Example sentences of "[noun sg] i [verb] i was " 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 | Of course I wish I was a boy . |
| 3 | The first time i spotted a puffin I thought I was seeing things . |
| 4 | At first glance I thought I was looking at a cross between a gibbon and a goat . |
| 5 | As a P.C. I felt I was not a success . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | And er during the time I was in in Albert Street although I was still very interested in the union and on the committee I think I was president or vice president at the time , there the job for a local organizer come up . |
| 8 | For a moment I thought I was with Alan Bennett . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ I have a machine , ’ I faltered , but from the look in her eye I knew I was defeated . |
| 11 | The first lecture I gave I was going on about the different approaches to psychology . |
| 12 | But towards the end of my anorexic period I think I was verging upon mental illness in the sense that even those who disbelieve in it might accept , that is , I had become out of touch with reality as perceived by others and unable to cope with demands of everyday life . |
| 13 | For a while I felt I was in heaven , eating and drinking in the warm , pretty room , with kind Miss Temple and Helen . |
| 14 | But in a little while I knew I was to have a child . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I was shaking and sweating so much in the confessional I thought I was going to faint . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | That night I dreamed I was on a ship again , and Alec was captain . |
| 19 | Three helico , oh , or helicopters went over three times in the night I thought I was gon na raped and pillaged but no luck ! |
| 20 | The night I arrived I was walking around the streets on my own looking for work . |
| 21 | Last night I dreamt I was eating a rubber NME . |
| 22 | As the train approached Edinburgh 's Caledonian Station I found I was as nervous as on my first journey to Bletchley . |
| 23 | LOURDES is a very special place , there I felt humble and I had a realisation that no matter what pain or trouble I had I was by no means alone . |
| 24 | This attitude is not uncommon but it was new to me , as were a good many of Sophie 's ideas , and because of its novelty I think I was unconsciously moulded by it : I had begun to see Richard as someone to be ‘ got round ’ , a duped enemy rather than a husband . |
| 25 | Sometimes when I see Panna with her baby I wish I was a woman and had a husband and a child . |
| 26 | In a fitful sleep I dreamt I was swimming through drowned villages . |
| 27 | A tranquil mood had come over me , and for this reason I believe I was again motoring very slowly — probably at no more than fifteen miles per hour . |
| 28 | The next thing I knew I was looking straight up the barrel of this gun because the Fairey Fox was no more than 12ft away from the cabin and the pilot was very annoyed . |
| 29 | I just slipped , next thing I knew I was down here ; funny thing is , it do n't really hurt — I ca n't feel much at all . ’ |
| 30 | The next thing I knew I was on the floor . ’ |