Example sentences of "i was [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Yeah , I know th th th there 's three floors of it and I was , I was on like the bottom floor so |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Too soon , I was out on the other side , dazzled , like a man leaving a cinema in the afternoon . |
| 5 | So so really you 've got er I was out on the medical practices so I know how successful that can be . |
| 6 | Yet she would have been upstairs with the old man before I was out of the moonlit yard . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I thought I was off on the usual , rather tedious type of assignment ! |
| 9 | Ten minutes later I was down on the private beach . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | By the 8th June , I was back in the front line . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |