Example sentences of "i was [adv] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was not Boat Race standard , but I got by at the level of intercollege competition . |
| 2 | I struggled up to show I was n't wolf meat . |
| 3 | I was n't chewing gum though , I was eating sweets |
| 4 | I was subsequently Chief Constable of the combined Sheffield and Rotherham Police Force which whilst a joint committee , still regarded so very much as serving the two separate authorities and finally I was Chief in a Metropolitan country , with a county council and a police committee and I 'm quite sure that the police were much more sensitive to the needs and the wishes of their local communities when you were sitting at one of those , not necessarily police committee meetings , but the county council meetings , when they discussed the minutes of the police authority . |
| 5 | She go we were all talking about , you know , Christmas shop shopping , and L B comes in and goes yeah well when I was out Christmas shoplifting |
| 6 | She came across for the first time today , I was out egg yard getting some eggs |
| 7 | I was there Saturday night er , and Saturday evening and erm what 's her name ? |
| 8 | . However , after about eighteen month at , as a yard foreman , as I say I was still branch secretary of Portobello branch , and carrying on as usual , er I put in for There were this yard inspectors job wanted at Street Station . |
| 9 | No I was only garrison artillery on guns . |
| 10 | I was er Chairman of Public Health and various chim , I was Chairman of the Road Safety , which I was very interested in I was very road safety conscious and we each were given a job which we tried to do the best we could with and then we well , whatever we were asked to do we began to make a good town , you know ? |