Example sentences of "i was [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was of no fixed abode , but I 'd finished my time so they still let me go . |
| 2 | I did so , and seeing I was of no more use , I rushed inside to awaken my older brother and sister to show them what had happened . |
| 3 | If I was of a probing nature I would say there 's something worrying you . |
| 4 | ‘ That is fortunate , ’ said the emir , ‘ for I was of a mind to present you with none . |
| 5 | It was not Billingsley 's physical size that provoked that fear , for I was of a size with him , nor was it his profession that gave me pause , but rather the aura of incipient violence that he radiated like a blast furnace . |
| 6 | If I was of a mind to stop washing and shaving and go live in a bus and drive around the country shitting in farmers ' fields and killing their sheep and being hassled by the pigs and pilloried by the Daily Star and generally being ‘ free ’ , this is the record I would choose to do it to . |
| 7 | At the time I was of the same colouring ( there 's a portrait of me hanging at Burpham ) . |
| 8 | ‘ Ken , of course , was fairly right-wing and I was of the opposite persuasion . ’ |
| 9 | I was of the opinion that when the plans for the new St Augustine 's School were under discussion that the number of proposed school places was too low . |
| 10 | Ahmed liked to be laughed at , but he was a peasant and Nour was , in his own estimation , a prince and I was of an English generation which would have felt free to laugh at the Grand Turk if it had been so inclined . |
| 11 | However , there was an entrance fee and I was beyond the stage of paying those so I decided to try and shelter somewhere else . |
| 12 | I was worth a try , Josie thought sadly . |
| 13 | Well do you know , when I met , I , I 'm meeting old chaps through this very excellent marriage agency , I 've never expected any thing like it , they are marvellous , and the sent me a nice old lad , but I knew I was onto a looser when he said , of course I go to my daughter-in-law every Saturday for lunch , she absolutely insists because she says , she wants to make sure that I 'm eating properly , now this is a very healthy old man with a very good income who could afford to buy any food he wants and the fact of the matter is his that he 's son is probably not , he does n't want to upset his old dad , and it 's handy to have him to come on Saturday for lunch and be done with it as it were , but I thought surely Bernard your own sense would tell you that nobody want 's their old father and father-in-law every Saturday of their life , for lunch oh . |
| 14 | I could n't convince them at the other end that I needed an ambulance because I was outside the hospital . |
| 15 | I found I was outside the tent , standing up with my jacket clutched to me , the better to see them . |
| 16 | I was outside the chapel when I heard them … the Empress and my lord Sheriff … |
| 17 | ‘ I was outside the hall leafleting when the debate was called . |
| 18 | I was outside the door , listening . |
| 19 | and I was outside the door . |
| 20 | I was over the moon for Tom , but I was also cold , wet , and in agony with my legs . |
| 21 | I was over the moon . |
| 22 | I was over the moon at the thought of showing my pals and class-mates a real American dollar . |
| 23 | I was over the moon . |
| 24 | That was hard work all the time , my hands my hands used to chap on the backs , used to chap hands and that was only , I was over the wind , I wind and , and er when I used to scrub the cabin out which was with washing soda and soft soap and when you went along cos that was you get , you get erm , ordinary washing soda on the back of your hands and they did n't supply anything then . |
| 25 | I was over the moon — although this only lasted for about a year as I paid a visit with some friends to see the 1991 ‘ Sound Off Championships ’ at Wembley . |
| 26 | But I then put the Whitley into the most desperate dive , everything in the cabin was floating , and before the Foxes could turn round and do anything about , it I was over the Channel , I landed at Manston where I was put under arrest immediately . |
| 27 | I was over the moon . |
| 28 | ‘ When I found out they were still alive I was over the moon . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I was over the moon , ’ she said . |
| 30 | When I took over at the Department of Health and Social Security , I was under no illusion about the difficulty of my job . |