Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] i [was/were] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think I 'm English because I was born here . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I always found it very funny when I was referred to as Mr Laura Ashley , especially as I hated my own name , Bernard . ’ |
| 3 | But I did n't know if I 'd done something wrong when I was taken away from my mother . ’ |
| 4 | Remained blissfully unaware till I was seated on this train to Lausanne that reservations and supplements were OBLIGATOIRE on all TGV trains , so I had to fork out about £12 as a result . |
| 5 | From outside it looked like a faded bell but within was a brilliant and sumptuous chamber of fiery gold adorned with most exquisite tapestry , and it moved me as much as I was moved when I saw the dome of the Blue Mosque at Isfahan , the most beautiful building I have ever seen . |
| 6 | Sharp Samson are paying me more , not as much as I was offered by the others , but I 'm satisfied because more money does n't mean I 'll be faster or happier . |
| 7 | This was something I was able to develop very much when I was appointed as director for life of the Vienna Singverein . |
| 8 | It was eighty six when I was sent up to with it . |
| 9 | I thought it would make me feel less helpless if I was opposed by something definite . |
| 10 | I was using regular for about two years after that until I was sent down . |
| 11 | ‘ I moved over to auditing and I think I was very lucky because I was promoted quite quickly . |
| 12 | ‘ I had to do a scene with an actor playing Big Ears and was thrilled when I was told I 'd got the part , ’ she said . |
| 13 | I have never won anything before and I was absolutely thrilled when I was told . ’ |
| 14 | And my reverie had begun to include some delightful visions of how Sergia might make me welcome when I was interrupted . |
| 15 | When I was in the USA , I had no roots at all because I was born in Europe . |
| 16 | They were n't even married when I was conceived . |
| 17 | ‘ I was playing in a particular game and did not think I had done anything spectacular at all when I was approached by Heffernan who told me that he wanted me for the Ireland team to play Australia in the Compromise Rules series , ’ recalls McGilligan . |
| 18 | As long as I was forced to stay awake I shrank from any stimulus to sensation ; now I relax and welcome the fading sensations until they are extinct , and for a few minutes will notice impressions of which I am normally unaware , such as the twilight images on the edge of consciousness . |
| 19 | I was perfectly happy until I was sent to school at the age of five . |
| 20 | I 'm angry because I was told it would be relatively straightforward to get a divorce and I did n't foresee any of this . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm angry because I was told it would be relatively straightforward to get a divorce ’ |
| 22 | The next morning I was a day older , no wiser and put in a bad mood right from the off because I was dragged from the Land of Nod kicking and screaming ( well , grunting and stumbling actually ) by the Celtic Twilight hammering on my door . |
| 23 | I remember feeling really happy when I was told I had at least six or seven years to live . |
| 24 | I 'd felt powerless when I was abused as a child and I 'd felt the same powerlessness with the bank manager . |
| 25 | I must admit I kept him tied up for longer than I was advised as I wanted to make sure he was capable of moving about safely as he invariably would want to look out of the door and then go back to his food . |
| 26 | ‘ It was rather more difficult when I was based in London between foreign postings . |
| 27 | Imagination from other viewpoints depends on my having already perceived something analogous from the then present and my own , and is undernourished if I was distracted at the time by consideration of the future or of others . |
| 28 | When I was due to arrive in Tasmania to stay with a geologist colleague , Penny Green , you can imagine that I was n't too displeased when I was asked if I minded going on the odd fishing trip as the whole family was ’ into ’ it ! |
| 29 | ‘ I was upset when I was told stand ins would be used , ’ he said . |
| 30 | Anyway , when I come back about half past eight as I was told to do , you know , there were no disputing it , you could n't sa , say half past eight and be nine , like they do today , my dad says er where 's the model ? |