Example sentences of "i was [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | You know , I was Jessie and he was Harry and that 's all there was to it ! |
2 | ‘ If I was Sam , I 'd want to achieve a better car , ’ Jazz said . |
3 | One of my best-known remarks was when I was Chancellor and Geoffrey Howe was my opponent , and he made a rather damaging criticism of what I was doing and I did n't want to spend time on that . |
4 | I always seem to , I think we , we were always at Stanford Hall that we must , it was a must that we have a good programme because if somebody comes and there 's nothing doing , they think well you know yo I , I , you see I suppose I 've got that orientated into Guild work but a friend of mine enticed me to go to er a club and erm it 's just simply for any age group , any sex male or female , but you must bereaved you know and erm she is a widow and I was widow , so I went but you see we , we sat round and you just , there was nothing organised and to me who had always been organised , I just felt so like a lost soul you know and er then one chappie put some records on and you cou and you could n't dance to them and I said oh , you know to me I thought wh you know but I do n't want to do it , I 've got enough to do but , I , I was straight away , I was looking for the organisation behind it you know . |
5 | I was horn in March 1947 , at the peak of the Bulge : more babies horn that month than ever before or after , and carried through the terrible winter of 1946–47 . |
6 | Cos I was bit worried about er him staying under the covers all night . |
7 | I was bit , in front of the bull and the bull got close enough to dribble on me . |
8 | Oh no I did n't I said I I did I was bit embarrassed about doing it because I 've already changed it twice , he said well he rang me again I said oh he must of got his records wrong . |
9 | Then she said : ‘ The record books will show I was Britain 's best . |
10 | In my teens , similar doubts lured me into the darker recesses of the family 's medical encyclopedia , there to discover I was Britain 's first recorded case of Futtock 's Syndrome . |
11 | I mean I was showing the figures and proved that er it was n't paying its way but to me it had always been our shop , you know , from when I was child and wonderful memories you know . |
12 | Before I was Minister of Health , I was inclined to be sceptical of the utility of this hierarchy , especially of the tier interposed between the minister and the direct administration of the hospitals . |
13 | I would have given my right arm to have achieved such an agreement when I was Minister for Aviation between 1984 and 1987 . |
14 | The early experience of ESAs that I had when I was Minister for Agriculture , Fisheries and Food showed the policy to be important , helpful and constructive . |
15 | And he asked me to telephone him while you were at the Casa Madrid , and pretend I was Miguelito . ’ |
16 | At the time of this incident I was patrol inspector at . |
17 | I was Mouncy Street . |
18 | I was fool enough to think you might want to see me . ’ |
19 | I 've spent 13 years travelling the world with badminton — I was coach to the Australian side at the last World Championships — and it will be nice to spend some time at home . |
20 | I was night relief nurse in Hope , a women 's acute medical ward , and tonight was one of the rare nights when all three Hope night nurses were on together . |
21 | I was night work , till I retired . |
22 | Right , so then you 'd guess that I was Saint Paul 's Cathedral . |
23 | I thought I was superstition and not writing in the . |
24 | I got it while I was prisoner there , after Otterburn . ’ |
25 | Although it is 40 years since I was called-up , the memories of that part of my life are still vivid and I still have my flying logbook to refresh my memory . |
26 | ‘ I delivered hundreds , and I met hundreds more while I was matron of Thorn House . |
27 | Bartenders , hoteliers and B-girls kept asking me if I was Tunney 's brother . |
28 | I was wall papering with that |
29 | Anyway that 's what that was the time when I was sea sick , when we come across the channel . |
30 | There 's a number in the er when I was Church Street so that 's a few years now so it needs to be checked . |