Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] i [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were using me as a guinea-pig to investigate the hourly variation in mental efficiency of those with irregular sleeping patterns , such as airline pilots or globe-trotting diplomats . |
| 2 | ‘ So you were using me as a stud , min kaere . |
| 3 | IWAS looking at them uncomprehendingly ; they were eyeing me like a cat watches a captured mouse that might yet try to make a dash for freedom . |
| 4 | After confirming that I was n't taking any medication , she gave me two small white pills with a glass of water and sat me down , explaining that my Mother had been seriously burned and the pills were to help me with the shock when I saw her . |
| 5 | His claim that ‘ if they were to put me into a barrel , I would shout glory out through the bunghole ! ’ was not a facetious pose , but the normal expression of an irrepressibly good-humoured Christian . |
| 6 | ‘ I thought you were taking me to the police station . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ And you were fighting me from the moment we met again . ’ |
| 8 | I do n't think I would have made quite so much impact , however , if it had n't been for the fact that , while they were carrying me round the church yelling , ‘ Aliens ! ’ 'Jesus Christ ! ’ and ‘ The snake cometh ! ’ the roof fell in . |
| 9 | I had suffered from these cramps four years before and in Tokyo they were bothering me from the start . |
| 10 | Tell them what you were telling me on the phone yesterday … ’ |
| 11 | ‘ You were telling me about a party . ’ |
| 12 | And so you were telling me about the twenty six strike . |
| 13 | You were telling me about the common lodging houses . |
| 14 | He reported success with Yellow-root ( i.e. Hydrastis canadensis ) as it had ‘ flowered and ripened seeds in our garden , two years past , from some roots which were sent me from the inland parts of your country . |
| 15 | I asked the doctor who was seeing me in the hospital antenatal clinic whether or not I should stop taking the drug and he said it was OK and that I should just carry on . |
| 16 | I asked the doctor who was seeing me in the hospital antenatal clinic whether or not I should stop taking the drug and he said it was OK and that I should just carry on . |
| 17 | I had no idea she was using me for a purpose of her own : I was too naive to realise until it dawned on me what it was , a few weeks later . |
| 18 | But by far the best gift was given me by a little red-haired girl , Betty , who gave me ( a virgin boy ) her body . |
| 19 | She was helping me with the french . |
| 20 | I dimly understood that by holding out to me this realm of material essences , available by an act of will alone , The Fat Controller was condemning me to a cosmos of brand names , a metaphysic of motifs , a logic of logos , and an epistemology based on EPOS ( The Electronic Point of Sale method of inventory-keeping , which was just coming into use at this time among major retailers ) . |
| 21 | Gyggle was driving me along the coast road to Brighton as he spoke . |
| 22 | The day came suddenly and before I knew it my father was driving me into the town of Ipswich to drop me off near the studio . |
| 23 | I was in a shop once , buying scented candles , and on the radio came Steve Wright with a collage of Smiths ’ songs , and I got a distinct chill , almost as though the hand of death was tapping me on the shoulder , saying : ‘ put yer candles down , it 's time to go ! ’ ’ |
| 24 | One time I did and he was tapping me on the shoulder saying , ‘ I 've broken a string ’ . |
| 25 | He was in highly sociable mood and , bereft of any equals , was addressing me on the subject of the decline of western civilisation and the loss of old standards . |
| 26 | THOMAS PENNANT in his " Tour in Scotland " 1772 writes , " A present was made me of a clach clun ceilach , or cock-knee stone , believed to be obtained out of that part of the bird ; but I have unluckily forgotten its virtues . |
| 27 | THOMAS PENNANT in his " Tour in Scotland " 1772 writes , " A present was made me of a clach clun ceilach , or cock-knee stone , believed to be obtained out of that part of the bird ; but I have unluckily forgotten its virtues . |
| 28 | Nour had taken me by the shoulders and was pushing me towards the pool . |
| 29 | Another small farm was shown me as the place where the mother of a young baby had forgotten to place the poker over its cradle : as a consequence the child , unprotected by iron , had been stolen by the fairies and replaced by a ‘ changeling ’ . |
| 30 | The government 's obvious intention was to identify me as the main source of all the criticism and speculation running counter to the official line on Flight 103 and then to destroy me . |