Example sentences of "i [was/were] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Russell and I were in the road talking whilst he was fixing his car . |
| 2 | My mother and I were in the kitchen when I saw him and involuntarily said , ‘ My God , he looks as though he 's … ’ |
| 3 | On the way home , Frank was driving and Harry and I were in the back seat , and Harry put his arm round me . |
| 4 | I 'd sent Mum to the acupuncturist to try and give her some energy , and Jack and I were in the house when we heard a terrible thud . |
| 5 | ‘ It may seem so to you , but you can take my word for it , if I were in the business of prowling around car parks looking for innocent Bentleys to wreck , I most certainly would n't use my own car as a battering-ram . |
| 6 | God I were in the market and I thought I 'd better take a bit more wrapping paper and I and I had it I said that 's ten and of course I get on the and I did n't know |
| 7 | My mother and I were in the garden . |
| 8 | So I was in the port , running around trying to charge up a card from the outlets , and none of them were working I was putting in my ID , and the authority for the credit , and the screen would say |
| 9 | Before dawn , I was in the sleeping-bag , propping myself up on an elbow , Bible in one hand , torch in the other , flicking the beam periodically to the right of my legs , where the small aluminium pan and stove were struggling to boil water for tea . |
| 10 | Tony and I shared the navigation seat , and right now I was in the back , warm , comfortable and dozing gently . |
| 11 | The pilot sat in front so I was in the back on my own . |
| 12 | I was in the back without him knowing . |
| 13 | I do n't know ; they held me down and when I woke up I was in the back of a car on my way home . |
| 14 | Er they used to march us round the playground you see and er I was in the back row and of course the teacher was at the front more or less . |
| 15 | ‘ I was in the back of a truck , ’ she said , wonderingly . |
| 16 | I was in the land army . |
| 17 | I was in the Feathers the night Sandy MacAllister punched Laurence Uden on the nose for saying that Stanford Roberts had been drunk at poor old Sidney Cunningham 's funeral . ’ |
| 18 | Whilst I believed their feelings and actions were genuine , I was also aware that they were as steeped as I was in the romance of blindness : the helping hand , God 's purpose for us all . |
| 19 | I do n't believe the programme has taken off here as rapidly as it possibly could have had all the judges been as enthusiastic as I was in the beginning , but I would say 5 to 10 per cent of the sentenced people now are at least given that option . |
| 20 | ‘ If I was in the river , ’ he said reasonably , ‘ what am I doing here now ? ’ |
| 21 | Now they tell me , ’ he said flatly , ‘ that I was in the river , drowning , and Charlotte here pulled me out and brought me round . ’ |
| 22 | I know , when I was in the Sammy Jo were alright |
| 23 | One day I was in the wheelchair and people were talking to John and Jo but ignoring me . |
| 24 | " I learnt to live with other people when I was in the Services , but when you 've paid for your own room and it is n't your domain you feel insecure . |
| 25 | " I was in the newsagents " the other day — when you had that set-to with the girl . " |
| 26 | SINCE I was in the Palatinate , I spent the evening with C.V . |
| 27 | ‘ The referee could have given us two penalties in the first half but the one he did give did n't look much from where I was in the dug-out . |
| 28 | Looking through her work you ca n't help but be impressed by the quality and her attention to detail — and I did just wonder if I was in the presence of someone who is going to be hailed the greatest canine painter of her era . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | I was in the presence , Nicholson thought and was to repeat , of a most religious man . |