Example sentences of "[vb past] i [was/were] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I THOUGHT I was still standing and then I realised I was on the floor . ’ |
2 | She just had to turn out , and there was nothing coming down , foot down , opened up , got I was at the top of the hill and she was nowhere in sight . |
3 | I found I was outside the tent , standing up with my jacket clutched to me , the better to see them . |
4 | She said , no you write and he 'll , she 'll write back , you see but , and he went out to France and he was killed in three months and and his name , so they told me was on the er , on the board at er . |
5 | From the deadness of sound , I judged I was in the main roof-space . |
6 | We started accumulating works of art and people just assumed I was in the business . |
7 | Nobody even noticed I was in the room ! |
8 | When Adrian writes ‘ Nobody even noticed I was in the room ! ’ with its exclamation mark of outrage at the end , part of us says ‘ Of course they did n't notice . |
9 | You may not believe this , but though Richard and I have now known each other for eighteen years on and off , the first time he kissed me was in the car-park last Thursday . ’ |
10 | I had n't seen her since you went to America , and then about six months ago I was staying the week-end with the Coleworthys and I thought I had better drop in to see the old girl in case she heard I was in the neighbourhood and took offence " |
11 | ‘ I did n't win anything when I entered last year , so I adapted the recipe then heard I was in the North of England finals . |
12 | When he came in he saw I was on the verge of tears and said , " What 's wrong ? " |
13 | I burst on to the pass from Jack Clarke , had a wee look and saw I was in the clear . |
14 | On the street again , suddenly I felt I was in the middle of a farce — ‘ POLICE SEARCH FOR THE BIG BANANA IS ON — and the discovery that actually I did have my cheque numbers in my moneybelt and that it was the photocopies that had been stolen made me almost light-headed . |
15 | I knew I was on the right track when I felt that thrill of pleasure at placing object , not painting it . |
16 | I knew I was on the wrong track when the tall reeds broke to reveal the brown-bellied river . |
17 | I knew he had been a colleague of my father ; I wondered how he knew I was on the Sort-to . |
18 | The next thing I knew I was on the floor . ’ |
19 | The paramedics turned up within ten minutes and as they turned up I passed out , so they applied the defibrillator to my chest and the next thing I knew from one minute to sitting talking to them I knew I was on the ground and they 'd brought me round . |
20 | ‘ There was a lot of pressure to make that birdie as I knew I was near the cut , ’ said Ballesteros , who is battling to emerge from a spell of wretched form . |
21 | ‘ You thought I was on the pill , of course , that 's why you never used a sheath or anything . |
22 | I thought you thought I was on the wagon or something . |
23 | I thought I was at the office . ’ |
24 | We went into my room at last , with our arms round each other , and in the doorway I stopped dead because I 'd forgotten what Toby had said about John and for a second I thought I was in the wrong room . |
25 | May I take this opportunity to say how sickened I was by the small group of supporters hounding the ticket kiosk for their money back , after Monday night 's County Shield match against Whaddon YMCA . |
26 | In interviews though , I said I was on the dole because it was very trendy at the time to be on the dole as far as the music press was concerned . |
27 | I swept I was in the butchers you see the fl how wet the floor was |