Example sentences of "i was [conj] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well there used to be one on the corner of Street and Street that was , that was a pawnshop right opposite the churches facing it the church were on the one corner Street and used to be on the opposite corner , and Johnny was a member of the church choir as I was after I was ten years ol ten years old , I Mr he must have thought I could sing he sent me down to St Paul 's and I , I went to St Paul 's Church on the corner of Street and I did n't stay there long because it was I was still working part- time I was still a schoolboy but er I did sing in the choir at St Paul 's Church for a time , and then I went , I went back to St Mary 's and All Saints in Palfry as a choirboy and er we used to have choir practice once or twice a week , I know we had it Wednesday night , the choir master was Albert Edward he was a butcher , kept a butcher 's shop on the corner of and |
| 2 | Now I know said I was but I give the impression from that if you shake hands with them you should count your fingers afterwards |
| 3 | I know I told you that I was but I was feeling sorry for someone , not Emma or anyone like that . |
| 4 | Just possible that you standard because he obviously seemed to think that I was that I had some great possible qualities but |
| 5 | I 'll now tol t no I know I told you that I was that I was feeling |
| 6 | There is no doubt in my mind that I can be the player I was before I got injured . |
| 7 | I was before I came up in the world , true , but lower-middle-class , not working-class . |
| 8 | It took me four to five months to get back to the weight I was before I was pregnant . |
| 9 | I needed to find out who I had been told I was before I could contradict it . |
| 10 | Oh I was and I used to go , and the first place I went to , let me think , it was Dunoon . |
| 11 | He asked me how old I was and I said , ‘ forty-five ’ or whatever I was . |
| 12 | I think I thought they 've got no ideas and then come on with this speaker and I was and I thought , Ooh . |
| 13 | I 'm not riding as well as I was and I 'm not as brave as I was and I have to face facts |
| 14 | I 'm not riding as well as I was and I 'm not as brave as I was and I have to face facts |
| 15 | and I had a very sheltered life , I was an only child , I had n't been around much , I had n't stayed away from home erm and I came to Suffolk to visit a girl penfriend who was working at Brandeston Hall and erm she at that time was expecting to get engaged to a chappy in the village here who was , and still is a friend of Hector 's and ours , and they did n't marry in the finish but she at that time wanted me to come up to Suffolk to see her and to meet this chappy who she thought she was going to marry and erm so , it was holiday from the art school where I was and I thought well why not ? |
| 16 | I took some yesterday , I was and I took some last night before I went to bed and I took two this morning . |
| 17 | Ca n't remember where I was and I was I ear-holing really , I was listening to a conversation that this woman was having ca n't think where it was dad ! |
| 18 | I was and I 'm playing football match and there I was absolutely fucked ! |
| 19 | I 'm going to tell you right away that , although I was n't a virgin when we married , I was until I left the train with Ludovico . |
| 20 | There I was until I was seventeen , to emerge improbably as an existentialist . |
| 21 | ‘ I did n't realise how worried I was until I stopped worrying . |
| 22 | She knew me as Matt and I did n't want to alert you to who I was until I 'd found out what was going on . |
| 23 | It did n't dawn on me how seriously injured I was until I got into hospital and they sent for a cameraman to photograph me because they had never seen anyone survive injuries like mine and they wanted a record . |
| 24 | And I was cos I had , I had a massive argument with Vicky about party politics ! |
| 25 | Actually I was cos I I had the back door open and I thought I 'll just leave it and if he wants to come in he can and I poured him a a bit of a drink of milk and er , then I went in the kit , in the bathroom and the door was still open and then suddenly I thought God I wonder where he was ? |
| 26 | " We expect you to knock off three stories a day , " I was told-and I 'd give a wry look and a grin of resignation to the film crew . |
| 27 | six months was down to the two three pounds under the weight I was when I started . |
| 28 | Well I 'm still getting myself in a tangle , like I was when I came . |
| 29 | This morning I can kind of feel it , but last night it was as if I was when I swallowed there was a big lump . |
| 30 | And when I was when I got to New York , I was met by two first cousins from two different families er Bert who 's er er nephew of my my mother 's sister Laura Anne in in New York , and another one , William who 'd been very successful vice president of or something . |