Example sentences of "[subord] i [vb past] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the race had been over 62 metres then I felt I would have won , but there are no championships at this distance so I had to be content with second place . |
| 2 | " So I pretended to be ill and went to bed . |
| 3 | Something which , if I lived to be two hundred years old then went and announced it at St Paul 's Cross , would rock the very throne of England and scandalise the courts of Europe ! |
| 4 | If I wished to be cruel about the discussion this far , I would suggest that it has the evasive character of much comparative writing . |
| 5 | I 'd go mad if I had to be tidy as well as everything else . |
| 6 | If I wanted to be pretentious , I might call this paper an investigation of the sociology of literature . |
| 7 | If I wanted to be happy I should have avoided the pub altogether , or at least had nothing stronger than mineral water . |
| 8 | Before I could say , ‘ You bastards ’ , they were specks in the mist as I huddled from the blizzard behind a boulder wondering if I wanted to be sick yet . |
| 9 | Well it was a town then but since then it 's been made a city , you see , and I got to know all kinds of people and one gentleman came in there , used to come every evening and write a book and er , I used to look after him if I happened to be that end and er , you see , and then he 'd say , oh just an exchange you know about the weather and just in general thing and then I 'd leave him and he 'd get on with his writing and one day he said to me . |
| 10 | ‘ The best of it was that the farmer — Mr Harris — said that if I proved to be right , he 'd call me in again , especially as Mr Jarvis had said that my fees were moderate . |
| 11 | Because I happened to be fluent in French , I was promoted 11 months later to loan officer and assigned to the French-speaking Arab countries of North Africa , where I made my first international calls . |
| 12 | ‘ The album is just like one leaf on the tree , and that 's why I waited two years to do the next one , because I wanted to be sure that my playing had something new to offer . |
| 13 | I did n't go because I wanted to be rich . |
| 14 | ‘ I did n't want something too fussy , ’ said Fiona , ‘ both because it 's my second time around and because I wanted to be able to wear the dress again ! ’ |
| 15 | We had been at the wedding a full hour before I began to be curious about the whereabouts of the bride and groom . |
| 16 | But when I got to be twenty-one , I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years . |
| 17 | I had sought to interest some of the more enterprising newspapers , especially as I hoped to be able , if possible , to push on to Abyssinia ; but , in the end , I went in independence , as I have undertaken most excursions , both terrestrial and mental . |
| 18 | Gradually the time was increased , though I had to be careful not to ask for too much . |