Example sentences of "i [was/were] [verb] [adv prt] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She explained : ‘ I was called in at the last minute to help style a photographic session for Kylie about 18 months ago and it went from there . |
| 2 | ‘ I have n't a clue — I was freaking out at the time . |
| 3 | I only explained I was listening in at the time . |
| 4 | Bedfield was the village I was living in at the time . |
| 5 | Sue likes me … lots of people like me … when I was helping out at the meat counter the other week , Jim said we should go bowling one night . |
| 6 | I was hanging around at the back of the church because I wanted a word with the vicar . |
| 7 | Our housework was hard and long and laborious and erm we 'd got two children to look after and then I 'd got my brother who did n't leave home until he was thirty and er , you had n't got the time , you know , to do too many things , so er my interest was the young wives ' and it was really a as regards the erm the Guild itself , I was thrown in at the deep end when this lady who was with my mother , mother was treasurer , she was secretary , erm she used to come down for me and , I know you should n't canvass but she used to canvass and say erm you know the voting , you know , will you , will you come and vote ? |
| 8 | Well I was thrown in at the deep end Different persons came in maybe if we had a job in a hurry and they would say , Oh you 're on at such and such a time at this . |
| 9 | There were times when I was starting in at the cattle that it stood between me and the road . |
| 10 | I had a kind of ear infection which caused giddiness and I had to come out of the West End play I was appearing in at the time , The Rose Tattoo . |
| 11 | I was toddling around at the time getting into mischief the way any normal , healthy three-year-old boy does . |
| 12 | ‘ Most of the trauma I was going through at the time is written into that film , ’ he admitted reflectively . |