Example sentences of "[that] i was [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A little later , I stood nervously beside my bag , hoping that I was at the right bus stop for Sligo . |
| 2 | When I bought my first company and began to build up the business , I had to live in the city , so that I was at the centre of things . |
| 3 | I mean I 've just , but all the years that I was at the home every day I would say hello Flo , hello Elsie how are you ? |
| 4 | Paul was invited to give a series of public lectures at the school , and word got around that I was on the verge of retirement and Paul would be happy to take my place . |
| 5 | He was obviously satisfied that I was on the level and reserved two birds on the spot , £35 each . |
| 6 | The devil of it was the vehicle was a left-hand drive , so that I was on the side that would go over the edge first . |
| 7 | These were er built in between the th that long period that I was on the council . |
| 8 | Calling in at Lowestoft I found to my surprise that I was on the promotion list and viewed the prospect with mixed feelings as at the time this meant that I would no longer be eligible to crew on the cutters . |
| 9 | Here I need mention only that my work at the Staff College and the Royal Military College in Baghdad put me under suspicion of espionage , and that had the pro-Nazi rebellion of Raschid Ali of May 1941 ( during which I was given protection in the American Embassy ) been successful , I should have fared badly , as it was surmised much later that I was on the rebels ' hit list . |
| 10 | Not until I arrived on the 18th tee 1-down did it suddenly occur to me that I was on the point of losing . |
| 11 | When I just felt that I was on the absolute fringe of going berserk . |
| 12 | Ellen Orford in the poem is a middle-aged woman and it was fortuitous for me that I was about the right age — it 's not a part for a young soprano . |
| 13 | er if it 's people give you things like reference lists and reading lists , I mean sometimes that 's the most confusing thing to be given because you do n't know , I used to think you were supposed to read everything on them er and I actually tried doing that once or twice and I could n't find stuff in Aston library so I ran up the er town library and went to Birmingham University library and then I got back the next week and I realized that I was about the only person who 'd actually done that and other people had n't |
| 14 | He persuaded them that I was not employed by the Government , explaining that I was under the Emperor 5 personal protection , which accounted for my escort of soldiers . |
| 15 | I meant that I was under the impression the Spaniards had strong beliefs about virginal brides and the sanctity of marriage and children and a strong family unit . ’ |
| 16 | Apparently convinced that I was behind the ABC and NBC stories and the media follow-up around the world , they blew my cover in a television broadcast that also went out around the world . |
| 17 | The study of the Buddha made me feel that I was in the presence of a very great religious teacher , a man of great compassion , who diagnosed man 's original trouble as greed , desire , attachment , the escape from which was the treading of the Noble Eightfold Path . |
| 18 | I voiced my resentment openly , but my fatigue was confided only to my diary and to those of my friends who already knew that I was in the habit of getting up and wandering around at night . |
| 19 | ‘ I was not aware that I was in the hydrographic business , David . ’ |
| 20 | I knew I was going somewhere different , that I was in the wrong shell . ’ |
| 21 | I listened to others ' crises but did n't want to accept that I was in the middle of my own . |
| 22 | I blinked twice , not sure that I was in the right country . |
| 23 | One event which has lived in my memory , and which I would not have liked to repeat , was of cycling home one evening ( I lived near Altrincham ) — and I was in the middle of Barton Bridge when I heard a German bomber overhead — I have never pedalled so quickly since , realising that I was in the middle of a prime target . |
| 24 | From the time that my colleagues in the House of Commons did me the honour of electing me to be their leader I have felt that I was in the position of a trustee ; and even throughout the war the one thing that I have aimed at constantly has been to preserve . |
| 25 | ‘ I thought it over again and I have decided there must be an announcement , because it would indicate the merits of the matter and make it perfectly clear that I was in the right . ’ |
| 26 | Erm but the first year that I was in the |
| 27 | Once I waited so long and stayed so late that I gave myself away to Syl , who had called in the usual way at the front door , to be told by my mother that I was in the summer-house and he should go and bring me out and back to the drawing-room where , like normal people , we should converse . |
| 28 | There was movement below me and I remembered that I was in the upper berth of a two-tier bunk and Iain had one of those wristwatches with a built-in alarm . |
| 29 | Er then of course er petrol , before that I was in the , before I started the work we used to go out delivering petrol and petrol was all done in tins , two gallon tins . |
| 30 | Now they tell me , ’ he said flatly , ‘ that I was in the river , drowning , and Charlotte here pulled me out and brought me round . ’ |