Example sentences of "[adv] i was [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , I myself , for instance , after I 'd published my first book on psychoanalysis in nineteen eighty was summoned to the House of Commons by and given a dinner , in the House of Commons Restaurant , which is n't very good actually , least it was n't then , and effectively I was told by this great man was , noticed , had a very high opinion of his own ego , that erm , you know the left was in charge of psychoanalysis in this country , and had better conform or shut up . |
| 2 | Suddenly I was enveloped in one of those bitter North Sea murks and it was blowing quite strong from an easterly direction . |
| 3 | No that 's alright then and er I , I got into , I came , came back sort of when mother died , had to come back suddenly in the middle of the week and then erm I brought me family up as I say and , and my hubby he took , he took us Christmas shopping which is twenty one years ago this , this month the sixteenth my daughter-in-law and I and the little boy and that 's the little boy over there that 's now married , the one with the photograph , he took us shopping at Bishop 's Stortford cos we had n't any shops nothing here then , there was nothing when I first came here it was terrible and we went to Bishop 's Stortford and we came home in the , dinner time and I got erm , had our dinner and everything , had our meal , well we had soup and that was gon na cook at night , er you know , dinner at night so we had soup and that and erm he said I go down to the garage to put a tyre on my car , he came struggling back and within half an hour he was dead at fifty six years old that 's all he was , so I was left to bring up those that was n't married , I was left to bring up er the others you know , er I had the twins with me and Roy one of the boys and erm , er Brian the youngest one and I had to bring them up and I , after I , they , they all got married and I moved , before they got married I just got Brian with me the two twins got married , and I moved into my daughter-in-law 's house next door which was no two , seven , five the other side , I 'm sorry , two , seven , five and er I was in my house though three years that four bedroom and I could n't afford to keep you know big house like that going with just three , my , me and my son so we moved into her house and she had the end one which is still in now , we 'd done a swap and then cos er , er in the later years I was in there oh a long , long while and I loved it and I did n't wan na move but then I found , I was handicapped , I would n't get up the stairs to the toilet so I was moved into this bungalow you see and I had a friend living with me and he erm , he come here to live with me , came to lodge with me because he did n't want to go into Stevenage you see and er , after that erm , after that we , I had this bungalow and er I moved into this bungalow and er he moved in here with me and er everything happened when I got in this bungalow . |
| 4 | And so I was left to live alone with my aunt . |
| 5 | So I was caught with these milk tokens . |
| 6 | or so I was told in all seriousness |
| 7 | I hoped the dogs would be in the garden but the moment I stepped inside I was surrounded by five of the massive dogs . |
| 8 | The Signore was extrovert and jolly and his wife was a wonderful cook , and very soon I was considered as one of the family . |
| 9 | Gradually I was initiated into other roles . |
| 10 | ‘ The more I followed one character 's life , the more I was led into those of several other characters , ’ he says . |
| 11 | I knew nothing about Balder ; but instantly I was uplifted into huge regions of northern sky . |
| 12 | Now I was looking through some brochures about erm productions of Romeo and Juliet , I have n't found one yet that 's on before May . |
| 13 | But underneath I was battling like mad just to stay afloat . " |
| 14 | Well I was laying like this on top of my . |
| 15 | I feel like in Britain the kind of history that I came into as an eighteen year old was a women 's liberation movement whose context was anti-Vietnam , the counter culture , Vietnam solidarity , American radical feminism , irony of all ironies the Ford women 's strike , and here I was living with this Ford worker , domestic tyrant . |
| 16 | then I was looking at all the garden stuff , and and I thought well , start by the , and I thought I 'm doing a Joey ! |
| 17 | Then I was put on some sort of medication to help me calm down because I kept on getting knotted up , getting uptight . |
| 18 | Then I was promoted to assistant cashier at the Wandsworth branch where I had to deal with the toll accounts to go to head office as well as the share accounts and the dividends . |
| 19 | She told me to hang on a bit , and then I was talking to this David Kendrew bloke — the one on the programme — the one Mum 's always on about . |
| 20 | Then I was taken from that room |
| 21 | The first night there I was accosted by three men . |
| 22 | Also while there I was working from eight in the morning till seven at night . |
| 23 | I arrived expecting high rise hotels and crowded shores , instead I was treated to pretty villages built in honey coloured stone and fields of poppies . |
| 24 | In the next week or so until I met up with him again I was suffused with wild imaginings . |
| 25 | Actually I was thinking of some really good , funny things I could say earlier |
| 26 | Certainly I was asked about this er well before the er E I P er and we agreed that there w Well certainly I agreed that I could see nothing wrong with that since it is a cl closed research project , and nothing will be divulged at all er publicly . |
| 27 | Therefore I was bound by certain of its manners and rules . |