Example sentences of "i was [conj] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I know said I was but I give the impression from that if you shake hands with them you should count your fingers afterwards |
| 2 | Just possible that you standard because he obviously seemed to think that I was that I had some great possible qualities but |
| 3 | There is no doubt in my mind that I can be the player I was before I got injured . |
| 4 | I was before I came up in the world , true , but lower-middle-class , not working-class . |
| 5 | He asked me how old I was and I said , ‘ forty-five ’ or whatever I was . |
| 6 | I took some yesterday , I was and I took some last night before I went to bed and I took two this morning . |
| 7 | I think I thought they 've got no ideas and then come on with this speaker and I was and I thought , Ooh . |
| 8 | and I had a very sheltered life , I was an only child , I had n't been around much , I had n't stayed away from home erm and I came to Suffolk to visit a girl penfriend who was working at Brandeston Hall and erm she at that time was expecting to get engaged to a chappy in the village here who was , and still is a friend of Hector 's and ours , and they did n't marry in the finish but she at that time wanted me to come up to Suffolk to see her and to meet this chappy who she thought she was going to marry and erm so , it was holiday from the art school where I was and I thought well why not ? |
| 9 | I 'm not riding as well as I was and I 'm not as brave as I was and I have to face facts |
| 10 | I 'm going to tell you right away that , although I was n't a virgin when we married , I was until I left the train with Ludovico . |
| 11 | She knew me as Matt and I did n't want to alert you to who I was until I 'd found out what was going on . |
| 12 | It did n't dawn on me how seriously injured I was until I got into hospital and they sent for a cameraman to photograph me because they had never seen anyone survive injuries like mine and they wanted a record . |
| 13 | ‘ I did n't realise how worried I was until I stopped worrying . |
| 14 | And I was cos I had , I had a massive argument with Vicky about party politics ! |
| 15 | Well I 'm still getting myself in a tangle , like I was when I came . |
| 16 | Well er I went when I was when I went first went and do you know I went into the to the place and do you know I run away from the place . |
| 17 | Similar to what I was when I went . |
| 18 | I know where I was when I wrote assume superb , he assumed the Friends Provident policies were good |
| 19 | And when I was when I got to New York , I was met by two first cousins from two different families er Bert who 's er er nephew of my my mother 's sister Laura Anne in in New York , and another one , William who 'd been very successful vice president of or something . |
| 20 | I know I was when I worked in fruit packing , it 's like someone drops an orange , Urgh urgh urgh ! |
| 21 | six months was down to the two three pounds under the weight I was when I started . |
| 22 | This morning I can kind of feel it , but last night it was as if I was when I swallowed there was a big lump . |
| 23 | I was in the Drama Club when I was when I stayed at home , but we did n't do pantomimes , we we did plays , one act plays , and three act plays , we did three act plays . |
| 24 | Well , there was a porter there , called Len and he , he was eighteen and er of course you know well I I was as I said sixteen , so he was a bit older than me but he , whilst he was at Needham he said well when I 'm eighteen I 'll get my calling up papers . |
| 25 | I was just stupid but I was as I say , since Oct erm when was it ? |
| 26 | I had n't realised how tired I was till I saw that bed . |
| 27 | ‘ When I told Martin that I was 10 weeks ' pregnant with my second child , he enjoyed telling people how clever I was because I 'd arranged it between the interims and the final results ! ’ |
| 28 | What really struck me was that I looked like a concentration camp prisoner . |
| 29 | The first thought that came to me was that I had n't got my clean bloomers on . |
| 30 | When I was arrested in August , one charge against me was that I said I wanted free elections , ’ said Mr Carnogursky , aged 45 . |