Example sentences of "i was [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 I was round at Mother 's that night . ’
3 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 .
4 I was over on the island .
5 One day , a year later , I was over on the west side of the island .
6 Oh , no , I was n't down by the river , I was over on the side next to the road .
7 So there 's a good year and a half at Southwell so I know the area , in fact I was over at Southwell when Simon was a police officer , covering the area .
8 Well , like I was saying I was over in Israel doing research on the migration of birds of prey .
9 I was over in Belfast and I came back and it were green .
10 I was over in Clapham .
11 I was over by the Orchard and then this .
12 ‘ They brought some other poor sod in , ’ he said , as if in answer to my question , ‘ but I was over behind the door and they did n't see me .
13 I was through with thinking about Ardakkeans .
14 Now I was up with the world 's elite sprinters , with Ben and Carl , Calvin and Dennis .
15 I thought that as I was up with him , I was up with the leaders .
16 I thought that as I was up with him , I was up with the leaders .
17 Well we nearly when I was up with the children at the to when I was
18 I was up with you lot then .
19 I was up on the box all the time ! ’
20 In fact , as I recall , I was up on the step-ladder dusting the portrait of Viscount Wetherby when my employer had entered carrying a few volumes which he presumably wished returned to the shelves .
21 Then the American announcer said , ‘ The bronze medal , Linford Christie , Great Britain , ’ and I was up on the plinth , the medal was around my neck and the Union Jacks were waving .
22 Its reflection on the water surface of the river at Abingdon advanced towards me , in this case not exactly to my feet because I was up on the bridge , but whatever else I managed to achieve in the picture I had to make this plane of the river advance .
23 However , so erm she asked me if I 'd go up and give her hand to sort things out , so I was up on the Friday morning and I said well you better phone the corporation and tell them that you 're moving out on Saturday morning .
24 Now a as I say , I was up on there on Friday and erm
25 I was up on the hill when the woman came .
26 At last I was up on a level with him .
27 ‘ Last Saturday night I was up on the stage being congratulated on winning the car .
28 While I was up at university , an awful lot of students from wealthy backgrounds were fiddling the dole somehow , and I reckon that the politicians and civil servants think that all they 're in fact doing is cutting their own children 's pocket money .
29 I had a duck-billed platypus when I was up at Trinity ,
30 The next morning unslept I was up at five but because of rain it was much later when we started the six kilometres ' trail to the larger lake on the reserve .
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