Example sentences of "i was [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ However , Formula One had the priority and I was protective of it . |
| 2 | This was my theological college and I was anxious to be sound and reliable . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This faster stream chatted about the mysteries of calculus , and were happy to help me as I was anxious to he helped — but not with calculus . |
| 5 | Recently my father-in-law died , and I was anxious for our children to go and see him and say goodbye . |
| 6 | I says I want to learn sommat so I went to and I do n't know what it was , whether it was my attitude , but they , they asked me to do this and I was so good at it , so they started finding jobs for me and it was at and I was anxious for knowledge , and I tell you took anything on , which is important and the big firms did n't . |
| 7 | For this reason I was apprehensive about the approach to The Grey Corries , a fine ridge-walk to the south of Spean Bridge . |
| 8 | If I was born on the eleventh of the eleventh of the eleventh right , no if I was born on the eleventh about nineteen hundred , then on the eleventh of the eleventh of the eleventh of the eleventh , announce , that 's when I was born zero , six , six , eleventh , eleventh , sixty-six , I was eleven on the eleventh of the eleventh of seventy-seven , I was , I was twenty-two on the eleventh of the eleventh , eighty-eight , I was thirty-three on the eleventh of the eleventh noticed how they 're all double all the way through |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Eventually , when I was sure of my husband 's adultery , I left him , taking my one-year-old daughter . |
| 11 | Now that there was somebody else here , the thought of going back , the thought of the house and the valley being empty again — this time forever , I was sure of that — seemed so terrible I could not bear it . |
| 12 | But she was marrying Changez out of perversity , I was sure of it . |
| 13 | Breast cancer — I was sure of it , hence the blood irregularity . |
| 14 | This early in the summer most of the hurricane tracks lay well to the south of the Bahamas , but the islands could still be racked by ship-killing tropical storms and , till I was sure of Wavebreaker 's rigging , I would not go too far from safe harbours . |
| 15 | ‘ Nanny Brougham told you , I was sure of that . ’ |
| 16 | It was Montaine , I was sure of it . |
| 17 | When I was a little older I enjoyed going there because I was sure of meeting some of the boys I liked , but on these matters Don Cattabianchi was very strict . |
| 18 | Thank God he did n't know what I was sure of , that I felt everything as if through a mattress . |
| 19 | It was just a matter of time before she showed her true feelings , I was sure of that . |
| 20 | I was sure of that . |
| 21 | I was sure about |
| 22 | It was a miracle that I was alive at all . |
| 23 | It was as though I had died to the old way — and yet I was alive in a new kind of way . |
| 24 | I was alive like running in Granny 's fields . |
| 25 | This seems strange to me now because I feel sure that if I had been presented with the image of the glass coffin when I was well into the depressive phase of anorexia , I should have recognised it instantly . |
| 26 | I was well into my teens before I even knew there was a word to describe these secret feelings I had , let alone that they had been legislated against . |
| 27 | I was well into hand knitting then . |
| 28 | I was well into my holiday before I learnt Margaret 's real reason for looking so elegant that afternoon . |
| 29 | I was well on my way |
| 30 | I was able to get back into some of my trousers and I was well on the way to my ultimate goal of health and fitness . |