Example sentences of "[adv] i [was/were] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If I make a mistake , I would much rather I was the guy who got the shrapnel . |
| 2 | ‘ If only I were a dog ! ’ he thought desperately . |
| 3 | Perhaps I was a bit hasty , but I did read the lease , you know . |
| 4 | So I was a bit nicer at supper-time and said I needed a bath ( which I did ) . |
| 5 | And then I was just so late , but I got , I came in Luke , so I was a bit early |
| 6 | However , I now see that there could have been less concurrence between them on this matter than I had supposed , and so I was a disappointment to both of them . |
| 7 | So I was the owner of an empty container in which were things that I have never seen nor wished to know about . |
| 8 | If I thought I could unmake my old self so easily I was a fool . |
| 9 | I chose to go to Worlingworth primary school , I was working with the infants , generally I was a classroom helper . |
| 10 | No one waited , which was hardly surprising , for according to the board outside I was an hour early . |
| 11 | Such were the times , and what was more I was a man with a foreign passport and working in an embassy , and that made it much harder for me to collect . |
| 12 | Oh , once I was a policeman young and merry ( young and merry ) , |
| 13 | ‘ Once I was a Catholic , ’ he stuttered , ‘ till my wife died . |
| 14 | Mm I mean he looked at me like I was a bit silly and it was only when I got it and looked he 'd got after Christmas written |
| 15 | The invitation had arrived only three weeks ago ; clearly I was an afterthought . |
| 16 | Thankful to hear the change in his tone , I responded with a less playful punch , and soon we were on our feet slapping at each other with a wild hilarity , a contest in which inevitably I was the loser . |
| 17 | Now I was a man of property , the joint owner of a large house in North Oxford , with investments so extensive I had no detailed idea of their scope and access to current and deposit accounts totalling well into six figures . |
| 18 | Now I was a lot skinnier then than I am now , about seven and a half stone , and they tried to say that ! |
| 19 | And erm but I mean I remember when I I was doing er work with the Open University now I was a sort of er tutor with them or counsellor with them and I think we used to say ten to fifteen hours work a week |
| 20 | So now I was an estate agent . |
| 21 | Well I was a crane driver from nineteen thirty two till I went stevedoring , what time would that be , oh about nineteen fifty five I reckon . |
| 22 | No well I was a bit gutted that they had loads of post , I did n't get any , and like |
| 23 | I 's a year since Well I was a lot better since |
| 24 | Well I was a drama student at the time and I suppose erm |
| 25 | You know that I should be interested , well I was the secretary of Labour Party for a time . |
| 26 | So your dad said , well I was the boy next door but one . |
| 27 | Yeah , well I was an army kid was n't I ? |
| 28 | Well I was an A R P warden during the war . |
| 29 | As an illustration of what I mean , two years ago I was a member of an IBM audience listening to just such a presentation from an " expert " from another well known company in the electronics industry . |
| 30 | Thirty years ago I was a research assistant , part of a team working on a project designed by someone else . |