Example sentences of "[coord] i [was/were] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He and I were at a lobby at the House of Commons yesterday , in er , celebration of the mobility allowance , which campaigned very successfully , and we , in the Community Transport field , have very close working relationships and communication . |
| 2 | It needed no great powers of prophecy to realize that Nigel and I were on a collision course . |
| 3 | Suddenly I found that he and I were on a collision course , both in Atlas aircraft . |
| 4 | Robert , Ann and I were in a peculiar position in the elementary school for the Headmaster was our father . |
| 5 | But now Valeria and I were in a quandary . |
| 6 | My jacket was torn too , at the lapel and at the vent , and I was minus a shoe . |
| 7 | At one o'clock , without warning , the wind dropped , dust settled , and I was under a pleasant sky . |
| 8 | Er I was in the credit and I was with a large group of people there and they seemed very happy and I think we were fair , we 'd got good conditions . |
| 9 | When I saw the room , I immediately wanted to call the whole thing off , but the chap already had the cheque and I was on a hiding to nothing with my landlord so I would just have to put up with it . |
| 10 | All my dreams of playing for United to the end of my career — and I was on a seven- year contract — vanished when Ferguson called me into his office and offered me a cash pay-off to clear out and go and do something else with my life . |
| 11 | The morning was wasting away and I was on a promise to deliver women for Simon down in Southwark . |
| 12 | I 'm a member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers and er because I 'm by background an electronics engineer and I was at a meeting there where a chap was giving a talk on design express lifts you know at Northampton and the Chairman stood up and introduced doctor whoever he was sat down turned round to me in the second row and said could you give a vote of thanks at the end . |
| 13 | ‘ And I was like a weed . |
| 14 | Well I , I erm my first employment was in the , was in the building trade with er an old firm in Edinburgh called and believe me I was not a very fit person then after seven , five years and I was like a rake , I was like a skeleton . |
| 15 | And I was like a young by the time I got home . |
| 16 | ( John Banton confirmed at lunch that the system is only used once a day and I was in a room where he suspects that the volume control may have been defective , He made a note to look into it . ) |
| 17 | Well , that was it and I was in a daze . |
| 18 | ‘ I was in such shock that I wanted to phone round Julie 's friends but she had taken her contacts book with her and I was in a panic . |
| 19 | Faldo , who took five at the next short hole , added : ‘ I was only 10ft from the flag and I was in a hole . |
| 20 | And I was in a ca , er school over the summer holidays and er , we were looking at the design and technology and the point was that they got ta design and make some components , and realise I 'm talking about , you know , six , seven , eight year old , mixed girls and boys theirselves , and it was ra rather heart-warming to see where the way these youngsters react . |
| 21 | Five seconds later they opened again , and I was in a wide corridor which appeared to lead right to the rear of the building . |
| 22 | I did not know about any of this , because they had put a sleeping powder in my wine , and I was in a deep sleep . |
| 23 | There were several litters to do and I was in a hurry and failed to notice the Irish farm worker 's mounting apprehension . |
| 24 | I sat in an armchair with a copy of Punch and pretended to read it , but my eyes kept going back to those lips and that tiny corner of pink tongue and I was in a turmoil . |
| 25 | But I was in a hurry to get things done . |
| 26 | I was still a nothing , but I was in a good position to get at Charlie when the time was right . |
| 27 | Anyway , I was living in Boston at the time , but I was in a studio in Oslo and saw a Lexicon there , noticed that the company was in Boston and said , ‘ Can you put it on the guitar and see what it sounds like ? ’ |
| 28 | But I was in a hopeless situation , an anonymous , unknown Australian , a suspect in English eyes . |
| 29 | But I was in a foul temper , and Rebecca had n't made it any easier by going on about missing papers , and how urgent it was that we had them back . ’ |
| 30 | But I was in a bad mood with myself . |