Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was upstairs with the other two , she could have just taken the other one |
| 2 | Well the next morning I was up at the top gate on picket and erm came with his van and he he spelted up through and the lads jumped one side well , I 'm nearly sixty five I did n't jump so quickly . |
| 3 | I was n't at the official opening on 14 June but discovered it two days later . |
| 4 | I was n't in the adopt-an-orphan business . |
| 5 | I was n't in the actual throe er , er I wa I 've always been more or less a loner . |
| 6 | Yeah , I know th th th there 's three floors of it and I was , I was on like the bottom floor so |
| 7 | ‘ I was just in the right place at the right time , I guess . |
| 8 | I was also on the receiving end of some pranks played on me by the cameramen . |
| 9 | Somebody knew and I was soon outside the front door . |
| 10 | I was thus in the interesting position of paying to be patronized , asset-stripping my future and still cutting a despicable figure . |
| 11 | I could hear Jamie and the girl running after me shouting , but I was already past the old chip shop and the war memorial and picking up speed . |
| 12 | I enrolled for ‘ Art for Beginners ’ and later went down to the centre where the tutor had obtained a model for us from whom to do quick sketches — so I was in at the deep end . |
| 13 | At the time , the idea of a strong exclusive relationship was something that I did not actually want and I do n't think that even consciously at that time , I would have sought to have had that kind of relationship with David who was considerably younger than me and also , even though I was deeply into the whole scene and everything it represented , I do n't think I actually wanted to settle down with somebody who was a musician and was leading that sort of life style . |
| 14 | In fact without Barry I was possibly in the deep brown stuff up neck-aways . |
| 15 | I do n't think that one could have a consensus with that regard , I mean people were split really on that issue erm as I have said , personally I was always against the whole thing , against the war in general between Iraq and Iran because it was devastating for both countries . |
| 16 | Too soon , I was out on the other side , dazzled , like a man leaving a cinema in the afternoon . |
| 17 | So so really you 've got er I was out on the medical practices so I know how successful that can be . |
| 18 | Yet she would have been upstairs with the old man before I was out of the moonlit yard . |
| 19 | Not until I was out in the open countryside again , reassured by the songs of the birds and the murmur of streams did I feel that I had emerged from a dream and rejoined the familiar twentieth century . |
| 20 | I thought I was off on the usual , rather tedious type of assignment ! |
| 21 | Ten minutes later I was down on the private beach . |
| 22 | The hour winged past and it seemed no time at all before I was back on the top road waiting in the gathering darkness for the Scarborough bus . |
| 23 | By the 8th June , I was back in the front line . |
| 24 | So by November of the year I left Cambridge I was back in the black — being in the West End had enabled me to pay the overdraft off . |
| 25 | Continuing on past the huge oak door I had observed from the outside was another passage leading to a cloakroom , as the euphemism goes , otherwise a loo and wash basin and turning right I was back in the main area . |
| 26 | But she was frank and inaccessible as a Modigliani nude ; and I was back in the green glow of the glade — except that this time I too was observed . |
| 27 | I was there for the full week , being lucky enough to have a brother living in Crosby , so was able to take in most of the events and sights of interest , as well as having the pleasure of meeting old comrades at the Cunard Building |
| 28 | I was n't as I was there in the early seventies f for my first and then subsequently . |
| 29 | as if in answer to the prophecy I had written in Amsterdam in the Hotel Brabant after visiting the exhibition of Picasso 's Guernica , I was now in the very presence of love itself , in the form of the hero imagined there and then . |
| 30 | ‘ I was once on the receiving end of one I think when I bought a suit in Hong Kong . |