Example sentences of "i was [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As an example close to home , it would be a sanction much more powerful than an SEC if , as head of audit of my firm , I was called in to that panel to be told that if my firm wanted the institutional shareholders to vote their proxies in favour of our being reappointed auditors to this or that company , we would have to mend our ways in some respect . |
| 2 | About twelve years later , when I was looking back on that meeting with Dana , I wrote the following poem : |
| 3 | I was turned down by all the universities on my UCCA application form , because I had received a bad report from my headmaster at Downside School who said I took drugs , which was true , but was also an admission made to him in confidence . |
| 4 | ‘ I was sent out on some ridiculous calls at Christmas , ’ said Mr Hunsley . |
| 5 | I was thrown out by some irate trendy who kept muttering something about royalties . |
| 6 | I was taken out to another room , sat down and then heard that thick voice , full of soft , sickly fruit . |
| 7 | And I would have said , Ray , please I was brought up with this , and it 's vulgar to discuss money over the telephone , erm , you know do n't dream of paying me anything , I 'm just ever so grateful for the opportunity . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , I was brought up in that orphanage in Dalston , and that 's what they called me there . |
| 9 | I did , so I was creeping up like this |
| 10 | I was coming across but I was held up by this lot . ’ |
| 11 | Erm , because I was going out for half past two and er , she rang , she says he has n't rung yet so I assume he 's going to be home . |
| 12 | I was going out with this guy called John Colley whose relations were sort of minor gangsters in London and I went to work for them because they did n't mind my not being English . |
| 13 | Mm , yeah but I was coming out at half past nine |
| 14 | ‘ I was climbing up through this favela ; I should n't even have been there . |