Example sentences of "i was [vb pp] [conj] [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But er so when we came Mrs the sight reading of course I was lost because she used |
| 2 | I was overtired and I could n't go off to sleep . |
| 3 | I was irritated that he could imagine I would want to go back to him . |
| 4 | Again , I was moved that he should have perceived how miserable an exile to the Persian Gulf would have been . |
| 5 | ‘ I was warned that I 'd miss the thing I was addicted to . |
| 6 | I was assured that one could discuss any aspect of the Queen 's Speech . |
| 7 | I was assured that they would be covered in the clause regarding ‘ personal items and jewellery whilst away from home ’ for which an extra premium would be necessary . |
| 8 | I was assured that it will pick everybody up . |
| 9 | I was damned if I would show him my fear . |
| 10 | I know I was contracted but I ca n't really remember . ’ |
| 11 | Nevertheless , I was determined that we would publish our Green Paper in time for a proper consultation and the preparation of legislation in the autumn . |
| 12 | I was determined that I would not weep or make the parting harder for him , and I managed to say goodbye taut and dry-eyed . |
| 13 | I was determined that I would not communicate this nervousness to my sons , and so I did my best not to react should we come across a dog in the street . |
| 14 | They had caused me many heartaches and disillusions , and I was determined that it should never happen again . |
| 15 | Whilst I was in Aachen the Head of Swedish Radio invited me to Stockholm to conduct the new Radio Orchestra and I was asked if I would do the Sixth Symphony , which was quite new then and very little known . |
| 16 | Moments before the Prime Minister presented me with the trophy , I was asked if I would pose in the sea for a tourism promotion picture . |
| 17 | Then , in 1963 , I was asked if I would write a piece on my own work for Living Arts , an immaculately produced but short-lived ICA magazine . |
| 18 | That 's including Chippingfield if you had seen it as we saw it when we came here you would recognise how much work has gone into building the town because I was on the the council then I was asked if I would stand for the council which was then only a parish council there was no urban district council that was n't formed for four or five years afterwards and of course , we had to fight for lights everything that , er that we needed we had to fight for because there was no lighting on Netteswell Road where our children were going to school , and there were little ones . |
| 19 | Erm I went into residential social work first , erm but that was after twenty years of teaching erm in various parts of the country , I was in , Bradford , and then I spent seven years in Africa , where I also erm was a teacher , and when I came back from Africa , I was asked if I would just replace someone that was going on a course , in a residential er the mother and baby home it was actually . |
| 20 | I was invited to give an entertainment at the Bristol Old Vic theatre , the wonderful old Theatre Royal , the oldest extant theatre still being used in the country and one of the oldest in the world , a very beautiful place erm and I was asked if I would do an entertainment that I have called Come for the Ride which I was persuaded to concoct by my home town of Birkenhead in the North West of England . |
| 21 | I was asked when I would be collecting it . |
| 22 | At the time , I wrote to Knitmaster ( as was ) , explaining what I wanter to do , but I was told that it could n't be done . |
| 23 | I was told that it could spread through the intestines to the stomach and lungs and then you had pretty much had it . |
| 24 | Before I ever had healing I was told that I might feel tingling or warmth , but alas , I can not truthfully say that I ever felt either , although of course , with hands laid on you , or just above you , there must be the sensation of touch . |
| 25 | I was told that I would be given the money when I got to Singapore . |
| 26 | The wood opposite was smoking with dusk again and I was looking forward to seeing the orderly , when my door was opened and I was told that I would be moved across to the main camp at once . |
| 27 | I was told that I would have to take a strange aircraft that night , I learnt that my aircraft had been damaged by flak — and Italian flak to boot — and one of my lads was in hiding as he claimed I had threatened him with dire punishment if he damaged my aircraft . |
| 28 | When I was told that I 'd have to share a kitchen and bathroom with strangers I could n't help thinking how this would astound the people at home , how they would snort with laughter at the idea that this could really happen in England , mother of civilization . |
| 29 | I was promised that I could learn t I could be a nurse if I went and I went to the Bishop of Liverpool 's erm household in Liverpool . |