Example sentences of "i was [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last week I was gutted at the sale of Batts , but last night I was so happy that the scum failed . |
| 2 | ‘ When Boro played Peterborough United in the Rumbelows League Cup I was cheering on the lads . |
| 3 | I knew that when at last I was demobilised from the Waaf I would have to return to my peacetime occupation as a secretary in London , for the simple reason that my employers had been paying me my full salary all the time I had been in the Forces , that is , making up the difference between my Waaf pay and what I would have been earning with them . |
| 4 | I was going mad : my mum was swearing at me , I was swearing at her ; finally I just lost my temper and said . |
| 5 | I was destined for great things — Oxford or Cambridge , a string of letters after my name , a successful academic career , and would no doubt end up being the first woman Prime Minister . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | Assuming that I 'd been able to drag the dinghy in a fairly straight line — though I might have gone astray a bit when I was stumbling in the mud — Joanna should be lying more or less straight ahead , and a good deal nearer than when I 'd left , for it was near high water then , and now it was about the last of the ebb . |
| 9 | I was pretending to be another man , but losing my own heart . |
| 10 | That is until I was invited with Lawrance Collingwood to the Wigmore Hall and heard Peter perform Les Illuminations [ May IS 1943 ] . |
| 11 | That was totally unplanned. erm I was told by a friend that there was erm Pebble Mill were going to organise an Environment Project Competition for Great Britain , and they suggested I sent for a form , which I did , and filled it in , and erm to my astonishment a film crew came down and filmed the pond , and later on I was invited with my husband to Pebble Mill to get this award and it was given me by Virginia Mackenna and Bill Waters , and David Bellamy was there , and erm we had a wonderful time . |
| 12 | I was invited to lunch one day . |
| 13 | First of all I was invited to lunch in Leeds and they sent the helicopter for me , piloted by Captain John Leeson , who had done all the flying for the aerial shots in the film . |
| 14 | Micheline sounded excited to hear from me and I was invited to the group 's meeting a few weeks later . |
| 15 | Today I was invited to tea at Lady Emily 's to meet Krishnaji . |
| 16 | We would meet secretly and , when she knew her father was away , I was invited to her home . |
| 17 | I was invited to the school in the village of Atgor . |
| 18 | Last year I was invited to Wimbledon on the big day by ticket-holding members of the media . |
| 19 | ‘ I lived my life in Siglo XX as described in the book until 1980 , when I was invited to a conference on women in Denmark . |
| 20 | A fortnight ago , I was invited to a meeting of Somali refugees in East Ham town hall . |
| 21 | I was invited to the Royal Premiere in London to view the production before it came to our theatre . |
| 22 | I was led into all these commitments in a very friendly and deferential spirit , and in a similar spirit of friendship and hospitality I was invited to numerous social engagements , from impressive lunch in honour of the Minister of Education to an invitation to a private home in Jaipur , where my kind host and hostess had gone to the trouble of preparing sandwiches , cake , chips ( without the fish ) and pudding , in case I should not like the Indian dishes served for the other guests ! |
| 23 | I went to erm the guy I work with is a Belgian and I was invited to his birthday party . |
| 24 | I was invited by two revolutionary movements , the Black Panthers and the Palestinians … . these two groups have a very strong erotic charge . |
| 25 | Many years and many visits later I was invited by Tim Littler to become the official wheel tapper for his exotic Orient Express voyages to Champagne being launched in August this year . |
| 26 | A few years back I was invited by the Church of England to be an ecumenical guest at a consultation , held at Ely , on the charismatic renewal movement . |
| 27 | I was invited by the owners of a struggling estate in Bardez province to look around their 300-year-old house . |
| 28 | Because I must have been noticed , I was invited by the families to play in mixed doubles . |
| 29 | Recently , I was invited inside the hallowed walls of Eastleigh Works , usually the domain of British Rail Engineering Limited but during weekends partly dedicated to ERPS , the Eastleigh Railway Preservation Society . |
| 30 | I thought it would make me feel less helpless if I was opposed by something definite . |