Example sentences of "i [was/were] [adj] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | In all the years Francis and I were married I never asked him for a cent . |
| 2 | More often than not , if I were awake I would not answer and feigned sleep . |
| 3 | If I were Batty I would have jumped at the offer . |
| 4 | If I were pedantic I would have to exclude it from my description of the Basque country , because Sauveterre is definitely a Béarnais and not a Basque town ; but it is close to the edge of Basse-Navarre , and worth a visit , so I shall rope it in here . |
| 5 | These six lives are all of my spending , and if I were free I would go with any army and take them back with usury . |
| 6 | I was sure I was not being followed . |
| 7 | I was sure I remembered the oil drum we had just passed . |
| 8 | This time I was sure I was in the valley ‘ As dark as death . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I told them not to worry , that I was sure I 'd see them again — on the scene . |
| 11 | I was sure I would die . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ But I was sure I was just one of the one in five whose first pregnancy ends in miscarriage . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I was sure I must look a different person , that my guilt and radiance must have transfigured me . |
| 17 | I was sure I 'd seen a punch thrown . |
| 18 | But I was sure I had seen it after that , slinking , a shadow cat in the tree shadows , black as Egypt 's night . |
| 19 | They could n't understand I did n't want to visit you until I was sure I had the strength not to cry . |
| 20 | I was sure I was safe — but I was wrong . |
| 21 | I was sure I lived there , but I could n't remember if there was a bedroom attached . |
| 22 | And I was happy because I was sure I would soon have three good friends . |
| 23 | ‘ Well , ’ he said , ‘ I was sure I counted thirteen twice . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I was sure I knew every earth here . |
| 25 | The blood came pumping out and I was sure I was going to die . |
| 26 | I wondered if she might ever get frostbite ; I was sure I could see little crystals of ice glinting on her faint moustache . |
| 27 | If I was sure I was going to at least 10 home matches next season Id get a kop season ticket straight away ! |
| 28 | 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 — ’ |
| 29 | 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 |
| 30 | When I was thirty-two I got cancer : |