Example sentences of "[pron] was [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | At the time I was of the same colouring ( there 's a portrait of me hanging at Burpham ) . |
2 | ‘ Ken , of course , was fairly right-wing and I was of the opposite persuasion . ’ |
3 | ‘ I was on the other end of the question for most of my life as a British Telecom customer manager , and I always tried to see the view of the underdog , because there is just a chance he might be right , ’ he said . |
4 | K. R. At Garston , there was a toilet on the main road and when we were on nights , and there was one officer walking along and I was on the other side — we dare n't cross the road . |
5 | … In a court it would be so easy if I was on the other side to get up and say that in respect of eight of the conditions ‘ We complied and we only contravened the suspended solids condition and we 're very sorry it was 30,000 p.p.m. but you 're not gon na cane us for that are you , Mr Magistrate ? |
6 | Unfortunately , I was on the other side of the river when I saw him , and by the time I 'd got round there , he 'd vanished . |
7 | I was on the other side with the boxes , waiting for him . |
8 | When I just felt that I was on the absolute fringe of going berserk . |
9 | I started going out in London and I was on the first step of the ladder . ’ |
10 | I was on the downhill slope of a new novel and needed to visit the Reading Room at the British Museum most days . |
11 | And even when I had assured myself I was on the right road , I felt compelled to stop the car a moment to take stock , as it were , I decided to step out and stretch my legs a little and when I did so , I received a stronger impression than ever of being perched on the side of a hill . |
12 | I knew I was on the right track when I felt that thrill of pleasure at placing object , not painting it . |
13 | I had lunch and then sat on the wheelbarrow swatting flies , neither willing to go further out of my way , nor to return , just in case I was on the right track . |
14 | Not outstanding success , for I was still missing nine out of ten bites , hut enough to suggest I was on the right track . |
15 | I suppose I could have joined in except I was on the second tier of the other stand . |
16 | I was lucky , I was on the second floor ; Ana was not so lucky . |
17 | ‘ Of course I was on the same squadron as him for a time . ’ |
18 | I do n't think I was on the same wavelength as the Prime Minister almost from the start , although I did work for her beforehand and try to pull together some of the policies . |
19 | I was on the same delegation to Russia and the Ukraine . |
20 | I shouted thanks and crossed over , though I was on the same side as every local runner . |
21 | Yeah but I was , I was on the same place as I was one behind him ! |
22 | Once more I was on the short list . |
23 | What is more , I was on the organising committee , so I resigned and I never again exhibited at the Independents exhibition . |
24 | I was on the communal house phone , which is chained to the wall tighter than a medieval Bible , when the doorbell rang . |
25 | I was on the top salary , 11 a week , and he was on 9 . |
26 | But even here I was on the very lip of the world , peering over one of the suture lines of the globe and into the darkness of yesterday . |
27 | Shit I , I was on the wrong prep and bad mark |
28 | I knew I was on the wrong track when the tall reeds broke to reveal the brown-bellied river . |
29 | I was without the religious sense of my family . |
30 | Angie Bowie : I actually met David for the first time when he was with feathers at the Roundhouse and I was with the European head of Mercury Records , a gentleman called Lou Reisner . |