Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [adj] [conj] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lili and I were silent and I wondered for a moment how I would be feeling if I was going to marry the man I loved — had loved , I amended in my mind , for surely even I could n't be so idiotic as to love still where I had met with such treachery . |
| 2 | I were alright till I had me tea |
| 3 | As I looked I was sure that I saw Boris , my bear , wink at me . |
| 4 | Nothing moved inside except out of the corner of my eye I was sure that I saw Boris winking . |
| 5 | In fact I was sure that I knew who it was , and I thought Mala must be too . |
| 6 | Suddenly I was sure that I knew the secret of life . |
| 7 | I assured her that I would definitely not change my mind and that I was sure that I wanted to do it . |
| 8 | ‘ I was sure that I did not have a place in either male or female worlds , ’ she told me . |
| 9 | I was sure when I started my research that I would be able to say that governments were greedy and liked to sell lots of arms to countries who were very poor and who only needed basic things like food and shelter . |
| 10 | I was skinny but I 'd never been so healthy in my life . |
| 11 | I was nervous before I went on . |
| 12 | I was nervous because I did not have any friends and I was worried that I would be on my own . |
| 13 | I was right when I said having you here would do more for me than all the medicines in the world . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Sounds as though I was right when I decided to poke into the activities of INCUBUS — and Hauser … ’ |
| 15 | Schwantz said : ‘ I was upset when I saw Rainey come off . |
| 16 | and I was upset and I thought it was just that but no , it was about two weeks before that I went down with it . |
| 17 | I was happy because I was now ‘ on the inside ’ , doing war-work and feeling , for the first time , that we were really a partnership ; and I was proud that I had grown more confident , and mature enough to take Leslie as he was , and no longer demanded — as he had once said that I did — that he be the White Knight . |
| 18 | ‘ I was speechless when I heard that I had won , ’ he said . |
| 19 | In spite of the rain 's best efforts , I was pleased that I had been able to observe and film interesting mink behaviour . |
| 20 | ‘ But I was pleased that I showed some fighting spirit . ’ |
| 21 | I joined the Air Cadets when I was young but I got more interested in chasing girls . |
| 22 | He had asked me for a photograph of myself when I was young and I had told him to go around and get it from Mandy . |
| 23 | ‘ I went to Paris and I saw with my own eyes — either that or I was young and I dreamt it all — workers and students and young people together , fighting , helping each other-socialism was on the streets . ’ |
| 24 | When the studios were built , I wanted to record some of the songs I knew when I was young and I wanted to record them the way I wanted to hear them . |
| 25 | I took everything I could get when I was young and I do n't regret it . |
| 26 | It was a great shot , funnily enough , but I was disappointed because I failed in my attempt to create history in my last match at Lord 's ! ’ |
| 27 | I thought London was a wonderful place but I was disappointed when I saw what a small , tumbledown house my brother and his wife lived in . |
| 28 | ‘ I was disappointed when I found you did n't either . |
| 29 | ‘ You 're cross because I was honest when I spoke to you that night . |
| 30 | I was impressed when I discovered that as well as the usual homoeopathic remedies , psionic practitioners used potencies of DNA ( deoxyribonucleic acid ) and RNA ( ribonucleic acid ) . |