Example sentences of "i [be] [verb] was [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mosquito net I was using was less than perfect and my limbs touched the net at night , so the mosquitoes lined up on the net and bit me through it . |
| 2 | This was all the more so , since part of the problem with which I was faced was due , as I recognized , to lack of forethought on my side , though it had been complicated by a stroke of ill-luck . |
| 3 | I was told that the new drug I was given was better than the one I had been previously taking and I was not warned about any side effects or told not to get pregnant . |
| 4 | I was told that the new drug I was given was better than the one I had been previously taking and I was not warned about any side effects or told not to get pregnant . |
| 5 | ‘ And I suppose you 're going to tell me that the manner in which I was dismissed was standard procedure ? ’ |
| 6 | I was told this was a retrograde step : what I was advocating was narrow nationalism in an age of increasing internationalism . |
| 7 | The food in the Gasthof Widman where I was staying was remarkable . |
| 8 | It turned out to be sensual depression , which I was told was different altogether . |