Example sentences of "i was [adj] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was my theological college and I was anxious to be sound and reliable . |
| 2 | Although I was anxious to be there I did n't get the chance because Mrs Smith gave birth to a baby girl in the early hours of the morning later that week . |
| 3 | Then came the delicious moment of the aperitivo , that sense of the whole city beginning to wind down towards lunch , which I took at any one of a dozen excellent and welcoming restaurants where I was sure to be hailed and called over to one table or another . |
| 4 | At first I was exhilarated to be able to make such a statement . |
| 5 | ‘ Then I had chronic asthma and doctors found I was breathless from being so heavy . ’ |
| 6 | I was fortunate to be granted full refugee status in under a year , this entitled me to bring my family here . |
| 7 | Arthur Benjamin and Ira Dilworth became close friends , and I was fortunate to be associated with both . |
| 8 | I was fortunate to be able to include in addition to my own account a lecture by the former Lord Justice Devlin in which he took the fourth Appeal Court severely to task for the illogicality of its reasoning and for usurping the functions of the jury , and a chapter by Bryan Magee about his efforts over the years to try to persuade the Home Office to reopen Cooper 's case . |
| 9 | Yes , I c I was fortunate to be able to carry on at the same place . |
| 10 | I felt I was fortunate in being in a position to brighten the lives of radio listeners . |
| 11 | I was right to be cautious . |
| 12 | ‘ I was upset at being kept awake by people snoring , ’ said Fintan , but after a moment he got up and went off to the buttery himself , ‘ because we need to know if the parsley butter is ready , ’ he said rather defiantly . |
| 13 | I was close to being ‘ one of them ’ and definitely ‘ not one of us ’ because of an acquired list of significant differences . |
| 14 | He was a dear , lively little man with the bluest of blue eyes who had himself became a fanatical Anglophile , devoting his life until well into his eighties to the furtherance of Anglo-German relations ; and I was proud to be asked to give one of the brief tributes to him at his memorial service at the German Embassy . |
| 15 | When I won an essay competition in 1957 on " Why I was proud to be a citizen of Leeds " , organised by the Variety Club of Great Britain and the local evening paper , the big event in my London visit was not Buckingham Palace , nor having Norman Wisdom put his arm round me , but gazing at a skiffle group which had played in the 21's coffee bar with Tommy Steele . |
| 16 | And I was proud to be the " vitnery " and part of the life of the town . |
| 17 | I was pleased at being only a metre behind which I had lost at the start , but it was all really anti-climactic after Stuttgart . |
| 18 | I was pleased to be on the move again . |
| 19 | I was pleased to be able to announce that I had followed many of their therapies , but fearfully expressed my alarm and disappointment that having religiously performed my visualizations , cancer may have returned by the back door . |
| 20 | I was pleased to be invited to contribute a foreword for this new journal on technology transfer , not least because its title — Competitive Edge — so aptly sums up what we all want British industry to achieve . |
| 21 | I was pleased to be asked to join the topic group for its last discussion in Newtown . |
| 22 | I was pleased to be sitting here with a strong drink , pleased that I was n't staked out on the basement floor , playing the romantic lead in a snuff movie . |
| 23 | Lord , I was pleased to be free of the place , following the white beaten track first west around London , then south across the downs to Dover . |
| 24 | I was obsessed with being flat-chested and unglamorous and I used to harp on about how he must be hankering for someone more glamorous . ’ |
| 25 | Really the only thing I was disappointed about is that he did n't drink it again ! |
| 26 | But one thing I was impressed with was the friendliness of everybody and the obvious joy that everybody felt . |
| 27 | It was still early morning and , having been unable to confirm my flight by phone ( surprise , surprise ) , I was relieved to be here in good time . |
| 28 | I was relieved to be back in Wiltshire . |
| 29 | I was relieved to be roped up for this . |
| 30 | The straight people I was friendly with were quite realistic about my gayness , even intrigued by it and grew to know what I did and who I met . |