Example sentences of "[vb past] i [vb infin] i [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If for example I am pursuing X in the expectation of enjoying it , but when I get it am disappointed , or seem to enjoy it yet afterwards come to recognize that only habit or a false idea of myself or susceptibility to persuasion made me suppose I was enjoying myself , then I was mistaken in doing Y. Every choice of means , however well argued , proves groundless with the discrediting of the end , yet that I did not have the fun I expected is itself no more than a fact . |
| 2 | So he made me pretend I was in a dead faint . |
| 3 | He always made me feel I was doing something wrong . |
| 4 | I failed the Eleven-Plus — that horrible thing and that made me feel I was n't any good . |
| 5 | She was only twenty when she was saddled with me , yet she never made me feel I was a drag , and heaven knows a kid sister must have been at times . ’ |
| 6 | It made me think I was going to abuse my own kids . |
| 7 | I had nearly got myself killed back there : what on earth did I think I was playing at ? |
| 8 | Did I think the big flanker was offside and did I think I was half-held . |
| 9 | Who did I think I was imagining glibly that I could bring up a child all by myself ? |
| 10 | ‘ Did I say I was amused ? ’ |
| 11 | Little did I know I was a fool slipping into danger and the black shadow of Benjamin 's great-uncle would soon trap me . |