Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.

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1 I did so , and seeing I was of no more use , I rushed inside to awaken my older brother and sister to show them what had happened .
2 At the time I was of the same colouring ( there 's a portrait of me hanging at Burpham ) .
3 I shouted thanks and crossed over , though I was on the same side as every local runner .
4 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 .
5 ‘ Of course I was on the same squadron as him for a time . ’
6 I was on the same delegation to Russia and the Ukraine .
7 Yeah but I was , I was on the same place as I was one behind him !
8 They put a lot of effort into it , but I tell you what , if I read Access , I would never have believed I was at the same conference .
9 Thank you Chair , as the chair of that meeting yesterday , I was wondering if I was at the same committee as this m these minutes came from , because when I read the minutes two and three , I certainly did n't remember us passing those .
10 To put it at its highest , I was in no more than so-so shape by the time I reached Caduta 's .
11 But I was in the most of the islands you know .
12 I was in the same Mental and Moral Science class as him and I ca n't say I noticed .
13 When I was in the same area again last week ( w/c July 5 '91 ) I went up to the shelters one evening and cleaned out all the rubbish prior to spending the night there .
14 I felt them , if I was in the same position , I would probably drink heavily as well .
15 And when I came round I was in the same place .
16 ‘ If I was in the same situation again 100 times I would come for the same punch and back myself to clear the ball every time ’
17 He was so thick that I was in the same form as Dan .
18 Thrilled to the core by his admission that she disturbed and aroused him , she was at the same time terrified .
19 She might as well try Veronica 's house again , although she was disturbed to find that she was on the same track as hordes of newspaper reporters .
20 ‘ I felt I could do that with you , but it was more difficult with her — partly because she was about the same age as me probably . ’
21 She was about the same age as his own daughter but she looked as if she had the troubles of the world on her .
22 Looking at his froggy face , half-submerged in the murky water , it was hard to believe that he really was anything more than an ordinary frog , and Mildred could see why no one had recognized her when she was in the same plight .
23 Her name was Nellie and she was in the same class as me at school and her family had not long moved into the neighbourhood .
24 She was in the same year as Humber , and had the same brisk efficiency , but was much more friendly .
25 She said she was in the same boat as himself and kept her fist closed tight in the pocket of her overall on the one and ninepence Uncle Vernon had given her earlier .
26 When she was within a few feet of the ground , the cat leapt from her and rubbed itself against its mistress 's legs .
27 Now the editors have picked out some plums to make up a poets ' special - from Eliot and Auden , through Allen Ginsberg ( 'I think it was about the same time that I was having these Blake visions ' ) to John Ashbery and the delightful Elizabeth Bishop .
28 The shuttle was n't much like a London bus in shape , but it was about the same size .
29 But the way he did it was with the same connections he defied , and to get into serious racing in his early days , he got a bank to give him credit and a sponsor to give him some backing : though he had n't , of his own , a sou in the world .
30 It was at the latter that Fleischmann worked , initially as a fellow sponsored by Ia , the major chemical company , and then as a lecturer .
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