Example sentences of "i was [adv] [adj] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was majorly unpleased as you can imagine at the time but I think what it does show is that the Indians have got a terrific sense of humour . |
| 2 | Well , like I said , I was sound asleep when Danny 's receiver started crackling and jerked me awake . |
| 3 | So out I went , Halton is ringed with beautiful beech forests and one of my training runs just happened to take me through one of these forests where I felt I was utterly safe except for the birds and the bees . |
| 4 | I was most upset when I saw it . |
| 5 | I was most sceptical when reading all the letters , thinking it must be ‘ fixed ’ . |
| 6 | My rather innocent trust crumbled when I realized that as far as the police were concerned , I was little better than a criminal on whom they must keep tabs . |
| 7 | Well naturally I was I was raving wild when I got up and that 's well the lads I thought they were going to turn the van over tell you the truth . |
| 8 | I , I am a single parent and I was over forty when I had my one and only son now the father walked out but I never deprived my son of knowing who is father was or what he was . |
| 9 | I was rather sorry when the All Clear went . ’ |
| 10 | I was rather relieved since they always smacked a little too much of blood for my taste . |
| 11 | I was slightly alarmed when we got that copy of the Tipton Times , and there was a fire inside it , begging people to come forward for the er |
| 12 | I was dead pleased when she told me but yer see , pal , yer 'll 'ave ter 'ave anuvver fink . |
| 13 | He says now that if he 'd known what it would involve he would have taken the first plane out of town , but I was hugely relieved when he agreed . |
| 14 | The fact that I was not alive when the munich thing happened — and that it happened so long ago — gives me far less problems with it than say heysel songs , hillsboro songs , and even racist ( black ) songs . |
| 15 | I was not sure whether I owed that to Gwenellen , the universal awe of Old Red , or Aline 's being away . |
| 16 | I was not sure whether I looked forward to living in London , where people like Wemmick accepted crime so calmly . |
| 17 | When my hon. Friend the Minister made it clear that such a student would be invisible , that a student returning for the summer holidays would not affect that household , I was not sure whether the hon. Lady was pleased or angry . |
| 18 | I reflected that I was not sure if I had ever been filled with the Holy Spirit , let alone spoken the word of God boldly . |
| 19 | Now that I could be a gentleman , as I had always wished , I was not sure if I wanted to leave my home , which was full of happy memories . |
| 20 | I was not certain whether it was Christian principle or a more cautious understanding of contraception than I had . |
| 21 | The reason why I consulted my brief was because I am to visit the Young Vic shortly and I was not certain whether the hon. Gentleman would appear on the stage or in the audience on that occasion . |
| 22 | She said carrying the water up from the well had taken a great deal of time which , when I saw her filling the bucket , I was not surprised since she lowered the rope slow enough to make me fall asleep watching . |
| 23 | I was not surprised when I heard that the old man had gone to live with Dorothy . |
| 24 | So I was not surprised when he rang me a few weeks later to say that Dorothy was in hospital . |
| 25 | They were recorded on ‘ moulded ’ cylinders , not wax , so I was not surprised when the first one gave sensible sounds at the conventional speed . |
| 26 | Being a close friend of Legrand and Couvelaire , I was not surprised when I first flew the prototype two years ago : soft and light as a feather , brilliant as a refined piece of thinking on how an ideal aircraft should fly , powerful as a civilianised fighter . |
| 27 | But I was not surprised when , several years later , I read that Sir Robert Armstrong , appearing for the government in the Spycatcher trial in Sydney , had admitted to cross-examining counsel that he had been what he called ‘ economical with the truth ’ . |
| 28 | On the following day Jack still seemed to be sleep-walking his way around the course and I was not surprised when he visited the water a couple of times and eventually handed in a score of two over par . |
| 29 | David and Geoffrey were perfectly welcome because they were English , but I was not welcome because I was American , so while they were staying on to see the May Day Parade , I was meant to leave and fly to Berlin where I would wait for David and Geoffrey who were going on by train through Poland . |
| 30 | I was n't present when Dr Allott examined Clare , of course , but I could sense the worry in my parents . |