Example sentences of "i was [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was just about to say I expect you could really make a mess if you tried and then I realized I was covered in and I 'd better shut up . |
| 2 | She explained : ‘ I was called in at the last minute to help style a photographic session for Kylie about 18 months ago and it went from there . |
| 3 | As an example close to home , it would be a sanction much more powerful than an SEC if , as head of audit of my firm , I was called in to that panel to be told that if my firm wanted the institutional shareholders to vote their proxies in favour of our being reappointed auditors to this or that company , we would have to mend our ways in some respect . |
| 4 | I was called in and told the show was too expensive and was stretching facilities far too greatly for a children 's programme . ’ |
| 5 | And then I was called in and nothing was ever said ‘ Well do this because ’ , but it felt that ‘ if you do n't do this … you know ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ When the company reached the point where it could n't meet its liabilities I was called in to wind the business up . ’ |
| 7 | They were arguing about who had the softest fabric and I was called in as arbitrator . |
| 8 | As I was looking in , I could see the Queen , surrounded by her lords and ladies . |
| 9 | " I 'm afraid of what she 'll do , " the man says when I was looking in through the window , and then the other woman goes up to him and starts loving him . |
| 10 | Hello there , erm I was calling in to sort of object to the erm whole presentation of recent events in the , in the Soviet Union . |
| 11 | I desperately tried to paddle away but the canoe move and I was wedged in . |
| 12 | ‘ We left Reyjavik on Good Friday and on the Sunday morning I was turned in , having come off watch at 0400 hours . |
| 13 | I only explained I was listening in at the time . |
| 14 | Rain pours down the window panes of my London flat and I am reading the letters of black political prisoners in the country I was born in . |
| 15 | The Hovis ad really is exactly the kind of place that I was born in . |
| 16 | But in fact I was born in , Northamptonshire . |
| 17 | Anyway he went about in railway jobs as the years went by and I was born in , taken with the rest to Leicester , City of Leicester , but my early memories was in Nottingham . |
| 18 | I was born in , er right in the centre , Street . |
| 19 | Just as a kid he would lift me up on the m up on the er counter , you know and me I was born in and then we shifted to the bottom , you know that white house , I think it 's all offices now , in the the erm big gates of the cathedral . |
| 20 | I was born in in er , Stockford , Brixton . |
| 21 | Well I said , I was born in and I was also born in Terrace . |
| 22 | It 's just that there are some things the mind-set is not adjusted to and I was tuned in for bracing winds , long place names and snatches of Tom Jones . |
| 23 | Bedfield was the village I was living in at the time . |
| 24 | The Marine position was very similar to where I was dug in . |
| 25 | ‘ I was kept in by force . |
| 26 | Perhaps I was luxuriating in |
| 27 | I was bringing in a patron a day . ’ |
| 28 | One evening I was bringing in a basket of apples from the garden , when a voice behind me said , ‘ Ellen , is that you ? ’ |
| 29 | They invited me to take part in the next one and I went along with them , having no idea what I was getting in to . |
| 30 | The man came back to the telephone and said that if I was Linford Christie I was to go in and see them . |