Example sentences of "[pron] was [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the time I was of the same colouring ( there 's a portrait of me hanging at Burpham ) . |
| 2 | ‘ Ken , of course , was fairly right-wing and I was of the opposite persuasion . ’ |
| 3 | K. R. At Garston , there was a toilet on the main road and when we were on nights , and there was one officer walking along and I was on the other side — we dare n't cross the road . |
| 4 | ‘ I was on the other end of the question for most of my life as a British Telecom customer manager , and I always tried to see the view of the underdog , because there is just a chance he might be right , ’ he said . |
| 5 | … In a court it would be so easy if I was on the other side to get up and say that in respect of eight of the conditions ‘ We complied and we only contravened the suspended solids condition and we 're very sorry it was 30,000 p.p.m. but you 're not gon na cane us for that are you , Mr Magistrate ? |
| 6 | Unfortunately , I was on the other side of the river when I saw him , and by the time I 'd got round there , he 'd vanished . |
| 7 | I was on the other side with the boxes , waiting for him . |
| 8 | When I just felt that I was on the absolute fringe of going berserk . |
| 9 | I started going out in London and I was on the first step of the ladder . ’ |
| 10 | I was on the downhill slope of a new novel and needed to visit the Reading Room at the British Museum most days . |
| 11 | Er men were coming , young men were coming out of the forces and er they wanted their jobs back and er I began to wonder what was going to happen to me , if , because I was on the temporary staff and erm there was no guarantee that I 'd be able to stay erm , and then of course erm I was thinking of probably getting married and erm er the salary at that stage was n't er , was n't very much to get married on . |
| 12 | I was last on the County Council between nineteen eighty one and nineteen eighty five , and I was on the Gipsy Working Party at that time , and nothing happened except scandalous public meetings where officers were , were allowed to be crucified by Conservative chairpersons and not a site appeared , public or private . |
| 13 | I was on the defensive and wore my makeup as a barrier . |
| 14 | I knew I was on the right track when I felt that thrill of pleasure at placing object , not painting it . |
| 15 | And even when I had assured myself I was on the right road , I felt compelled to stop the car a moment to take stock , as it were , I decided to step out and stretch my legs a little and when I did so , I received a stronger impression than ever of being perched on the side of a hill . |
| 16 | I had lunch and then sat on the wheelbarrow swatting flies , neither willing to go further out of my way , nor to return , just in case I was on the right track . |
| 17 | Not outstanding success , for I was still missing nine out of ten bites , hut enough to suggest I was on the right track . |
| 18 | I was lucky , I was on the second floor ; Ana was not so lucky . |
| 19 | I suppose I could have joined in except I was on the second tier of the other stand . |
| 20 | I think it was erm a bit of a ploy that erm I was extra to establishment really and I was only temporary , on the temporary staff until erm well a year or so after the war when all these things were sort of sorted out and erm I was on the permanent |
| 21 | I shouted thanks and crossed over , though I was on the same side as every local runner . |
| 22 | I do n't think I was on the same wavelength as the Prime Minister almost from the start , although I did work for her beforehand and try to pull together some of the policies . |
| 23 | ‘ Of course I was on the same squadron as him for a time . ’ |
| 24 | I was on the same delegation to Russia and the Ukraine . |
| 25 | Yeah but I was , I was on the same place as I was one behind him ! |
| 26 | Once more I was on the short list . |
| 27 | What is more , I was on the organising committee , so I resigned and I never again exhibited at the Independents exhibition . |
| 28 | I was on the communal house phone , which is chained to the wall tighter than a medieval Bible , when the doorbell rang . |
| 29 | I was on the top salary , 11 a week , and he was on 9 . |
| 30 | But even here I was on the very lip of the world , peering over one of the suture lines of the globe and into the darkness of yesterday . |