Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] i [was/were] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And suddenly I was swept out of myself — knowing , knowing , knowing . |
| 2 | Fergus said , ‘ And so I was sent away and Grainne was permitted to remain at Tara . ’ |
| 3 | And so I was carried upstairs , arms waving and legs kicking . |
| 4 | My shabby uniform soon became dirty and then dirtier , and once I was sent out of class to the matron by a teacher who complained of my general ‘ filthiness ’ . |
| 5 | She said it was br it was , I did n't think it was but it wa it was really good fun and also I was going out with Carl at the time and so , you know , in our big like little group big little group , our big group , that was a bit of a erm contradiction , erm in our big group and erm we knew masses of people and there were lots of there and there were lots of Felixstowe people there and it was just a really good laugh and erm Right Said Fred were there and some other sort of ravey group , ca n't remember what now and then , no some techno group , and then erm so we all thought oh let's go for this , let's go , la this time last year we thought oh well let's go over to this one for a joke , you know , for old time 's sake let's just go along and have a joke and we went and it was full of erm like they were all about fourteen , I suppose when we went we were all fourteen too but last year well most of my friends are sort of you know sixteen erm we went and it was n't , it was n't , it was n't full at all and the place is huge and it says , it says on the thing , you know , two thousand people go and there must have been about four hundred at the most and it was really , and I , also I ha I was ill that day and it was really shit so if they said it was brilliant last year it probably was n't the stockings because it was , nobody I met said it was , and also yeah the stockings and the feathers were put on the same day and there 's competition between the two companies does stocking and I 've forgotten what feathers is , there 's competition and so lots of people went to the feathers instead and the feathers had like too many people and the stockings had too lit too few . |
| 6 | And now I was running away too . |
| 7 | And then I were coming home and I were , I were really awful . |
| 8 | And then I was called in and nothing was ever said ‘ Well do this because ’ , but it felt that ‘ if you do n't do this … you know ? ’ |
| 9 | My posting came through and I was posted to Swordstone this side of Norwich , so I was still quids in , I could get home once a week , twenty four hour pass and then erm after a while erm , having served at Regiment , I was posted up to , as the Sergeant Artillery Clerk with the Brigade , an ack-ack brigade up at Coventry , just outside Coventry and then of course the A T S were coming in , were coming in in quite large numbers then and they were replacing male personnel and then I was posted abroad and I went to Egypt where I was there again , fortunate enough , I suppose , to go into the echelon , the second echelon which was the Records Office of all the forces or the armoured personnel in the Middle East and I worked there until I was actually demobbed from there but I was out in Egypt there for two , just over two years , came back to Northampton where I was finally demobbed and allowed to come home and as I said I came home one week and I was back at work the next . |
| 10 | And then the whitewater caught me so I proned out and hung on — I was eaten up then I was spat out and then I was eaten up again and spat out again and the beach was right there , so I threw the board away and just rolled and rolled and tumbled , and I ended up in the river on the far side of the berm . ’ |
| 11 | He got up out of bed and then I was thinking then he had a sneaky feeling that he tried to get out the door . |
| 12 | Well I fucking done th see last Thursday I done our front garden and our back garden , I do n't know what fucking else I did n't do , and then I was storming out and the fucking dishes Willy |
| 13 | Well I tried and then I was let down by the group . |
| 14 | I could n't say where , except it was like a pit , and sometimes I was floating above and it was nothing to do with me . |
| 15 | ‘ And there I was wondering why you were smelling like a — like a … ’ |
| 16 | How I did not develop pneumonia I shall never know , my sciatic nerve was outraged by this treatment , and fortunately I was taken back to Fulmer House . |
| 17 | Fey was something they would tell me I had just invented , but it is something that never left me during the entire period I was an Instructor and sadly I was to learn very shortly after he left Kinloss that he did not survive very long on the squadron that he joined . |
| 18 | ‘ Beware the falconer with the clean glove , ’ they say , and certainly I was looking forward to getting my glove dirty — at least metaphorically — with some practical experience when I booked myself on a falconry course on Bodmin Moor in the summer of 1988 . |
| 19 | She made the ascent of Nevis a pleasure , but now I was grown up and Wendyless . |
| 20 | let's go for it er but there I was going much slower and there was all this thoughts going on in my head and |
| 21 | I do feel I 've under-achieved on the ‘ A ’ tours , constantly getting good twenties and thirties and no further , but maybe I was trying too hard . |
| 22 | I du n no I I got the gist of what Lynne was saying and I was concentrating but maybe I was concentrating too hard because I was getting most of it right was n't I but it |
| 23 | But then I was reminded how I thought of a an accountant who was at work what figure was five and five and he said what figures did you have in mind . |
| 24 | NO SCUM MATCH ! ? ! ? ! ? ? ! ? ! ? ) … but afterwards I was pissed off . |