Example sentences of "i [vb past] were [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( With a little re-working I even found the sweaters I made were nice enough to give as Christmas presents ! ) |
| 2 | I listened to this tale of woe and as I dug with my tiny spade , wondered what I might find , an arm or perhaps a leg , but the only discoveries that I made were small pieces of coal washed up on the beach . |
| 3 | The watercolours I used were raw sienna , French ultramarine and Indian red , which produced a series of slate greys and browns to match the London brick . |
| 4 | There were a lot of little things that I felt were wrong . |
| 5 | There was only one thing I was ashamed of in my love for Dana , which had sprung from poetry , and from sources I knew were pure . |
| 6 | All the Zodiacs and Zephyrs I knew were maroon with grey down the wing |
| 7 | Erm the daring to the daring to say things which I did , did think were true , but I knew were true because many of them were facts . |
| 8 | The legs I saw were white . |
| 9 | I had rather been hoping that I might see somebody I knew while I was in the town , but the only people I saw were old Mackenzie in the gun and tackle shop and Mrs Stuart in the cafe , yawning and fat behind her Formica counters and reading a Mills & boon . |
| 10 | When David did things that I thought were stupid , or when he did n't turn up , or he 'd turn up ‘ high ’ , I told him I thought he was stupid . |
| 11 | Some of those pieces out of those U two singles I thought were brilliant ! |
| 12 | The hon. Gentleman 's response to the Budget is as empty as that of his right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition , whose comments yesterday , I thought were proof positive that the Michelangelo virus was alive and operating inside the Labour party . |
| 13 | Unusually for me , I saw a few paintings and so on which I thought were lovely , but of course purchase is quite out of the question — and anyway we have no wall space left here ! |
| 14 | Based on what I thought were proper symptoms , Puls. was given but with only temporary relief , and slight lowering of the blood pressure . |
| 15 | First two cases I took were missing persons . |
| 16 | Among the courses I took were Old English , Middle English , Old Norse , English Philology , and Phonetics ( this last course was taught by and , who were among the senior teachers in the Phonetics Department of U.C.L. at that time ) . |
| 17 | Many of the productions I did were huge and elaborate and eventually I felt ‘ burnt out ’ — in need of a ‘ reality check ’ . |
| 18 | The ones I liked were polished walnut but they were eigh |
| 19 | And he said the things I said were silly . |
| 20 | I 'd not been in London long and those lesbian and gay friends I had were involved in squatting more than gay liberation . |