Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [adj] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Each abuse reminded me that I was worthless and throughout my life events have told me that this was so . ’ |
| 2 | I was tongue-tied and shy . |
| 3 | ‘ Even as a child , I was greedy and impatient . |
| 4 | Some trepidation did exist therefore on this occasion but I was fortunate and the MV Brendan had only to negotiate a slight swell on its way past Eriskay to South Uist . |
| 5 | Two years later when I was sixty and four months I was made redundant quite happy . |
| 6 | I was tall and slim but I had an eating disorder and my weight fluctuated wildly according to how I ate . |
| 7 | ‘ I was nervous and Chris 's performance definitely helped me . ’ |
| 8 | I was nervous and frightened about the future , yet excited because of being so . |
| 9 | Although I must confess that I was nervous and wary about meeting him , I had thought that he used his smile as a mask and his laugh as a barrier against what was probably monosyllabic narcissism . |
| 10 | ‘ I was nervous and I was not making my first serves . |
| 11 | When I was eighteen and a half I was let out , but I think I got institutionalised being there three and a half years , and I wanted to stay there . |
| 12 | Cos I saw erm a photo when I was eighteen and I it was sort of short in the neck over my ears short in there and then sort of fuller there and then just a bit of you know a light fringe not a heavy fringe and I thought I might have it like that so |
| 13 | As it turned out I was right and it was just wonderful . |
| 14 | But I 'm sure I was right and they were wrong . |
| 15 | I was warm and sleepy but my master kept haranguing me : compliance seemed the easiest way out so I put on my boots , grabbed my cloak and accompanied him down to the Templar chapel . |
| 16 | ‘ For selfish reasons , I was upset and annoyed that I was left alone . |
| 17 | I was upset and taking it out on you . |
| 18 | I was upset and angry because he had not told me his plans . |
| 19 | I was upset and … ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I was upset and raised my voice . |
| 21 | ‘ I was upset and raised my voice . |
| 22 | and I was upset and I thought it was just that but no , it was about two weeks before that I went down with it . |
| 23 | It forced me to realize that I was normal and that I was human , and that was a big kind of realization for me . |
| 24 | I was proud and delighted when Shimi Lovat invited me to join him as piper , and later , on the morning of 6th June , to pipe his 1st Commando Brigade through the surf and on to the Normandy beaches , where so many men were killed or seriously wounded . |
| 25 | Such as that I was trying to use the priesthood as an escape from my personal frustration , that I was dramatizing my own situation , that I was proud and vain , that my idea of Catholicism was up the creek . |
| 26 | ‘ I was track-running and playing rugby , yet my father never received one sports report from school , ’ he said . |
| 27 | At Kelmscott House I heard Grant Allen recommending State endowment of literary genius : I saw William Morris and I was pleased and awed . |
| 28 | When my father suggested I apply , I was pleased and very excited at the prospect of going to boarding-school , which seemed to me to be an adventure , an escape from boredom . |
| 29 | But I was young and Scottish and I thought I was the greatest . |
| 30 | He had asked me for a photograph of myself when I was young and I had told him to go around and get it from Mandy . |