Example sentences of "and [verb] [conj] i was [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My mum got home from work about 10.30 p.m. and asked if I was all right , but I told her that I thought it was a false alarm . |
| 2 | I fell in love with snooker when I was about fourteen , but when I got to about sixteen or seventeen , I started travelling around and playing in junior competitions and realized that I was very good . |
| 3 | I do not ever recall being quite as sick and shaken as I was then , about an hour and a half ago . |
| 4 | After I had finally collected my British passport from Petty France , I bought an Evening Standard and found that I was n't in the team . |
| 5 | Her mouth was everywhere , biting me and sucking my mouth and kissing me , and her fingers pinched and stroked her legs coiled round my legs until every bit of me was throbbing and burning and twitching and I was only conscious of never wanting it to stop . |
| 6 | After all , we were no ordinary family , but a clan : I was told by my mother always to hold my head up high , and remember that I was not only a MacLeod , but a double MacLeod — MacLeod being also her maiden name . |
| 7 | He glanced at the paint pot and brush that I was still holding . |
| 8 | I telephoned the next day , and the producer , having chatted with me awhile and ascertained that I was not a nutter ( I think ) , asked me to make a programme . |
| 9 | But by my late teens I had come to find this attitude repellent , and knew that I was never going to fulfil my parents ' expectations . |
| 10 | I wanted to scream and scream but I was too frightened . |
| 11 | I only had to shut my eyes and inhale and I was back in Russia . |
| 12 | By this time I had released both canoe and paddle as I was much more concerned about my own safety than anything else . |
| 13 | Slaven added : ‘ I was disappointed and hurt that I was not even on the bench . |
| 14 | Eventually , I came to my senses and accepted that I was not fit enough to train like a 2:10 marathoner . |
| 15 | For example , to Mrs Thrale he described the scene of this famed moment of quietude briefly — ‘ on a green bank , with a small stream running at my feet , in the midst of savage solitude , with Mountains before me , and on either hand covered with heath ’ — then commented , ‘ I looked round me , and wondered that I was not more affected , but the mind is not at all times equally ready to be put in motion . ’ |