Example sentences of "i [vb past] [pron] be [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's how I used to act , until I realized it was just a sham and I decided that it was time I was honest with myself . |
| 2 | It was n't until I underwent hypnosis that I realised I was still a Catholic . |
| 3 | The adrenaline was certainly pumping , but I realised it was just a matter of getting over those first few minutes . |
| 4 | I 've tried it sometimes , never long enough to know whether I did it successfully or not , but I found there is absolutely no way of telling because even if it changes in a way one can predict , what one can predict is the way oneself changes or the world changes at the same time . |
| 5 | At the same school I also recognised the importance of freedom of choice , when I approached what was then the equivalent of O-levels . |
| 6 | By comparison with a freighter , moored so close her black stern virtually hung over Isvik 's knife-edged bows , she looked very small , but viewing her from the standpoint of the maxi in which I had raced round the world , I guessed she was roughly the same size — at least twenty-five metres long with a good beam and what looked like a deep V-shaped hull . |
| 7 | At times I felt I was just a kind of palimpsest , or a blackboard that could always be wiped clean to make room for his own work . |
| 8 | ‘ I felt it was quite an honour to be picked to represent Scotland ’ , he said . |
| 9 | yeah I mean to be honest it 's just a case of one of you , it does go that way , I knew I was right the first time , of one of you just remembering |
| 10 | I knew it was just a matter of getting the knack ! ’ |
| 11 | There were many other primitives to come but by the time they arrived I knew it was just an attempt to revive attention . |
| 12 | That was July , yes I knew it was quite a bit cheaper . |
| 13 | I knew it was only a matter of time before I would die ’ . |
| 14 | I knew it was only a matter of time before people caught on to what he was trying to do back then ! |
| 15 | I knew there was only the one slice left , but I 've never been the sort deliberately to starve an animal to death , so in it went . |
| 16 | I thought she 's just the type of person which everybody would avoid to speak to , this girl ! |
| 17 | I kept kicking it the other day and I thought well it feels ever so light , I thought there was quite a few left . |
| 18 | I liked the Western Systems WS486SX/33 : I thought it was just a cut above the other three I tested . |
| 19 | I thought it was just a bang on the head . |
| 20 | I thought it was just a or something which I 'd a owed stodge |
| 21 | I thought it was just a decoration . |
| 22 | He said , with his back to me , until you went away I thought it was just the usual thing . |
| 23 | At first , I thought it was just the Luciferi but , on one occasion , I am sure it was due to intervention from the English court . ’ |
| 24 | I thought it was just an absolute on one of those not all . |
| 25 | ‘ And I thought it was simply an invention of the card manufacturers ! ’ |
| 26 | I thought it was rather a bad sign that I was told I could , as a family friend , go in at any time . |
| 27 | There have been occasional sightings of albino or part albino otters in Shetland and , because this was a big animal and looked a bit ‘ grizzled ’ round the muzzle , I thought it was probably a very old dog otter . |
| 28 | I thought it was probably the other one who had rung , on the cadge . ’ |
| 29 | I knew she kept her statements at the bank and went and saw the bank manager now and again , but I thought it was only a few hundred . |
| 30 | I thought it was still the term time . ’ |