Example sentences of "i was [vb pp] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last week I was gutted at the sale of Batts , but last night I was so happy that the scum failed . |
| 2 | Since I was pipped at the post for the Periodical Publishers ' Association Columnist of the Year award by Maureen Lipman , star of stage and commercial , I thought I 'd better look up her column in She magazine to see how I might bring my stuff up to state-of-the-art standard . |
| 3 | I was drunk at the time , if you must know . |
| 4 | But for all that he plays no part in the ancestry of my colleague , on whose behalf I was alerted at the mention of his name . |
| 5 | I was met at the door by the commander of the bodyguard , who introduced me to the domestic staff — the cooks , the maids , the rest of the bodyguard and the gardener . |
| 6 | I was dumbfounded at the sight of his shiny blue-black hair , his long-lashed blue eyes and his brown face . |
| 7 | The notice of appeal sets out a number of grounds , but before dealing with the appeal on the merits , I was asked at the outset to rule on what the nature of an appeal from the justices under the Children Act 1989 is , whether it is an appeal in which fresh evidence could be called , that is a full rehearing in the sense that the Crown Court could hear appeals from the juvenile court under the old law . |
| 8 | Imagination from other viewpoints depends on my having already perceived something analogous from the then present and my own , and is undernourished if I was distracted at the time by consideration of the future or of others . |
| 9 | Ashley met me in the Jac that night , listened to my woes , bought me drink when I ran out of money ( I 'm sure I was short-changed at the bar ) even though she probably had less dosh than I did , and listened to my woes all over again when we went back to her mum 's and sat up till God knows when , talking low so we would n't wake Dean in the next room . |
| 10 | I was told at the Bar that in section 25 application cases hearsay evidence was regarded in some family proceedings courts as not admissible . |
| 11 | I was told at the time that this system had been adopted because it was impossible to fit a mechanical servo as fitted to the Series III without major surgery , |
| 12 | The crimps were of course very active and I was told at the time that they would be paid as much as two pounds for every man whom they recruited . |