Example sentences of "[adv] [coord] i was [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've never been so near to causing a dock strike , ’ says Chris , who adds : ‘ I could n't apologise quickly enough and I was forgiven . |
| 2 | I finished every day mostly at one o'clock and I was to start at half past five the next morning . |
| 3 | After that , Mr Dance went away and I was given some food . |
| 4 | It was n't a nice ten minutes , all the consoling thoughts I 'd scraped together during the night ran away and I was left alone . |
| 5 | So do I and I was just talking to her downstairs and I was asking her like the differences between here and the States , you know the boar cos she was in a boarding school before , and she was saying erm how you know just generally the people are nicer and the blokes talk to you not just because you 're cos they |
| 6 | ‘ It was about 5.30pm , pouring with rain outside and I was making Sophie 's tea when a preacher came to the door and broke the news , but like everyone in that situation you just do n't believe it . |
| 7 | I did a a complete song and it 's finished , right and I was thinking of actually erm seeing my mate in London who 'd get it cut on vinyl record . |
| 8 | Campaign on a what do you call it and erm and funny enough I was reading the Campaign yesterday and I was looking at the er thing and they 've got a sale on have n't they ? |
| 9 | ‘ That was yesterday and I was solving a different problem then . ’ |
| 10 | Before I could persuade him to change his mind , the summer was over , everyone went home and I was left behind . |
| 11 | Describing in today 's Sunday Times of Johannesburg how he found Stompie 's body in Mrs Mandela 's house , Morgan said : ‘ One morning I got to the house early and I was told by Winnie to pick up the dog and dump him . |
| 12 | It opened almost at once and I was confronted by the old lady . |
| 13 | Probably , I do n't know actually it 's really weird it keeps going it went once and I was playing hockey , it was really embarrassing I 'd just played the ball |
| 14 | Well I 'm sorry like but I was getting a few interruptions on the landing |
| 15 | I tried to smile politely but I was beginning to feel frightened . |
| 16 | A few minutes later and I was getting into the rescue ambulance for a short ride to the Belford Hospital in Fort William . |
| 17 | My mother found me floating face downwards and I was saved by artificial respiration . |
| 18 | Wavebreaker settled on her new course and , by the time the small hours were growing , we had left the island 's lights well behind and I was cutting her prow hard into real ocean waves . |
| 19 | We were on to the pudding course by now and I was attacking a delicious crème brûlée with great gusto , while Sally sensibly preferred the fresh fruit salad . |
| 20 | Nothing like this had ever happened to me before and I was determined to make a swift counterattack . |
| 21 | I sa , I was sat there and and then we was in maths , like the lesson before and I was going Zena , I do n't wan na do P E ! |
| 22 | Cos I used this look , I said that erm I 'd re I had represented his father in an accident case some years before and I was acquainted with the family in a casual way , and I said this may suggest , because he was saying you can make up and you can , this is a bit when you can use your imagination , and I said this may suggest that his father , you know he 'd like , because it the way he says that , I 'd represented his father , I was acquainted , you know maybe that he knows he 's used to that kind of erm behaviour from the family , you know , and he knows what Eddie 's like his fa I do n't know I might be completely wrong but I used my imagination there . |
| 23 | As such really but I was gon na |
| 24 | So we were able to tell how many tickets of certain classes were sold each day but not route by route , we 'd lost that that facility because the waybills just were n't big enough and of course the , wa everything got mechanical but now I mean I do n't profess to know anything about what happens now but I was introduced to it when I went down there for a retirement and believe me it 's , it 's all electronics now they can tell how a ticket machine is issuing tickets at any particular one day by this , this electronic business , this computers . |
| 25 | Then she decided to be awkward , like she always is , and said I says oh it 's still taping you know and I s she said summat , I ca n't remember what it were now but I was saying , I knew that 'd happen , one minute yes then no , then I 'll think about it , I says and if I did n't start it when you went out you 'd be saying you could 've done this and that and er so she were chittering , pretending she said I could n't do it . |
| 26 | A long-tailed skua glided serenely overhead and I was entranced by its beauty . |
| 27 | Two years after that , when he had saved enough money , my Mum went as well and I was left in the care of my grandmother , Anita Morrison . |
| 28 | I bought it a few months ago and I was assured they were waterproof . ’ |
| 29 | I was actually mugged on holiday er then years ago and I was held up with a gun and it was the most horrendous feeling |
| 30 | My father died erm sixteen years ago and I was put on to tranquillizers , up until that point I had never needed a drug in my life , and I was put onto tranquillizers and I had a terrible experience ! |