Example sentences of "[pron] was [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ Once , a long time ago , I was of Wrath in the far northwest . |
| 2 | In that case of Appleford ( Appleford 's Case ( 1672 ) 1 Mod.Rep. 82 ) there was a mandamus brought , to restore him to his fellowship : it was returned , that by the statutes of the college , for misdemeanour they had a power to turn him out ; and that the Bishop of Winchester was visitor , and that he was turned out pro crimine enormi , and had appealed to the bishop , who confirmed the expulsion ; and the particular cause was not returned : I was of counsel for the college , and we omitted the cause in the return for that reason , because indeed it was not so true as it should have been . |
| 3 | Up to a certain point I was succeeding in both roles , driven as I was towards success by anxiety and the fear of failure . |
| 4 | ‘ I thought I was under contract to Paul Lexington Productions . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I was under pressure from my grandfather to become a teacher and that 's the last thing I wanted to be . |
| 6 | Like every other Secretary of State who has ever been in charge of social security , I was under pressure from the Treasury . |
| 7 | I was past caring about feeling guilt and shame and everything was collapsing anyway , so I just looked straight back at her , resigned , and after a while I shook my head . |
| 8 | Er , no I was on holiday for a week |
| 9 | ‘ After all , I was on holiday at the time . ’ |
| 10 | Well , now , I was n't , cos I was on holiday at the last meeting , so I could n't check , I have down Grace , but it was also queried at the time . |
| 11 | Last year , right , I was on holiday in the South of France and I , I 'd made friends with these two German people and I 'm a bit wary of German people anyway , cos of what 's happened and everything . |
| 12 | Sort of , when we went to see Jan 's mother for Christmas , I was saying to myself yeah , mm this time last year I was on holiday from work |
| 13 | ‘ You remember four years ago , when I was on holiday by the sea , in Brittany ? ’ |
| 14 | Yes , if you can , if you can recognise it , or if you 've got , or if , several members of erm , several students we had when I was on grocery at Camden , we had to , I think it was twenty eight on Saturday afternoon , they might have been on checkouts , well I mean , they 're still scheduled to my , I 'm saying out of that about four of them er , are still working at Camden full-time . |
| 15 | But your fresh deputy should be the one who 's giving you the feedback , I mean , all the time I was on provisions in my last department , and nobody ever told me how I was doing . |
| 16 | I was on top of the world . |
| 17 | ‘ One minute I was on top of the world and everything was going right . |
| 18 | if it 's worth trying to hit anything I was on top of him |
| 19 | Well twenty years ago I was on programmes like this , saying that doctors who said that Valium and the other tranquillizers were perfectly safe were talking rubbish and that there was every possibility that there would be problems found in the future , if we kept prescribing these drugs for vast numbers of people . |
| 20 | I was on watch at the time getting colder and colder and wetter and wetter . |
| 21 | Some years before , when he was hunting for a mill in the West Country , and I was on tour with some show or other , he wrote me : |
| 22 | " I was on teams with older girls and if they drank I would follow suit , " she explained . |
| 23 | Okay fine , he then gave me , I did n't know , I was on Prozac for a month . |
| 24 | I was taken into the , my wife died in January of nineteen eighty nine , I was taken into the local psychiatric hospital at in the December of nineteen eighty nine and I was told I was gon na be given an experimental drug , I was told nothing about it or any anything to do with any of the side effects , I I was in th I was on Prozac for about four days , I suffered horrendous side effects , shaking and one thing and another . |
| 25 | Friends were surprised at how often I would stay on their floors after an evening out , and I would alternate between trips to my parents ' house in Wales and visits to friends from pre-army days , who I would surprise by telephoning to say I was on leave from the regular army . |
| 26 | : I was on leave from the WRAF and waiting at a bus stop in the town on my way to visit my grandmother . |
| 27 | ‘ I was on leave in Dorset , yes . ’ |
| 28 | I was on tablets for two days and then taken off , just like that . |
| 29 | I thought it right to apprise Cyril of what had happened at Muirfield , but having corresponded with the Seniors secretary , he assured me I was on course for election . |
| 30 | Okay so I was on savings at the bottom of erm the sheets . |