Example sentences of "i [was/were] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Listen lawman , I wuz brought up on the streets . |
| 2 | He is teasing me , as the hon. Member for Normanton ( Mr. O'Brien ) and I were teased occasionally in the Standing Committee on the Local Government Finance Bill during the past three weeks . |
| 3 | My brother and I were brought up in the Catholic faith . |
| 4 | I were knocked back on the bloody floor . |
| 5 | Through the communicating voice tube I was invited up to the bridge . |
| 6 | She was hard at work in her jealously private workshop , though she called in briefly at the library from time to time , and I was invited back to the Lodge for meals some evenings . |
| 7 | I was situated immediately behind the cameraman , being at the organ and playing for the service . |
| 8 | At eighteen , I was called up for the Army and I was three years there . |
| 9 | I was called away to the hospital so I left her at the house waiting for Nigel to turn up to collect her . ’ |
| 10 | It happened that I was called back to the farm on the following Thursday to " cleanse " a cow and was in the byre when Dodson the drover called to pick up Blossom . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The fact was that all sorts of strange gear-shifts were taking place within my psyche , and I was eaten up by the morbid drama of Frankenstein . |
| 13 | I had thought I might stroll out towards the famous Liseberg Gardens , but I got no more than a couple of hundred yards before I was turned back by the pitiless downpour . |
| 14 | It was a relief when I was moved on to the Sports Desk ; these were gains and losses of a different kind and they did n't involve people getting killed . |
| 15 | ‘ This morning ( 20 February ) I was moved back into the ward as I am now off the danger list . |
| 16 | Caught unawares I was dragged helplessly into the nightmare world of The Catacombs . |
| 17 | Caught unawares I was dragged helplessly into the nightmare world of The Catacombs . |
| 18 | I was dragged out of the cave , through the waterfall , to lie on my back gazing up at the fast-moving clouds in the blue sky ; and I thought to myself , Those clouds are free , just as I was until now . |
| 19 | I was dragged back into the boat almost immediately . |
| 20 | As I was swept along by the noisy laughing crowd out into the tropical evening I persistently wanted to know what had happened to the dog . |
| 21 | As I slid to the floor I was kicked hard in the face with a slippered foot . |
| 22 | ‘ I said that if I was turfed out by the trade union vote I would see Neil Kinnock and we would then both issue a statement afterwards , ’ he said . |
| 23 | I was fed up with the European promoters who seemed obsessed by the American sprinters . |
| 24 | I was fed up with the yucky mouldy silicone round the edge and reckoned a proper job should be done on it . |
| 25 | You said er , I told , I told him I was fed up with the General Secretary of this union that had n't given us any backing and you said sorry Phil , but I 'm not the General Secretary . |
| 26 | I think I was destroyed long before the divorce courts . |
| 27 | I was struck too by the way in which we started the programme by considering the dangers of the situation and there 's no doubt that that 's correct , but it is important to say , perhaps the most important thing is that the end of is n't in the Soviet Union and the break up of the Soviet Empire is an enormously positive event for all of us , for the citizens of the Soviet Union and for us in the West it gives the opportunity for much greater stability , real stability , peace and prosperity then ever existed under the old regime . |
| 28 | I was treated abominably by the police when I was assaulted in the home |
| 29 | I was chased mercilessly about the streets by my campaign assistant , Simon Heffer , who is now the chief leader-writer of the Daily Telegraph but whom I knew in those days as a fellow ( but younger ) old boy from Chelmsford . |
| 30 | It must have been then that I was blown up by the land-mine , which may well have knocked out Private Prescott as well . ’ |