Example sentences of "i [was/were] [verb] [prep] the [adv] " in BNC.

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1 And I was looking in the yesterday and they sell them in You Ca n't Go Wrong for five ninety nine for Robert .
2 Of course , I was insulated from the more unpleasant aspects of city life , wallowing in the luxury of the Savoy , being waited on hand and foot .
3 Secondly , I was struck by the unexpectedly high use of nonsense words , used in order to signal a breakdown in the speaker 's ongoing mental processing — when a word has become completely unretrievable .
4 Since I was living with the most out gay man I know , I was n't short of an opinion on anything to do with anything in faggotdom , or at least the social side of it .
5 My employment with CBC began at the salary of $150. per month which was very acceptable , and I was assigned to the newly created post as Talks Producer .
6 I was fascinated by the nearly naked figures of ladies in different positions that were painted on it .
7 I was issued after the immediately after the briefing I was issued with two weapons a revolver and a shot gun .
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