Example sentences of "i [vb past] [adv] he was " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I looked then at first I could n't see , it was all — you know — black like inside my eyes , but I knew they were open and I could hear the kids yelling — and when I got up he was lying on the sofa , snoring — he must 've just dropped me and let me where I lie- ’ She stopped and Clare sat quietly waiting . |
| 2 | When I got home he was already in his room , whistling away cheerfully . |
| 3 | When I got there he was pleased to see me ; he seemed to expect us to be able to do something about his leg but of course we could n't . |
| 4 | By the time I got there he was dead . ’ |
| 5 | Paul did n't drink a lot , but when I got back he was drunk . |
| 6 | When I got back he was at the cashier 's desk settling the bill . |
| 7 | He had very short dark hair , a really cheeky young lad 's face and later I found out he was very funny . |
| 8 | And I found out he was n't difficult at all . |
| 9 | I was looking at the vectors on either side of him to see if he had any friends and when I came back he was gone . ’ |
| 10 | I think he had a little bit of ill health and my immediate superior took over as Traffic Superintendent and he was there throughout the war and when I came out he was my boss and er you see and er and then in nineteen forty eight was made Transport Manager , because as you say we had to split from Electric Supply and he carried on until erm nineteen seventy two and erm , we had government reorganization and erm they did away with people like the Town Clerk and Transport Manager and erm erm was retired , early retirement , the same as the Town Clerk and erm they brought in a General Manager from away and brought in more staff with him and that was came in and er so I then applied for the position , which was going , there was , there was Traffic Superintendent was going er Chief Administration Officer , Chief Engineer and erm er Bodywork Maintenance Superintendent . |
| 11 | I discovered later he was the marketing manager of a company that sold agricultural fertiliser . |
| 12 | I knew why he was fearful . |
| 13 | If I knew where he was , perhaps I would still try to . |
| 14 | If I knew where he was I would n't have come . |
| 15 | ‘ If I knew where he was why would I come here ? ’ |
| 16 | Oh yes , I knew where he was , even though I 'd been unconscious going in and coming out , because I 'd been there before . |
| 17 | Then I saw why he was so confident . |
| 18 | When I looked round he was standing there with his mouth open , trying to say something . |
| 19 | For a moment I looked away , and when I looked back he was gone . |
| 20 | ‘ Thomas seems to know him well , so I thought maybe he was a cousin of yours or something . ’ |
| 21 | I thought maybe he was getting the same as Richard and Bryony had had , but he 's cheered up . |
| 22 | I thought perhaps he was smoking and reading . |
| 23 | They said well er I thought perhaps he was away preaching , she says oh no they do n't want any of m our people used to go out a lot preaching , but they do n't want any of them now because it 's too deep for them |
| 24 | We got along well because I was sympathetic to his cause , and I understood why he was so disturbed by the obvious discrimination by the white man . |
| 25 | When I went in he was sitting at his desk with a file open in front of him . |
| 26 | And another time he went quiet and he was in the front room and when I went in he was chewing the leg of the settee |
| 27 | So I sat there thinking about life , and when I listened again he was talking about orgasms . ’ |
| 28 | Oh I wondered where he was did you get home early ? |
| 29 | Oh right , I wondered where he was |
| 30 | Of course I knew the path led to the Camus na Dobhrain , and the lawyers had told me that the cottage was let to a girl , so I wondered why he was headed there . |