me years before that I was born under the starsign of the Dog because Sirius was overhead at the time . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It did n't matter that I was born in Baldersdale , my father was n't . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 17 | When I told them that I was born in a similar bed and had become a doctor afterwards they were more convinced . |
| 18 | This has probably something to do with the fact that I was born in Belfast and lived there for 18 years . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . |
| 20 | The truth is that I was sent to Scotland to find out what happened , is happening and might happen . ’ |
| 21 | 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 ’ . |
| 22 | 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 ’ . |
| 23 | So that ruins your idea that I was hit with the bottle standing beside the bed . |
| 24 | Did you not know that I was bound to be in my Father 's house ? |
| 25 | I am not exaggerating when I say that I was inspired by all I saw at the adult education centres in Croydon . |
| 26 | Claudia , 21 , reportedly the highest-paid model in the world , says : ‘ Those stories that I was pictured with whips are complete rubbish . |
| 27 | I saw that I was intended to be subject to people like these two , was doomed to marry Syl as surely as I had been born of my mother . |
| 28 | But that was a fact under the sectional council number three , the one that I was represented by , they seemed to be poor . |
| 29 | God seemed remote but I appealed for his protection and received a measure of assurance , though I felt that I was followed by an evil presence . |
| 30 | I had gone to Bletchley in excitement and trepidation , had been very content there , in congenial company , and with the satisfaction of knowing that I was employed on work essential to the war effort . |