Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] i was [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could be that he felt I represented authority or the establishment in some way , or perhaps I was just convenient |
| 2 | ‘ Or perhaps I was too ambitious . |
| 3 | For a week or so I was even careful not to wipe my boots on Roper 's pillow . |
| 4 | I had made Lucy take off her anorak so she looked a bit less like an urban guerrilla , even though the T-shirt she was wearing underneath — ‘ Rats Have Rights ’ — was a bit of a giveaway , or maybe I was just paranoid . |
| 5 | Later a radio interviewer from KQED asked me if I 'd been frightened and I said , truthfully , no , adding that maybe I was just too slow and stupid . |
| 6 | Very few people knew that yet I was there when they opened poor Catherine 's dumpy body and took out her heart . |
| 7 | And suddenly I was absolutely certain that this woman was Estella 's mother . |
| 8 | There was never any budget and so I was just using stuff that I 'd already recorded here and there — hence the roughness of it . |
| 9 | And so I was extremely surprised when no more than weeks later Émile telephoned Jean-Claude and proposed to him the idea that he should take up an appointment as composer-in-residence at an American university . |
| 10 | And so I was almost predestined to consider how the two great nations of Western Europe , the Germans and the English , related to one another . |
| 11 | Some of my men were frightened , and perhaps I was too . |
| 12 | If only I was as carefree right now , she was thinking . |
| 13 | They — the earrings — belonged to my mother , so I value them , and naturally I was very concerned when I realised that I had lost — ’ |
| 14 | At any rate , in we went , and soon I was happily splashing around the creeks while Kodiak plunged after sticks thrown by his mistress . |
| 15 | Only a few more yards , and soon I was inside with the door locked after me . |
| 16 | I was naturally hard-working and soon I was extremely successful in my chosen work as a scientist . |
| 17 | ‘ Well , ’ she said , ‘ I just got into town and she said if ever I was here , I should look you up . ’ |
| 18 | and stuff and they 'd be shouting down they were all like , they were all real East End barrow boys and , and just , it was exactly like the film , just talking talking talking all the time on two phones and like , and like I was just so scared to go in there because I , if you do anything wrong they just shout immediately . |
| 19 | This was done in case my main culture got fouled by overfeeding and hence I was always able to start a new culture if necessary . |
| 20 | Up until then I was still pretty naïve when it came to affairs of the heart . |
| 21 | ‘ Because up until then I was absolutely positive that I would eventually manage to get out of the marriage , and it was my plan to seek custody as a single person . |
| 22 | and then I was away and he was n't there any more and I thought , what do I do now ? |
| 23 | Until he died and then I was just . |
| 24 | and then I was just getting worried |
| 25 | And then I was just so late , but I got , I came in Luke , so I was a bit early |
| 26 | That 's in the oh a lot of people did , oh yes , lot of people spent the money but I was one of the fortunate ones I had a little bit left because I mean I was , er I was very lucky myself , I mean I had a decent job at that time from time I left school and when I was on the dredging plant , I mean you take er in nineteen twenty five when er a schoolboy left school , his money was about ten shillings a week as an errand boy but I was one of the fortunate being a cabin boy on the dredger , I was getting thirty five shillings a week which was a lot of money and then after a few months they , I , they wanted another deck hand , so of course I went on there on four pound a week and then I was well off . |
| 27 | I remember one time er these barges , old barges when you used to come up there , they ai n't got any engine in 'em at all because now they got motors in 'em , but erm , at that time , I was asleep one night and er these barges had been up , they 'd been down the the engine room , cos the engine room and the stoke hall was all in one and th and then I was so sound asleep they 'd filled the sacks up with coal and took them up over the and took the only thing they did do they did n't take the shovel they 'd used , cos they bought their shovel from off the barge and they left that downhill that 's how they 'd pinched the coal . |
| 28 | I had the epidural injection in the base of my spine and then I was all rigged up to a machine so the nurses could monitor the baby 's movements . |
| 29 | Then she said " Come on downstairs , Eastenders is on , " so we went down and then I was all right . |
| 30 | And erm tt and then I was there twenty two weeks , as a patient , and er the then the only cure was rest and good food , and fresh air . |