Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [prep] that [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | If one wants to be accepted as a mainstream , serious film-maker it does n't strike me , if I were in that position , as a shrewd career move . |
2 | Erm no , I 'm normally I 'm , funny I was over that way last weekend cos er , you know , pop over to the beach and things . |
3 | If they knew I was under that sort of pressure , they 'd stop giving me rides altogether . |
4 | I had a paper to say and they said there was too much money coming in here a week , because you were working that I could n't get anything and I , it said , I wrote , it , it all come when I wrote to say could I have relief off of prescriptions cos I was on that H I V at the time |
5 | Yes that 's how that 's how it was , yes all I was on that gate , I 'd been on that gate myself dozens of times . |
6 | And it 's frightening , but I , I mean , I know from my days at British Telecom , I 'd say I was on that phone , really |
7 | And they thought I was on that plane blown up . |
8 | I was on that plane . |
9 | He really you know made me feel I say I were n't sat there like I was with that fella thinking well he do n't seem to know what he 's saying anyway . |
10 | I was at that time in Jesus Christ , Superstar . |
11 | And I was at that time a married man with two children . |
12 | I was at that time really completely persuaded of the relevance and interest of this approach and of this subject matter . |
13 | Julian Charley , to Edward England , my publisher , and to St. John 's College , Nottingham , where I was at that time principal , and by whose Governors I had been given study leave in order to write the book . |
14 | So my mother brought us all to on the train and er I was at that time about let's see nineteen thirty twenty I think I was eight years of age then . |
15 | I was at that time calling on and off at Faber 's , sometimes seeing Eliot and sometimes missing him . |
16 | I was at that party last night , the same as you . ’ |
17 | I was actually flashed at er in the library and what I thought of I would of done was completely different to what I actually did , erm , I thought I would of been quite calm about it , but in fact I ran out the library and I ran straight back to my flat erm , I was at that point I think about twenty one |
18 | I had never been so tempted to hit any man as I was at that moment . |
19 | I know how good you were because I was at that stage in maths where I felt rudderless and becalmed , drifting helplessly as it were , as my peer group — the rest of the fleet — sailed serenely on towards the horizon . |
20 | Before losing out to Northampton who were bullies , I was at that match at Buckingham Road and I thought they were bullies , especially Bobby Barnes , not the wrestler , used to play for West Ham , but he plays for Northampton now , he 's gone now , but they were , they , they were naughty . |
21 | I was at that game and the behaviour from some elements in the stands — on both sides — was disgraceful . |
22 | Now I have been in this business for a long time , and I was at that conference , and I have to say that I had forgotten the resolution until I was reading things again in preparing for this talk . |
23 | Er , you know , well of course they were young girls and er , you see and there 's , there was nothing we could do , you see , and , and er , anyway the doctor , as soon as the doctor did come , it was because th the young staff er they had to , they took her away to the mortuary , you see and erm then I , I had to carry on with her work and , and do the best I could and mine as well , you see , but of course er the Manager he appointed another Assistant Manager to go and collect the money which I used to do got it in because I took her times of duty as well and er , you see , and then after that er after several weeks I suppose it was , I do n't know how many because I forget how many , that they appointed me as Manageress and I was in that position for twelve years , you see and |
24 | I was in that scene with Morgan Fairchild when she … ’ ) , this summer will see him seizing co-starring laurels in a motion picture entitled Encino Man . |
25 | ‘ I was in that telephone kiosk within a minute of the shunt . ’ |
26 | Er yes because obviously I was in that type of field . |
27 | Once again , I 'm stuck , as trapped as I was in that tree — and I do n't think a well-timed lightning bolt from Lil will spring me this time . |
28 | and then the next day I was in that shop working away and on my life this was |
29 | Last week , when I was in that ceramics export place , I found some photographs under a file in my boss 's desk . |
30 | I actually feel , there was a time I used to think it would n't happen to me because if I was in that situation I would do this , I would do the next thing and when it did actually happen to me it took me ages to get over |