Example sentences of "i was [adj] i " in BNC.

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1 I was sure I was not being followed .
2 I was sure I remembered the oil drum we had just passed .
3 This time I was sure I was in the valley ‘ As dark as death . ’
4 After a few minutes I unexpectedly found myself singing a song which I was sure I had not sung since Eton days forty years before .
5 I told them not to worry , that I was sure I 'd see them again — on the scene .
6 I was sure I would die . ’
7 And as the ship freed herself from the mule-lines and her screw began to chum up a wake of umber , sludgy water , and she picked up speed towards the marker buoys and the farewell beacon on Flamenco Island , I was sure I could see the seamen still , pointing their cameras back — now with long lenses all — towards the statue of Balboa which stands on the Panama City seafront , with the great man gazing out at the Ocean into which the Poles were now , at long last , sailing .
8 For a moment I thought I had been mistaken , and that perhaps I had left the switch on after the light failed , but no , I was sure I had switched off .
9 ‘ But I was sure I was just one of the one in five whose first pregnancy ends in miscarriage . ’
10 He asked me if I was sure I was n't working up some kind of plot against the Threarah and he got awfully angry and suspicious .
11 I was sure I must look a different person , that my guilt and radiance must have transfigured me .
12 I was sure I 'd seen a punch thrown .
13 But I was sure I had seen it after that , slinking , a shadow cat in the tree shadows , black as Egypt 's night .
14 They could n't understand I did n't want to visit you until I was sure I had the strength not to cry .
15 I was sure I was safe — but I was wrong .
16 I was sure I lived there , but I could n't remember if there was a bedroom attached .
17 And I was happy because I was sure I would soon have three good friends .
18 ‘ Well , ’ he said , ‘ I was sure I counted thirteen twice . ’
19 I was sure I knew every earth here .
20 The blood came pumping out and I was sure I was going to die .
21 I wondered if she might ever get frostbite ; I was sure I could see little crystals of ice glinting on her faint moustache .
22 If I was sure I was going to at least 10 home matches next season Id get a kop season ticket straight away !
23 I was sure I could cope but the CF clinic people had all gone home by the time I realised I could n't manage — ’
24 that 's the perfect time and I had this sort of doubt in my mind erm then I was fortunate I learnt a co a very good scripted presentation for getting referred leads and once I started to actually ask , cos that 's all it comes down to , erm then I was getting three , four , in the end I was being quite clever and saying look if you just restrict them to three then I 'll give them the same good service I reckon I 've given you this service
25 ‘ So I was upset I said I did n't want to , I was crying and it made him madder . ’
26 When I was young I was like a stick insect , then at fourteen or fifteen I put on weight .
27 I 'll die happy to know when I was young I was pushing ideas and I was one of the actors saving my country for my grandchildren and all Peruvians . ’
28 When I was young I longed to leap aboard every horse who pranced past .
29 When I was young I had on loan a pony who was atrocious in traffic .
30 Bobby , at No. 18 with Humpin' Around , says : ‘ When I was young I had a cute little collie dog , but one day he bit me real bad .
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