Example sentences of "and [conj] i [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was little conversation : nothing had happened in Dent that day worth the telling , and it was none of their business to ask where I had come from and where I was going . |
| 2 | The questions of who I was , where I had come from and where I was going struck them with confusion . |
| 3 | I was not involved at all until the open meeting , which I attended and where I was pleased to have this opportunity to give my own personal views . |
| 4 | I went to a clairvoyant once , when I was young and needed to be told , by anybody , who I was and where I was heading . |
| 5 | I used to think of the moor as all my property , my kingdom , I suppose , and I 'd decide where I was going to build my capital city and where I was going to have my hunting forest . |
| 6 | But I remembered who and where I was . |
| 7 | I told him who I was and where I was staying and then forgot the whole incident . |
| 8 | I thought we 'd got such a good start , knowing my mother 's name and where I was born . ’ |
| 9 | Anyway I said oh I said you 're not expecting me , said who I was and where I was from . |
| 10 | He was an authority on the birds of Somaliland and seeing I was interested he showed me his collection . |
| 11 | I did so , and seeing I was of no more use , I rushed inside to awaken my older brother and sister to show them what had happened . |
| 12 | Later they told me that the examination had shown that I was not yet sixteen and that I was to be sent back on the next flight . ’ |
| 13 | I told him not to worry and that I was quite impressed and would be interested in managing the band . |
| 14 | I met a lot of people at my parents ' house , including many people of real ability , and that I was always grateful for . |
| 15 | By the time that was five months old , I felt that we had achieved a bit of organisation in our lives and that I was in a position to offer ‘ something back ’ to the NCT . |
| 16 | I tell him I am a writer and that I was robbed in Cuzco Airport and lost camera , films and all my writing , so I have come to a tranquil place to try to remember . |
| 17 | The only excuse I have is that I was very young , a marvellous justification for most reprobate behaviour , and that I was wearing an uncomfortable vest . |
| 18 | Then I told him that my friends had gone off in the wrong direction and that I was willing to pay the owner of the moped for taking a message to them . |
| 19 | My dear mother 's statement years ago that I deprived her of her fur coat and that I was n't much to look at — she once actually pronounced me ugly — bit deep . |
| 20 | I felt as if my soul was filling with honey and manna and that I was being brought to a mystic feast . |
| 21 | I felt that my running was improving as the season progressed and that I was in with a chance . |
| 22 | For a few days I was too cowardly to tell Shadwell of Pyke 's offer , and that I was not going to do the Moliere . |
| 23 | I wished that I had written to the two women about Donald 's death , and that I was not now obliged to tell them of it . |
| 24 | Then I imagined it was all through my body and that I was going to die . |
| 25 | ‘ I told them my brother could be lying dead somewhere and they said they did n't care and that I was mucking them about , ’ said 18-year-old Joanne , of Stoneleigh , Surrey , yesterday . |
| 26 | Mum said that as a Christian She was not going to write me a note when there was n't anything wrong with me and that I was to remember that we Christians are the light of the world . |
| 27 | The story was so mad that your brother was being told to shoot Martin Meehan and that I was going to be interned for doing nothing . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I do n't know that I ever 'ad one , the orphanage never said I did , but they did say me birthday was December the second , and that I was born in 1889 . ’ |
| 29 | He told me that the oxygen mask had pulled away from my face some , and that I was probably just blacking out . |
| 30 | I assured her that all was as it seemed , and that I was not under suspicion of murder , and that I was indeed doing all I could to help the police . |