Example sentences of "i [was/were] [adv] [art] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Colin said : ‘ I am renewing old acquaintances as I was previously the site services manager at the end of the South Morecambe project . |
| 2 | I realised many years ago that I was not a studio painter . |
| 3 | I was n't a founder member . |
| 4 | ‘ I was n't a Girl Guide for nothing . |
| 5 | I said an er I said do you think that I was n't a career woman , I said I gave it all up for yo er to have to look after my young babies and then when the babies were no longer young , when I got through that phase of my life I went back and combined looking after a home very adequately , thank you ! |
| 6 | I was n't a Trade Unionist so I did n't bother . |
| 7 | If I was n't a hat designer I 'm sure I 'd have loads of hats anyway . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ If I was just a film actor maybe I would have done because that 's where all the films get made . |
| 9 | I was just a care assistant then , and I did n't know her too well at that time . |
| 10 | I 'm sure Malcolm and Vivienne had discussions but at that stage , I was just the Saturday lad . |
| 11 | More recently the revelation that I was also a Punch columnist has provoked an equally predictable and ill-informed reaction . |
| 12 | I was also the squadron instructor and the Link training instructor . |
| 13 | If I was a Christian at all — and I was n't sure that I was — I thought I was probably a custard Christian . |
| 14 | eight o'clock this morning , who the hell that was from , I do n't know , I was out the washing line I come flying in but I never got it , and nobody 's rung . |
| 15 | I sympathized and threw in a few choice obscenities and ‘ hanging 's too good for ‘ ems ’ but made a note to pick up a few watches next time I was down the Brick Lane midnight market . |
| 16 | The week I was there the Stornoway Gazette had a page three article celebrating a fourth contract for the firm that would mean 120 jobs . |
| 17 | I called in to see Dad before coming here and while I was there an insurance investigator called Tom O'Neill came to see him . |
| 18 | if we 're serious about that we need I think to review that very regularly , because I moved offices and discovered I was still a fire officer for a part of the office I was n't even part of , |
| 19 | Well like any other shop lad , and although worked with me father I was still a shop lad . |
| 20 | I was now a climbing convert ! |
| 21 | but I was only a gingerbread woman |
| 22 | How do you know ? he said , implying I was only the shop lad and what did I know ? |
| 23 | Well it was a wee bit under because I was only an office clerk , I , I was n't the junior but by then had come there and there were other , other clerks , some girls who 'd come into the office and I 'd got a little bit of step up you see and took over a little bit more important work , erm , I did just before I went in the Army have a dabble at erm running times , that was preparing the schedules for buses . |