Example sentences of "i was [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I , I , I mean I do n't know , I was n't there for half the things she was talking about last night , I mean I was upstairs for three quarters of an hour trying to go to sleep |
| 2 | I was upstairs with the other two , she could have just taken the other one |
| 3 | I was near at the time , with Tiffany , in Mansfield . |
| 4 | On one occasion I was round at a neighbour 's house and despite my warnings that it could get rather messy , they insisted that I show them how Dawn fed . |
| 5 | ‘ I was round at Mother 's that night . ’ |
| 6 | Yeah Lis Lisa came in yesterday when I was round at Zed 's and she was complaining about how her keep fit class they bloody put on rave music . |
| 7 | I think I was somehow with them once . |
| 8 | The second , far more important lesson , I did n't learn until I was downstairs at the desk paying the actual bill : if you can get away with 50 quid for a bottle of anything in Sweden , take it . |
| 9 | And I was downstairs with Lottie ; and we were taking coats , do you see ; people were coming in to lunch or dinner — I forget — we were taking the coats , and a man went upstairs — I do n't know who he was — and he had a big head , and it was completely bald ! |
| 10 | ‘ Screaming ’ ‘ I was downstairs in the living-room and when I came out I found the whole stairway on fire , ’ she said . |
| 11 | I was madly in love once , darling . |
| 12 | When I was twenty I married a man I was madly in love with . |
| 13 | I married Danny because I was madly in love and wanted to share my life with him . |
| 14 | ‘ I was madly in love with a guy in med school . |
| 15 | And she said cos she said you know she she said I was madly in love with him . |
| 16 | I was nearly at the top of the post part when I saw Julie getting out of a car . |
| 17 | Black knight , black knight I was nearly at |
| 18 | ‘ My face was so painful I was nearly in tears |
| 19 | I was nearly in tears and did n't know what to do with it . |
| 20 | I was nearly in love , I was proposed to a couple of times ; on the other hand , I once went for a year without men , without sex — both seemed too much trouble . |
| 21 | God , I was nearly in an accident last night , that reminds me , coming , I 'd just turned off the Wrexham road , er going along the Paisword one |
| 22 | At that time I was strongly in favour of sanctions , and I supported the dispatch of American troops to Saudi Arabia , according to Bush , to deter an attack on that country ; though I would not myself have acceded to an American request to put British ground troops there , and I think many people in the Ministry of Defence argued strongly against that . |
| 23 | Well not so much cheaper cos I was most of the time I was doing it for nothing anyway . |
| 24 | I was again on the west side of the island and was walking along the shore . |
| 25 | After two days at home with my parents , I was again at the railway station , this time catching the early evening train to Fort William . |
| 26 | During the Reagan presidency , the Guardian kept blaming his errors on age , and perforce , there I was again with another angry letter — ‘ Son of Disgusted , Centre for Policy on Ageing ’ — pointing out that , like it or not , Ronald Reagan had always been like that , making the same kind of statement and endorsing the same brand of policies . |
| 27 | At the end of 1987 I was again in hospital and was then top priority , according to Magdi Yacoub , or MY , or the Prof , depending on whom you talked to . |
| 28 | I was again in a basic canary yellow , with cerise piping and strips of varying shades of purple on the trim at belt , wrists and headband . |
| 29 | while I was away at Art School . |
| 30 | He died of distemper while I was away at St Aubyn 's ; the news overwhelmed me with a child 's grief . |