Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] i [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was not wearing any special clothes , but this lady — she was from an old Lucknow family could see by my manners that I was not a common person . ’ |
| 2 | I did not return to work until was 18 months so I was able to see him cut his first tooth , take his first step and many other monumental firsts . |
| 3 | ‘ I had not worked for a few months so I was ready to do something , ’ is how he explains his reasons for doing it . |
| 4 | But other gang members warned my kids that I was to get slashed for grassing . |
| 5 | That one 's very atmospheric , very similar to Sebastian and the stuff with orchestras that I was doing in 1974 . |
| 6 | Impressed that the system was so easy to use , so much more intuitive than the conventional CP/M and MS-DOS computers that I was then used to , let alone the minis and mainframes . |
| 7 | Wise words that I was later to remember . |
| 8 | Again the densities that I was getting back from them varied considerably , from a hundred workers per hectare on some |
| 9 | But even this did n't dispel some of the confusions that I was feeling . |
| 10 | ‘ When I realised after months that I was n't ready to quite , it was a case of ‘ okay , I 've opened the floodgates , how do I close them ? ’ |
| 11 | They never showed any sign of having doubts that I was going to give the total commitment required to be a full time board member . |
| 12 | And , well , I was n't doing anything , so I just started writing songs again — but this time they were guitar-based songs and I was working on a Portastudio . |
| 13 | Right well I let's I I I would go for schools if I were you . |
| 14 | Sometimes my brothers and I were allowed to get out of the car with him and peek at the movie in progress while he spoke to the manager or cashier . |
| 15 | The night air amplified the snort and splash of animals and I was very grateful for the orange glow of the fire through the canvas walls of the tent . |
| 16 | because , yeah well I thought I might and then he said something about I was at this meeting where I was talking to all these official in their suits and ties and I was only dressed casual and I thought , at that point I sort of |
| 17 | Gail was then a nursing supervisor of an Overseas Missionary Fellowship Home for retired missionaries and I was pursuing a high flying career selling shoes . |
| 18 | You , you ha you establish a rapport of listening for a little while to whatever it is that they 've got to say , and their troubles and their anxieties and I was n't happy that |
| 19 | Er everybody else used calculators and I was first finished every time . |
| 20 | Four hours later , three miles on , the lads and I were in our tents . |
| 21 | It took three and a half months and I was just wondering about it the whole time and I thought , ‘ Man , it 's either going to be so good that I 'm never going to want to play another guitar , or it 's going to suck . |
| 22 | The first time I wore this , I 'd had it for about two months and I was talking to Princess Margaret , but as we spoke , I could see she was following my hand with her eyes . |
| 23 | Well I was there about eighteen months and I was still active as a branch secretary for the N U R , the Portobello Branch . |
| 24 | I have asked parliamentary questions about the illegal sale and possession of knives and I was told that 150 people were prosecuted in 1988 for having in a public place such an article with a blade or point and in 1989 , it was 2,018 — a huge jump . |
| 25 | Quite a few of my classmates had done their speeches and I was getting really nervous as the day for my turn drew closer and closer . |
| 26 | And then I m I exchanged in twelve months cos I was lucky I had put my name in two places to get a car . |
| 27 | She sort of collapsed me at the knees and I was down there . |
| 28 | I had a paper to say and they said there was too much money coming in here a week , because you were working that I could n't get anything and I , it said , I wrote , it , it all come when I wrote to say could I have relief off of prescriptions cos I was on that H I V at the time |
| 29 | He walked away five or six steps and I was still there . |
| 30 | He asked me to hold the coffee up to his lips and I was gone . |