Example sentences of "i [vb past] [prep] [be] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got to be careful at the doorways , cos there 's people coming in and out and a couple of times I nearly get knocked over by people bumping into me . |
| 2 | I got to be careful of the traffic , cos a car nearly hit me . |
| 3 | I got to be careful about remembering to switch it off . |
| 4 | I expected to be terrified of the pain and I was worried that if anything went wrong I would n't be able to cope . |
| 5 | I tried to be sick in the toilet , but even that I failed to do . |
| 6 | As I left the room I seemed to be in a school and I saw many children in the hall and I seemed to be late for a class . |
| 7 | I learnt to be self-sufficient in the army during the Second World War . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | We had been at the wedding a full hour before I began to be curious about the whereabouts of the bride and groom . |
| 10 | And I began to be conscious of my unnatural state , and cry in the night sometimes for no real reason except that I wanted a man beside me — any man at all , I sometimes thought , and the little voice which had been so snooty before , now held its peace on the subject . |
| 11 | In the first half , I began to be ashamed for ballet . |
| 12 | ‘ The decision to do so was one of the hardest I have ever made : but now that I am committed ( by dint of posting the letter before I had time to change my mind ) I began to be afraid of opposite extremes — afraid that I am merely indulging in an orgy of egoism . ’ |
| 13 | Whatever it was , I began to be aware of all the doubts , of all the rational thoughts that I had put away in my pursuit of ‘ complementary ’ medicine . |
| 14 | As I got to know Russell I began to be angry at this woman who was still causing him misery . |
| 15 | But it was because I needed other women , and I needed to be truthful about it . |
| 16 | Anyway , one day I started to be sick in reaction to some drugs , and this guy jumped out of bed — the nurses were busy . |
| 17 | Many black adolescents I talked to were conscious of the differences between their own Creole and their parents ' . |
| 18 | If many of Hewlett 's correspondents felt as Mrs Lowndes did , this explains why Hewlett 's letters as edited by Laurence Binyon ( 1925 ) make such unexciting reading ; she herself records that of the three hundred letters printed by Binyon there was only one ‘ which I felt to be characteristic of the man I knew so well ’ . |
| 19 | I meant to be open with him but when it came to it I beat about the bush . |
| 20 | I meant to be fond of her but I found her tiring . |
| 21 | Only a minority of teachers I spoke to were interested in the way of life of their Asian pupils and an even smaller number knew anything about it . |
| 22 | That house was one of the few places where I preferred to be different from the others . |
| 23 | At my boarding school , I learned to be ashamed of him . |
| 24 | And we stood there , me with a great big frown on my face , quite mystified that William could n't see what I was getting at … and William smiling but looking equally puzzled that I appeared to be incapable of understanding what he meant . |
| 25 | I said to be chary of the McLaggans — ‘ No no , there is no harm really . |
| 26 | Yeah , the clothes I had on was identical to that of P C . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | But I had to be content with a phone call . ’ |
| 29 | Nigel assured me that it would be more efficient than the wheel and produce considerably more electricity , and I had to be content with that . |
| 30 | But at the age of twelve I knew that a falconry course was way beyond my means , so for the time being I had to be content with reading about it . |