Example sentences of "i [was/were] [verb] [prep] [art] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My brother and I were booked for a 5 day course on Harperig Reservoir , with one instructor and a group of about 10 children . |
| 2 | I was looking for a 4 × 4 vehicle and either building could have housed this year 's import quota . |
| 3 | I was looking for the twenty-five pounds . |
| 4 | I was listening to the two in the back working their way through a typical RAF ditty with the repetitive chorus of , ‘ There 's only one bar — BOO ! |
| 5 | I was born on the twenty eighth of December nineteen ten . |
| 6 | I was born in the seventies she might be in this one . |
| 7 | This helps to structure the content of its programmes as well as its public image , and until the mid-1980s , Radio I was aiming at the 16–25 age group . |
| 8 | Oh I was reading about the twenty three stone ! |
| 9 | I was running in the 100 and 200 metres with some very imposing names : Don Quarrie , who was the Olympic 200 metres champion from Montreal three years earlier ; Allan Wells , the British number one ; James Gilkes from Guyana , a world-class runner ; and the big , imposing figure of Haseley Crawford , the Montreal 100 metres gold medallist . |
| 10 | In August 1942 I was delivered to No 7 Squadron at RAF Oakington by an oppo , Geoff Wornersley , who shortly followed me to PFF . |
| 11 | No I think I was restricted to the one brainwave this week . |
| 12 | ‘ I was attacked by a dozen vagabonds two miles from here . |
| 13 | wondering what I was doing on the twenty seventh . |
| 14 | WATCHING the collapse of the opinion polls ' projections of a hung Parliament early last Friday morning , I was reminded of the 1970 General Election . |
| 15 | Possibly due to my lack of marquetry expertise I was drawn towards the three veneer section , and E.J. Higgs ‘ Light Music ’ ( left ) won third prize in the class . |
| 16 | Erm we had gone down to , to , to Bognor to the christening of her , our nephew and she was n't too , th that was in November , it was sort of middle of November , and something was going wrong there and so when I , when I was retiring on the twenty seventh of November she could n't come in and er |