Example sentences of "i [verb] were [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the Pakistani mothers I asked were against sex education in school . |
| 2 | And as for Leeds , the only boys I met were at teenage dances . |
| 3 | I do feel I 'd like to say one point about the people who were in this house , that it 's quite clear , all of them I believe were under care of the social services , erm and I do n't know enough about their history to say whether they , where they 've been before , whether they 've been in some half-way house , or just been thrown out of some mental institution . |
| 4 | ‘ If all the blokes I knew were like you then I 'd be better off with another girl , would n't I ? ’ she said scornfully . |
| 5 | At least , all the other eighteen-year-olds I knew were like this , so I presumed it was normal . |
| 6 | She , Bambi , Nell and the Youngs made their way past me without looking at me and continued on along the corridor beside the kitchen , going to inspect the revised quarters which I knew were in the sleeping car forward of Filmer 's . |
| 7 | The only corners I knew were in the playground where boys tried to fumble in my knickers , and street corners where the winds met head-on . |
| 8 | The things I wrote were for you . |