Example sentences of "i was [verb] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Of all the low points I suffered , one of the worst was when I was deprived of the chance of winning a third world cross country title because I was n't allowed to compete in 1988 , ’ explained the 26-year-old . |
| 2 | Knowledge of German … little … ’ — I was thinking of the pleasure of being once again among my own people . |
| 3 | I was thinking of the colour of her hair : Daniel , you may remember , alluded to her as a redhead . |
| 4 | But I was thinking of the ones you see in cottages . |
| 5 | ‘ Before we came aboard this ship I was thinking of the possibilities . ’ |
| 6 | I was thinking of the first one which was reproduced in Herbert Read . |
| 7 | I was thinking of the compromise , Sebastian 's , my own . |
| 8 | I was thinking of the mothers . |
| 9 | Yeah that 's the thing I was thinking of the T R P like you say the transition relevance point . |
| 10 | And I was thinking of the future . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I was thinking of the property , rather than of you and Doreen , ’ she retorted , while silently admitting the truth of his accusation . |
| 12 | I asked to keep her talking , but I was thinking of the scribble on the photocopies I 'd found . |
| 13 | ‘ I was thinking of the look of the thing . |
| 14 | and I was thinking of the benefactor who actually offered this er |
| 15 | Yeah I was thinking of the lights and them we hardly use the lights . |
| 16 | I was just thinking how this feels incredibly … atmospheric , ’ she heard herself admitting reluctantly , waving an arm to encompass the satiny darkness of the sea all around them , ‘ I was thinking of the ghosts of all those Spanish galleons which met a sticky end in these very waters , hundreds of years ago , ’ she added , with a touch of melodrama which made him laugh out loud . |
| 17 | I was thinking of the word Grove . |
| 18 | I was thinking of the seasons Chinese vegetables were born . |
| 19 | yeah , I was thinking of the parent and teacher side of it |
| 20 | I was thinking of the |
| 21 | But by all means if you 've got something bring it along and that would give us a starter for five I 'm keen to see us also trying to once we 've got this going going down the S P Q road ah had lunch with the other day at I mean it was I mean she was n't meeting him necessarily wearing a B A I E hat of not um and I think she I think she touched on that though while while while they were lunching. erm I put down progress because I was thinking of the Pilgrims Progress at the time |
| 22 | As a recently joined member of CAMRA , I must say how appalled I was to read of the new rules for the Champion Beer of Britain Competition for 1992 . |
| 23 | I was told of the story by a friend who knew the old platelayer who we shall call Fred . |
| 24 | ‘ Each year seems to bring a new craze , anything but study ’ , he continued , as I was told of the ‘ talking about reform ’ craze in 1985 , before the student unrest ; that of democracy in 1986 ; falling in love in 1987 ; and in 1988 the preoccupation with ‘ doing business ’ . |
| 25 | I was reminded of the black iron horse silhouettes which decorate the Wolverhampton to Shrewsbury railway line in England . |
| 26 | I was reminded of the priest 's tale of the Mountbatten murder . |
| 27 | I was reminded of the Brecht poem in which the politicians decide that they can not trust the people and that they had better elect a new one . |
| 28 | WATCHING the collapse of the opinion polls ' projections of a hung Parliament early last Friday morning , I was reminded of the 1970 General Election . |
| 29 | I was reminded of the techniques of early home-construction by a piece in Radio Bygones , a magazine devoted to the radio art of the past . |
| 30 | Dear Guitarist Catching Nirvana 's ‘ performance ’ on the recent MTV Video Music Awards I was reminded of the time when , as a youngster , the guitar-smashing exploits of my heroes — the likes of Townshend and Hendrix — left a bad taste in my mouth . |