Example sentences of "[subord] [conj] i [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " It 's better than where I was , " she said quietly . |
| 2 | The circumstances being what they were , Richard must have known I did not , but since he knew almost nothing about me except that I was willing , he could hardly have been expected to care . |
| 3 | Except that I was all caught up in it , the romance and everything and the sunshine . |
| 4 | Knowing this , I was still impotent , for I had nothing to put in its stead , no one to turn to for advice or support , and I had learned for myself nothing of life except that I was bad at living , and that where I loved I met only rejection and disaster . |
| 5 | For once in my life there was no need to believe as I did or act as I chose for any reasons other than that I was personally convinced it was right . |
| 6 | Now it was I who could n't move ; more than that I was n't even able to form an idea of what it would be like to move . |
| 7 | other than that I was lost . |
| 8 | So I said no , so I 'd better get on with my cooking , so she said oh she said done it on pur colour co-ordinated , I 'm a bit more colour co-ordinated than that I was yesterday I had a |
| 9 | Otherwise , all is fine in the electrics and wiring departments , although if I were a real fanatic , I would change the switch and possibly the pots for the better , USA variety . |
| 10 | I do n't know , although if I were a rich rock star I 'd probably be on the phone to Mr. Manson before you could say ‘ creative accounting ’ . |
| 11 | I was trembling a little , more anxious than if I was going to have a tooth out . |
| 12 | If the content of a putatively infallible belief is merely that things are looking that way to me now , there is clearly less room for error than if I were to risk the belief that that way is pink . |
| 13 | A bookmark showed the page : ‘ J'ai plus de souvenirs que si j'avais mille ans ’ — ‘ I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old . ’ |
| 14 | It has so much depth , much more than if I were to express myself in other languages . |
| 15 | He hit me in the face with the gun ; an inefficient , glancing blow with more chaotic anger than directed malice behind it ; I fell down , correspondingly , more because I felt I ought to than because I was actually knocked out . |
| 16 | But I 've never been able to write except when I was stone cold sober . |
| 17 | The front door had been beautifully oak grained , this is today almost a lost art , although when I was a boy , every painter worth his salt would not only copy woods but also marble . |
| 18 | A nice night 's sleep seems like a nice change , but nightmares have habits of popping up , once when I was five I had a dream that my friends and I were being ripped apart and eaten by a giant , now when the time comes to go into that great big C D tea room in the sky , could you change something ? |
| 19 | And then erm then when er once when I was only little there was a pit strike on I think I 'd only be about seven , somewhere there . |
| 20 | I do n't really I think I might have come across that before once when I was doing my placement on actually . |
| 21 | With the playback that in fact erm as has said it showed me what in fact I was doing right and wrong , erm I 've been on television before once when I was running the London marathon but this time it was actually me and me alone in a work element and I could in fact see what I was doing and why I was doing it and understand in fact the corrections from the morning to in fact the afternoon presentation when I came back for the second one . |
| 22 | But I can remember once when I was at the school Mrs was our music teacher and we were to go from doh to far , you know doh to far , and they used to s , she used to say listen to Mabel , Mabel 's the only one one of you that can go from doh to far . |
| 23 | Yeah well changes platforms of all these trains , anyway after a bit we decided that the Redditch train was going to come in before the train , so , er they did n't change it to say it was n't going to Redditch cos once when I was doing that they said to me , the lad was it , because it 's not to ready to change that time , you would n't matter , cos oh there 's people here waiting to go to Redditch , change it , so he said oh anyway it came , the twelve six came all the young folks going to you should of seen the number that had got off |
| 24 | mum , we had horses in the winter once when I was a baby . |
| 25 | You know , once when I was in Wembley like , another thing that I 've noticed that changed in our place at Wembley , like every time I used to go in there , all , well , when I used to be in there , like , all the lads would be in the office with her like talking to her , and laughing and smiling and and she used to be at the desk smiling and everything and now , when I walk in there now it 's only me like on a Saturday , and it 's only her like nobody else is in there with her , she 's al , she always she 's got , I think what 's happened is she got too deep into her work that she 's she just seems to take all her work now and that . |
| 26 | But in a way she dominates me more now than when I was young . |
| 27 | Certainly subjects are studied at much greater depth than when I was trained . |
| 28 | I can handle success and failure better than when I was young . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's better even than when I was home — all my brothers and sisters in bed with me . |
| 30 | Cos if I was really hungry I used to go upstairs , I 'd get all the frozen veg out , I 'd cook a bit of everything |