Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [adv] [adj] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Mr Mentiply and I were terribly shocked to hear about your brother , my dear . |
| 2 | My husband and I were very angry to receive from M.S.W. to contribute to Africa and Asia to assist their water flow , when just down the road from our house the same company had caused the flood meadows to dry up . |
| 3 | I was most distressed to hear of your fall . |
| 4 | I was desperately sorry to hear about it . ’ |
| 5 | As I remember , I was even readier to advance in class the theories of , for instance , F. L. Lucas on the decline of the Romantic ideal , or E.M.Y. Tillyard on poetry direct and oblique , while suspecting that none of the other girls ( or perhaps even the teachers ) had read the books in question . |
| 6 | I was even happier to discover from John McCready 's article on The Farm that it was called ‘ Natural Thing ’ by Innocence . |
| 7 | So I was particularly pleased to find at one point , when I 'd indulged in a lengthy photo session , that the rest of the party had gone over the brow and out of sight and I was left for a while with the world to myself . |
| 8 | I was therefore delighted to read in chapter three that the author , talking about oversimplified reasoning in music says , ‘ … . it does not explain why I respond with goose-pimples to Bach 's Kyrie every time I listen to it . ’ |
| 9 | As far as I am aware , there was good feeling between the candidates during the election , and I was somewhat surprised to read in Susan Crosland 's splendid biography of her husband that Roy Hattersley had told him I was angry that he was standing , and that he must give me his support before the first ballot or I would have no interest in him . |
| 10 | I was quite prepared to go to court . |
| 11 | I was quite prepared to die without giving it too much thought , you understand — and suddenly I find I 've got up steam and I 've puff-puffed past the station labelled ‘ Death ’ and the track lies all before me , unsignposted . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I was quite prepared to play in the reserves , and wait patiently for an opportunity . |
| 13 | The fish fought as hard as a 10lb summer pike and I was quite staggered to lift aboard a barracuda of about 2lb . |
| 14 | Yes , but I was quite happy to feel like that , precisely because I was afraid of being influenced by my roots . |
| 15 | But above all , I needed something that at that time I was quite unable to put into words . |
| 16 | I was often unable to think of external things as having external existence , and I communed with all that I saw as something not apart from , but inherent in , my own immaterial nature . |
| 17 | Today , I was virtually sore laughing at his description of the immortal ‘ filling of the bath ’ problem . |
| 18 | Earlier in my visit I had spotted some castings on his scrap heap which I was fairly sure belonged to a turbine . |
| 19 | As a keen watersports enthusiast I was greatly alarmed to read in your news pages about the high quantities of toxic algae currently present in many of our inland waterways . |
| 20 | ‘ I was always proud to play for my country and I 'm baffled why I should have been omitted in the first place , for the linesman incident was trivial . |
| 21 | I was so pleased to hear from you . |
| 22 | ‘ I was so keen to work for the Labour Party , ’ he says . |
| 23 | I was so busy looking at the coach . |
| 24 | Last year this was arranged as usual but I was so busy looking after my guests during the day that I had to rush getting ready for the evening out . |
| 25 | I was sufficiently idiotic to love with a longing that weakened me as though I was bleeding . |
| 26 | I was too upset to go to school . |
| 27 | and I could n't even blot him out cos I was too nosey to listen to what he was talking about . |
| 28 | I think I was too young to worry about being emasculated . |
| 29 | Pointer needed no further encouragement and I was too intrigued to object to floundering through the frozen bracken . |
| 30 | He admitted : ‘ What I 've learned is that I was too complacent going into this competition . |