Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] i was [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could be that he felt I represented authority or the establishment in some way , or perhaps I was just convenient |
| 2 | ‘ Or perhaps I was too ambitious . |
| 3 | For a week or so I was even careful not to wipe my boots on Roper 's pillow . |
| 4 | I had made Lucy take off her anorak so she looked a bit less like an urban guerrilla , even though the T-shirt she was wearing underneath — ‘ Rats Have Rights ’ — was a bit of a giveaway , or maybe I was just paranoid . |
| 5 | And suddenly I was absolutely certain that this woman was Estella 's mother . |
| 6 | There was never any budget and so I was just using stuff that I 'd already recorded here and there — hence the roughness of it . |
| 7 | And so I was extremely surprised when no more than weeks later Émile telephoned Jean-Claude and proposed to him the idea that he should take up an appointment as composer-in-residence at an American university . |
| 8 | And so I was almost predestined to consider how the two great nations of Western Europe , the Germans and the English , related to one another . |
| 9 | Some of my men were frightened , and perhaps I was too . |
| 10 | They — the earrings — belonged to my mother , so I value them , and naturally I was very concerned when I realised that I had lost — ’ |
| 11 | At any rate , in we went , and soon I was happily splashing around the creeks while Kodiak plunged after sticks thrown by his mistress . |
| 12 | Only a few more yards , and soon I was inside with the door locked after me . |
| 13 | I was naturally hard-working and soon I was extremely successful in my chosen work as a scientist . |
| 14 | and stuff and they 'd be shouting down they were all like , they were all real East End barrow boys and , and just , it was exactly like the film , just talking talking talking all the time on two phones and like , and like I was just so scared to go in there because I , if you do anything wrong they just shout immediately . |
| 15 | This was done in case my main culture got fouled by overfeeding and hence I was always able to start a new culture if necessary . |
| 16 | and then I was away and he was n't there any more and I thought , what do I do now ? |
| 17 | Until he died and then I was just . |
| 18 | and then I was just getting worried |
| 19 | And then I was just so late , but I got , I came in Luke , so I was a bit early |
| 20 | That 's in the oh a lot of people did , oh yes , lot of people spent the money but I was one of the fortunate ones I had a little bit left because I mean I was , er I was very lucky myself , I mean I had a decent job at that time from time I left school and when I was on the dredging plant , I mean you take er in nineteen twenty five when er a schoolboy left school , his money was about ten shillings a week as an errand boy but I was one of the fortunate being a cabin boy on the dredger , I was getting thirty five shillings a week which was a lot of money and then after a few months they , I , they wanted another deck hand , so of course I went on there on four pound a week and then I was well off . |
| 21 | I remember one time er these barges , old barges when you used to come up there , they ai n't got any engine in 'em at all because now they got motors in 'em , but erm , at that time , I was asleep one night and er these barges had been up , they 'd been down the the engine room , cos the engine room and the stoke hall was all in one and th and then I was so sound asleep they 'd filled the sacks up with coal and took them up over the and took the only thing they did do they did n't take the shovel they 'd used , cos they bought their shovel from off the barge and they left that downhill that 's how they 'd pinched the coal . |
| 22 | I had the epidural injection in the base of my spine and then I was all rigged up to a machine so the nurses could monitor the baby 's movements . |
| 23 | Then she said " Come on downstairs , Eastenders is on , " so we went down and then I was all right . |
| 24 | And erm tt and then I was there twenty two weeks , as a patient , and er the then the only cure was rest and good food , and fresh air . |
| 25 | ‘ Well , say I then took Fiona off him and maybe I told him to go find himself another filly and the next thing was he got a pincer-hold on my ear and was bopping me one on the nose and there I was bleeding fit to fill the Frenchy furrows so naturally I gave him one back . ’ |
| 26 | I was and I 'm playing football match and there I was absolutely fucked ! |
| 27 | And in the first lesson nobody noticed and yet I was really noisy , and in the second lesson nobody noticed . |
| 28 | ‘ I was embarrassed at the time because it was a serious occasion but secretly I was also very flattered . |
| 29 | But perhaps I was as oblivious at school as I was at home to the sneers or the impatience of others . |
| 30 | But obviously I was really delighted for both of them , doing so well . ’ |