Example sentences of "i was [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It attracted me like a magnet when I was a youth , and soon as I could leave school I was up at the course for a caddying job . |
| 32 | ‘ I was up at the Grange last night treating ingrowing toenails . |
| 33 | I was up at Lancaster when Liverpool got it . |
| 34 | On Sunday I was up at 6am . |
| 35 | for October , I think , when I was up at the hospital and it was down not I was below . |
| 36 | I was up at Sea House one night , looking in through the window — " |
| 37 | But true to his plan not to do anything to interrupt , or to deflect me from , my studies , while I was up at Oxford , he took the first opportunity , now that I had gone down , to enlist my services with The Criterion . |
| 38 | but you see er , yes that 's right and then of course I 'm , since then I was up at Cambridge and that was during the second year |
| 39 | Well the next morning I was up at the top gate on picket and erm came with his van and he he spelted up through and the lads jumped one side well , I 'm nearly sixty five I did n't jump so quickly . |
| 40 | the structured thought patterns I found that the most important because when I was up at the table on the second presentation I was able to have my thoughts relating to the layout already and with in fact just the single element of the subject shown on my paper I could immediately focus on that and in fact give the details of that right the way through . |
| 41 | ‘ Because there were telephone calls to make and various matters which needed my attention , I was up at dawn this morning , ’ Vitor told her . |
| 42 | I was up at about ten I suppose . |
| 43 | Ask me the time I was up at ? |
| 44 | No no , no no no no no , ask me what time I was up at ? |
| 45 | here well I did tonight like cos I was up at half five |
| 46 | Bloody morning I was up at quarter to nine ! |
| 47 | ‘ AH , DOING an E H Carr , eh ? ’ , was the invariable response when , at the end of the 1960s , I told people what I was up to . |
| 48 | I kept away from him so the rest of the family would n't find out what I was up to . |
| 49 | I regularly asked Erica Brausen , the Hanover 's director , if she would visit my studio to see what I was up to but she never had time to take a taxi from Hanover Street to Highgate . |
| 50 | Carrying on and saying I was up to no good , out till that time . |
| 51 | By my second meeting , I was up to 20 words . |
| 52 | You might just remind your team that I would n't be working with IMP if they did n't think I was up to the job . |
| 53 | ‘ Listen , I was up to here with him ! ’ he said , vehemently . |
| 54 | She knew me well enough not to ask what I was up to in front of a policeman . |
| 55 | At that stage I was up to my sticky-out ears in Shetland 's music scene , and still harbouring a yearning to make a living from being a boring-but-sometimes-funny singer-songwriter . |
| 56 | ‘ Only officers need more than ten minutes for what I was up to . ’ |
| 57 | Although she never showed any interest in what I was up to at university , she often asked questions about the East End and seemed fascinated by my stories of Charlie Trumper and his barrow . |
| 58 | Then I was up for a second — and the next wave hit me . ’ |
| 59 | ANNETTE BENING : ‘ I was up for the part of a prostitute in Dangerous Liaisons , the one whose backside John Malkovich uses to write a letter . |
| 60 | My joy of getting into Halton was short-lived , In the first term I was up before the Head , a delightful fellow called B , A , Smith who kindly explained in a most embarrassed way that in spite of appearing to have satisfactory results in other departments , my school results were as poor as he could recall in all his experience . |