Example sentences of "i was [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm glad I was of some use to you , ’ she said , unable to keep an edge of tartness from her voice . |
| 2 | ‘ Sorry , I was including that . |
| 3 | Erm no , I 'm normally I 'm , funny I was over that way last weekend cos er , you know , pop over to the beach and things . |
| 4 | I was above such things . |
| 5 | If they knew I was under that sort of pressure , they 'd stop giving me rides altogether . |
| 6 | I was on that , I mean I 've not been taking them all the time , I 've really only been taking them when I feel it . |
| 7 | Yes that 's how that 's how it was , yes all I was on that gate , I 'd been on that gate myself dozens of times . |
| 8 | And they thought I was on that plane blown up . |
| 9 | I was on that plane . |
| 10 | I was on that , there was several of us . |
| 11 | And it 's frightening , but I , I mean , I know from my days at British Telecom , I 'd say I was on that phone , really |
| 12 | I had a paper to say and they said there was too much money coming in here a week , because you were working that I could n't get anything and I , it said , I wrote , it , it all come when I wrote to say could I have relief off of prescriptions cos I was on that H I V at the time |
| 13 | I was on all day and I , it did n't come off until about four o'clock |
| 14 | Maybe I was on some damp lichen . |
| 15 | Strenuous laybacking for 40 feet or so brings better holds , allowing exhilaratingly steep bridging , and the whole rope will have run out by the time you pull onto the platform at the top , all too soon for the fit , but thankfully for the tired or those leading at their limit , as I was on this occasion . |
| 16 | I was on this planet . |
| 17 | Not er not while I was on this On that job . |
| 18 | And er of course as I tell you , I finished when I was thirteen years old and I was on this er bottle washing stunt and o one chap as lived next door to us , back at er at Road he got me his this job on the farm . |
| 19 | I was on this side of consciousness , just , feeling very sick , with a huge head . |
| 20 | then I was on this roller and then we got er started up at the power station with the |
| 21 | Last time I was on this programme I think we had the same conversation , did n't we ? |
| 22 | ‘ I must say , ’ answered the pregnant girl , ‘ that I had never expected to be as tired by anything as I was during those awful nights in the Blitz when sleep seemed something one would never have again — but this is worse ! ’ |
| 23 | And that was the only time that I 've fired a rifle cos , well actually I went got , rose to a corporal I was a corporal when they finished and erm I was in er made cor lance corporal and then I was er with a heavy Vickers machine gun , that 's the one with the has water cooled casing on it the big heavy one you see , and I was with that , that team . |
| 24 | He really you know made me feel I say I were n't sat there like I was with that fella thinking well he do n't seem to know what he 's saying anyway . |
| 25 | I was standing with him , you know , and two mates were there with their birds and I could n't because I was with this wee guy of 12 , watching him , and those fourteen guys got round me and wanted to fight with me . |
| 26 | My boyfriend knew nothing of these habits and the first move was to tell him , which relieved me incredibly ( actually to admit to someone how unhappy I was with these eating habits ) . |
| 27 | From time to time , and I think mainly to keep in touch , Aunt Janie would ring me to ask if I could come to the house to help with a small task , such as fixing the cellar door , hammering in a stray loose plank over the cistern and so on — although she must have known as well as I did how useless I was at such household chores . |
| 28 | It seems that she had fallen in love with him but she " did n't know where I was at all " with him ; he would be most affectionate towards her and then , for no apparent reason , seemed to avoid her for protracted periods . |
| 29 | I was at all times impressed by their standard of workmanship . |
| 30 | ‘ My friends were n't going to take any nonsense from me and if I was at all |