Example sentences of "[pron] was [adv] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was majorly unpleased as you can imagine at the time but I think what it does show is that the Indians have got a terrific sense of humour . |
| 2 | I was immediately convinced that this was the guy . |
| 3 | As a headteacher of a state primary school I was immediately aware that I would be asking the staff who worked with me to take on new responsibilities . |
| 4 | Well , like I said , I was sound asleep when Danny 's receiver started crackling and jerked me awake . |
| 5 | I was utterly depressed and silences fell in which she steadfastly looked away and then took a quick little bite of a glance . |
| 6 | So out I went , Halton is ringed with beautiful beech forests and one of my training runs just happened to take me through one of these forests where I felt I was utterly safe except for the birds and the bees . |
| 7 | I was disgustingly fat and clumsy and exceedingly plain . ’ |
| 8 | I was later puzzled that it did indeed happen as we had prayed it would . |
| 9 | I was badly frightened and my whole body was trembling . |
| 10 | I was scarcely conscious but Pat helped me out of the machine and as the dinghy had n't emerged after the ditching we had to swim about 250 yards to the beach . |
| 11 | I was generally optimistic but emphasised the potential for serious attacks . |
| 12 | Having just read the article on Dumfries and Galloway by Barry Ward , I was both delighted and slightly amused . |
| 13 | It was Li Chao who first suggested I should have a Chinese name and I was both grateful and honoured when in the course of time he gave me the three-character name of Tdong Lao Fu which meant , literally , ‘ Portrait of Happy Man Climbing Mountain ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ I was both thrilled and relieved to see him again , ’ Dave said . |
| 15 | He had spent in promoting the scheme money that could have been used in establishing it , and I was both impatient and critical of his capacity to launch and support a large new artistic organisation , particularly as his ideas of who would give him money were hopelessly unrealistic . |
| 16 | Uncertain about Regency conventions , I was both embarrassed and charmed , but she gestured that I was to stay . |
| 17 | Landing in the Beastie Boys ' swimming pool , I was amazed to find I was both naked and still in employment . |
| 18 | Haines assured me that everything at his end would remain secret , but a few years later I was both surprised and vexed to find that he had retailed the story in his memoirs without any indication of his pledge of confidentiality . |
| 19 | Although I was sad to say goodbye to Bessie , I was both excited and nervous about the new places I would see , and the new people I would meet . |
| 20 | I was most impressed and asked him if there was ever any comeback . |
| 21 | I was most upset when I saw it . |
| 22 | I was most sceptical when reading all the letters , thinking it must be ‘ fixed ’ . |
| 23 | Both had been arrested and were charged with serious terrorist offences , of which I was sure they were totally innocent ; although I was equally sure that they had engaged in active political propaganda , which in some ways would have been no less objectionable to the South African government . |
| 24 | He was evidently pleased , and I was equally surprised and flattered . |
| 25 | Well naturally I was I was raving wild when I got up and that 's well the lads I thought they were going to turn the van over tell you the truth . |
| 26 | During my relatively short period as a city detective , I was implicitly aware that quality had to be sacrificed to quantity , for the ‘ arrest list ’ was checked monthly and the numerical totals counted . |
| 27 | Anyway they questionedme and realised I had nothing to do with it and I got a letter saying I was completely innocent and apologising profusely |
| 28 | I was 19 before I was completely well and able to accept the real me . |
| 29 | And he said I was completely confused and I could n't , he said I was trying to shout my wife and erm and , er , you know my mouth would n't work , he said , but she said fortunately she looked through the window and er found him and they took him to hospital . |
| 30 | I was rather flabbergasted that anyone had paid any attention to what I had said . |