Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [vb past] i [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once I reached the ski-road I thought I was ‘ home and dry ’ , until turning a bend I was confronted by a bull . |
| 2 | The first time i spotted a puffin I thought I was seeing things . |
| 3 | At first glance I thought I was looking at a cross between a gibbon and a goat . |
| 4 | As a P.C. I felt I was not a success . |
| 5 | We went into my room at last , with our arms round each other , and in the doorway I stopped dead because I 'd forgotten what Toby had said about John and for a second I thought I was in the wrong room . |
| 6 | The question which beset me was , ‘ Has all this suffering , this dying around us , a meaning ? ’ |
| 7 | I was n't in my final year but the boy who took me was . |
| 8 | William Shakespeare left his wife his ‘ second best bed ’ , and an industrialist from Philadelphia who died in 1947 included among his bequests , ‘ to my wife I leave her lover , and the knowledge that I was n't the fool she thought I was ’ . |
| 9 | The menu plan they gave me was all doughnuts , porridge with cream , big steaks , milky drinks and huge puddings . |
| 10 | That 's not me by the way in case you thought I was phoning myself it 's not me . |
| 11 | The gas station attendant was an Israeli Arab , a young man with light brown hair who assumed I was a tourist and wanted to know what I was doing in the cold far north of Israel in winter . |
| 12 | I was afraid to ask in case she said I was n't to come any more . |
| 13 | I had n't seen her since you went to America , and then about six months ago I was staying the week-end with the Coleworthys and I thought I had better drop in to see the old girl in case she heard I was in the neighbourhood and took offence " |
| 14 | For a moment I thought I was with Alan Bennett . |
| 15 | From the moment I arrived I was immensely impressed by the pomp and the ceremony which surrounded my uncle as Viceroy , fascinated by the splendour of the bodyguard , and the varied liveries and elaborate turbans of the doorkeepers , messengers , coachmen , household servants and other functionaries . |
| 16 | ‘ I have a machine , ’ I faltered , but from the look in her eye I knew I was defeated . |
| 17 | The first lecture I gave I was going on about the different approaches to psychology . |
| 18 | ‘ The job he offered me was a sort of general factotum , a personal troubleshooter , but he wanted someone with a financial background . |
| 19 | On our first meeting he thought I was a removal man working for Frank and Salome who had gone on to higher things ( mainly higher rates , mortgage repayments , so fourth , so fifth ) . |
| 20 | For a while I felt I was in heaven , eating and drinking in the warm , pretty room , with kind Miss Temple and Helen . |
| 21 | But in a little while I knew I was to have a child . ’ |
| 22 | I still kept the idea of being a lawyer through studying at night school , but , after a short while I decided I was really going to follow up a boxing career . |
| 23 | I was shaking and sweating so much in the confessional I thought I was going to faint . |
| 24 | One night I dreamed I was a butterfly and , upon waking , was never able to discern whether I was a man who had dreamed that he was a butterfly or a butterfly dreaming that he was a man . |
| 25 | That night I dreamed I was on a ship again , and Alec was captain . |
| 26 | Three helico , oh , or helicopters went over three times in the night I thought I was gon na raped and pillaged but no luck ! |
| 27 | The night I arrived I was walking around the streets on my own looking for work . |
| 28 | Last night I dreamt I was eating a rubber NME . |
| 29 | As the train approached Edinburgh 's Caledonian Station I found I was as nervous as on my first journey to Bletchley . |
| 30 | er Andrea has even , I suppose it was one day last week she was happened to speak about ooh she said I was only thinking d the other day she said I was long the longest with Richie R Richie |