Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] i [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After confirming that I was n't taking any medication , she gave me two small white pills with a glass of water and sat me down , explaining that my Mother had been seriously burned and the pills were to help me with the shock when I saw her . |
| 2 | ‘ And you were fighting me from the moment we met again . ’ |
| 3 | I do n't think I would have made quite so much impact , however , if it had n't been for the fact that , while they were carrying me round the church yelling , ‘ Aliens ! ’ 'Jesus Christ ! ’ and ‘ The snake cometh ! ’ the roof fell in . |
| 4 | I had suffered from these cramps four years before and in Tokyo they were bothering me from the start . |
| 5 | Tell them what you were telling me on the phone yesterday … ’ |
| 6 | I asked the doctor who was seeing me in the hospital antenatal clinic whether or not I should stop taking the drug and he said it was OK and that I should just carry on . |
| 7 | I asked the doctor who was seeing me in the hospital antenatal clinic whether or not I should stop taking the drug and he said it was OK and that I should just carry on . |
| 8 | Gyggle was driving me along the coast road to Brighton as he spoke . |
| 9 | The day came suddenly and before I knew it my father was driving me into the town of Ipswich to drop me off near the studio . |
| 10 | I was in a shop once , buying scented candles , and on the radio came Steve Wright with a collage of Smiths ’ songs , and I got a distinct chill , almost as though the hand of death was tapping me on the shoulder , saying : ‘ put yer candles down , it 's time to go ! ’ ’ |
| 11 | One time I did and he was tapping me on the shoulder saying , ‘ I 've broken a string ’ . |
| 12 | He was in highly sociable mood and , bereft of any equals , was addressing me on the subject of the decline of western civilisation and the loss of old standards . |
| 13 | Nour had taken me by the shoulders and was pushing me towards the pool . |
| 14 | Another small farm was shown me as the place where the mother of a young baby had forgotten to place the poker over its cradle : as a consequence the child , unprotected by iron , had been stolen by the fairies and replaced by a ‘ changeling ’ . |
| 15 | He guessed rightly that little Didier Bluot was leading me into the cemetery and would direct me to Montaine 's grave . |
| 16 | They pulled me up off the floor with my hands up behind my back and they were walking me out of the chemist with my arms up and my head pushed down and one of them was kicking me in the back of my legs to get me over to the car . |
| 17 | I dreamt that my mother was calling me from the bottom of a deep , deep well . |
| 18 | The answer was staring me in the face . |
| 19 | Whenever my mother and I had visited her from Štanjel , the first thing Aunt Ema always did was to call me into the larder , which was dark and cool , and give me a large spoonful of the most delicious cream from which she used to make butter , saying in the Mavhinje dialect : ‘ Take this , beautiful , because I know that you do n't like cream in your coffee . ’ |
| 20 | The registrar was regarding me over the top of his spectacles and trying not to look at his watch . |
| 21 | As I prowled about outside the garden wall , it came on me with a start that a young , man was regarding me over the barrel of a pistol . |
| 22 | Well he was poking me in the groin . |
| 23 | The next moment I was on the floor and one was kicking me and the other was hitting me in the face . |
| 24 | She was clocking me from the corner of one bleary eye . |