Example sentences of "i was [verb] [adv prt] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1672 , for example , the Dutch Cromwell , de Witt , was torn limb from limb in the street by a frenzied mob , and in 1986 I was beaten up in a bar . |
| 2 | There was also the night when I was buzzing round in the office car , making the routine late calls at the district police stations and ambulance headquarters in Cardiff , just before midnight . |
| 3 | But then , having exhausted his recollections of the circumstances of his writing the paper , he switched to more personal matters and enquired carefully how I was getting on in a way that made me reel that my mission had been worthwhile and that I had by no means wasted his morning . |
| 4 | ‘ I was locked up in a room with a ghost , in the dark . ’ |
| 5 | I was wrapped up in an officer 's uniform ; you could n't see me for fur and leather . |
| 6 | I was brought up in a generation where there were only two kinds of girls — girls who did and girls who did n't . |
| 7 | I was brought up in a hard school , Mrs Willow , and I do n't forget it . |
| 8 | I think with erm , I I was brought up in a household where it was com , completely legitimate to admit to being depressed and that you would just have to cope , I think cope perhaps my most |
| 9 | I was brought up in a pit village near Bishop Auckland and I never knew my father . |
| 10 | But I was brought up in a Catholic Home you see . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , I was brought up in a vicarage myself and know how things are or can be , ’ he said confusedly . |
| 12 | No heroes or heroines from TV ever entered my world , for I was brought up in a society that banned television . |
| 13 | I was brought up in a different era where you had to entertain yourself . |
| 14 | It is simply that I was brought up in the East of Scotland and have lived in places whither the Orangemen walketh not , neither in triumph nor provocation . |
| 15 | I was brought up in the world of the arts because , apart from the Rothschild side which had some influence on me , my mother was a completely Bloomsbury figure , and her mother was a great friend of Matisse and a distinguished collector — she was a Strachey , very English . |
| 16 | As a male Caucasian with a father who had died of a coronary thrombosis at the age of 59 , I was brought up in the smoky atmosphere of a northern industrial town . |
| 17 | Like most people , I was brought up in the belief that a nightmare was something bad that happened while you were asleep . |
| 18 | And it it was , I mean I was brought up in the country and it , I found it really shocking that people had to live like that , you know . |
| 19 | I was brought up in the country , on a farm you know , so I 'll try and sort of make you know equal amount of flowers in each , and then er it can be halved . |
| 20 | ‘ I was brought up in the countryside . |
| 21 | I was brought up in the cloister , and have Latin and French as well as English and Welsh . ’ |
| 22 | I was brought up in the days of the old Police Acts . |
| 23 | It was an unfortunate evening for me : I was knocked out in the second round , the only time I was knocked out , either at Eton or at Oxford . |
| 24 | Before I landed Brookside I was washing up in a wine bar so the experience obviously came in handy for playing Chrissie . ’ |
| 25 | Says Harrison : ‘ I was thrashing about in the water with all my clothes on and ended up being dragged down . |
| 26 | I was waiting out in the garden for you to come back . ’ |
| 27 | When I was tipped back in the dentist 's chair |
| 28 | It was just as I was sitting down in the living room with my cup of coffee that I realised I 'd left my bag on the train . |
| 29 | So I was laid out in the back of the van on the bed and he 's driving down this field to put the tent , because it had little er bits you know where it 's marked out for you to camp , and I 'm driving around in the back saying , yes you 've , you 've just missed the fence there and you know . |
| 30 | I was caught up in a closed , warm world of physical pleasure . |