Example sentences of "was [adv] i [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As soon as school was over I took the train from Hammersmith to Whitechapel , then continued the rest of the journey on foot to Charlie 's home . |
| 2 | Chapter 3 provides information on a variety of religious faiths , and it was here I found the text least satisfactory . |
| 3 | ‘ It was n't me put the charge on the boat ! ’ the nervous man cried out . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , it was then I noticed the sound . |
| 5 | It was then I remembered the oil pastels . |
| 6 | It was there I suffered the nervous breakdown . |
| 7 | And that was where I got the knowledge about the extra money , and that is the only thing that I remember about from him . |
| 8 | ‘ Do you think that was where I saw the body ? |
| 9 | The only moment when he seemed ill at ease was when I raised the question of the forced repatriation to Russia at the end of the war of thousands of White Russian and Cossack soldiers from camps in northern Italy and Yugoslavia . |
| 10 | That was when I got the gun out . |
| 11 | We talked about that for a while and that was when I got the idea of using the mud wagon-not just for him but for the McLaren girl too , and just like before I could see myself sitting in it with her . |
| 12 | ‘ The first time I came out of my shell was when I saw The Who at the Marquee . |
| 13 | I think it was when I saw the London policeman wagging a finger at a scowling urchin that I thought of Wesley Binks and the time he put the firework through the surgery letter box . |
| 14 | And I wa commented on it to you , it was when I borrowed the maternity robe from Penny and she |
| 15 | ‘ As soon as he 'd gone that was when I called the police . |
| 16 | That was when I scraped the fender on a protruding lump of rock . |
| 17 | I FELT I had to write and say how moved I was when I visited the exhibition of wood-cuts by Hong Song-Dam . |
| 18 | That was when I visited the Soviet Union in 1984 . |
| 19 | The final straw was when I bought the buttons , and on sewing them on , found the shop had supplied one odd one . |
| 20 | One high point was when I telephoned the historian , Roy Medvedev , to record on tape his message of support for the second European Nuclear Disarmament Convention , held in Berlin in 1983 . |
| 21 | For me however , the biggest eye opener was when I joined the fundholder group in Grampian and their meetings with the provider units . |
| 22 | But that was why as I understood it , that was why I wanted the sealer . |