Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] i was [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ At a salary less than I was earning twenty years ago in the State system . |
| 2 | So if I was to say to you that you can take him to the Justices if that 's your pleasure - " He turned and fixed Sir Gregory with eyes that radiated hatred from beneath fiery brows — " I do n't think you 'd like that , would you ? |
| 3 | So if I was to say we 've we 've picked our area , what potential instructions do we have do you think , let's say we 've got a good , quite now , what potential instruction do we have with that particular area , that arena rather ? |
| 4 | yes , oh yes , and erm , going back to somebody asked me earlier , erm , about how it , I feel I have to be able to write about , just about anything , erm , and so if I was given commission to write about any one thing I would have to put myself in a position to , to be able to do it . |
| 5 | So if I was working a full week , Sunday to Sunday , the next day would be my rest day , and the next week , it would be a Tuesday . |
| 6 | I used to think going out was like a balance to work , so if I was working hard I would go out to balance that |
| 7 | Roselyn Wong , 17 , student ( far right ) : ‘ This is just my style — especially if I was going out . ’ |
| 8 | There were lesbian nuances I did n't much like ; perhaps because I was beginning to take against the facet in Conchis 's polyhedral character that obviously enjoyed ‘ curious ’ objects and literature . |
| 9 | Perhaps because I was taken for a Jew . |
| 10 | Possibly because everything was so new and different that the impressions could not be fully absorbed , and also perhaps because I was tired most of the time . |
| 11 | In the end , perhaps because I was embarking on other work , the matter was quietly dropped . |
| 12 | To soften the blow I said it was only because I was held in such high esteem in the football world that I had to get rid of any player or , as in his case , friend , who showed any sign of being a no-hoper . |
| 13 | I remember enjoying every moment of it especially because I was watching my father . |
| 14 | And erm =ut er th that that was quite a quite a good school , quite a modern school but I I 'd er I 'd er I was n't able to stay there long because I was approaching my thirteenth birthday you see than . |
| 15 | ( Although I have twice referred to Milton myself , I did so because I was grasping for images to convey something of the reality of the Devil . |
| 16 | You know , I had you in mind constantly while I was making it . |
| 17 | I wondered what he was up to when I spotted him coming back inside while I was looking for you . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Something you threw together while I was unpacking ? ’ |
| 19 | Back in Moose Jaw , busy with newspaper and radio work , it was not long before I was engaged in preparing and delivering a series of illustrated talks on musical appreciation on Wednesday evenings to audiences of 900 or more in the public auditorium of the Technical School . |
| 20 | ‘ Together with my improving physical state it was not long before I was engaged in a voluntary capacity as business counsellor with the local Business Development Venture for which I served for five absorbing years quite happily . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Together with my improving physical state it was not long before I was engaged in a voluntary capacity as business counsellor with the local Business Development Venture for which I served for five absorbing years quite happily . ’ |
| 22 | It was not long before I was ensconced in the dining-room with a pastis and looking forward to dinner . |
| 23 | I only knew one of my grandparents , Grandmother Tapper , as the other three had died long before I was born . |
| 24 | In truth there was no connection , for my original family name was Sillitoe , but , long before I was born , my father had adopted Breakspear as his stage name and I had really known no other . |
| 25 | Fortunately , it was n't long before I was approached by other people to set up a new gallery . |
| 26 | We had ages together before I was taken off to the ward . |
| 27 | I understood this only after I was given the Mont Blanc as a present . |
| 28 | And then , of course , I was n't able to attend much when I was left on my own after Mother and Uncle Tommy died and I had all the milking and farmwork to do myself . |
| 29 | Much as I was itching to play with the Bob Marley , I knew I would have more chance of parking Armstrong illegally when I collected Werewolf . |
| 30 | I had been with Jamie in the pub , then with him and the girl outside , then alone when I was running , and then with Jamie and later him and his mother , then I walked home almost sober . |