Example sentences of "i was [verb] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Good , fine , I 'm not surprised , I was looking in the wrong rate book was n't I ? |
| 2 | Well , the people were so impressed they , you could have heard a pin drop in that hall , and he really in our Welsh way he put it over proper you know and erm the Chairman made a quite a nice remark in the end he said , Now he said we must remember these two fellows here , I said , They are Welsh and they speak Welsh as their first language they do n't speak it for fancy they use it every day and he said I think they 've done exceedingly well er to come down here and give us the Because what happen I was sit in the front row and somebody asked me a question and he said , Perhaps er Dafydd there can answer . |
| 3 | This was a vehicle with all mod cons at the rear of the bus , which I had followed many times and checked on its progress flying over the route ; oddly enough , on my last night in Mespot I was to sleep in the Imperial Airways rest fort at Rutbah Wells , I had refuelled there many times and had wondered with awe at the vast ugly route-flying Imperial aircraft — Handley Page HP42s — and even more so at the passengers who took an even greater interest in our tiny single-engined Wapiti aircraft , and furthermore asked endless questions about our aircraft and of our life in Baghdad . |
| 4 | : I was serving in the Med fleet in HMS Saints sailing to Tobruk . |
| 5 | I was asked in the Straight Talking video last December — and I am still amazed at the number of people who believe that he questions on that video were stage managed , which they were n't — when morale would improve . |
| 6 | Faced with a fact that was visually undeniable I was snared in the total impossibility of ‘ understanding ’ it . |
| 7 | In no time , I was established in the small world of the university as lecturer . |
| 8 | A. Quite frankly , when I was approached in the Chinese market , I looked around and wondered where the cameras were . |
| 9 | My period of training took place as I was practising in the clinical area . |
| 10 | I was put in the bottom class . |
| 11 | Instinctively I turned away , and then I realized I was walking in the opposite direction , then running , almost tripping over my own two flat feet . |
| 12 | It was half-past — two in the morning and I was sitting in the front passenger seat in dad 's Cortina while my sister Jean , who was driving , sent it hurtling down the road towards Carlisle . |
| 13 | On the way to our initial meeting I had to change trains , and soon found that I was travelling in the wrong direction . |
| 14 | A.Q. : Towards five-thirty this morning , having just got back from the flower market , I was working in the front quarters of my shop when I got the idea I 'd heard a funny noise just outside the window … |
| 15 | I was working in the British High Commission in er Nigeria . |
| 16 | But something inside me was tugging in the other direction . |