Example sentences of "i [verb] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second question that I asked was : ‘ Why had the widow got into the situation she was in ? ’ |
| 2 | Another question I asked was how Bill learnt his gardening skills . |
| 3 | Animals always came first — every book I read was about them . ’ |
| 4 | The full title was not visible but what I read was , ‘ Paint along with — ’ Whom , I have been asking myself since . |
| 5 | Well , erm I think the first novel of George Eliot that I read was Adam Bede , and I think that that 's actually quite a good starting point . |
| 6 | I 'd love to be a record success again , but the last LP I made was so bloody personal it was ludicrous : you ca n't write songs about those you love , your children , and expect other people to buy them … |
| 7 | I know some people might think the decision I made was unpleasant and monstrous but I want to tell how I came to make the decision and the reasons behind it . |
| 8 | ‘ The biggest mistake I made was to start playing professional golf so early , ’ he explains . |
| 9 | I BELIEVE the decision I made was commonsense — the right one in the circumstances . |
| 10 | I would like to think that if Freud were alive today , he would have said the same thing , of course when Freud wrote this book in nineteen twenty one er there was no such thing as group psychotherapy it had n't been invented yet , it was to become very much after World War Two but partly existed before and perhaps it 's past its peak now , but erm it did become very much a after World War Two and the point I made was and this is really wh wh what Heather ha h has just said , that if you take Freud 's book on , on group seriously , how can you do group psychoanalysis ? |
| 11 | I mean was n't this , was n't this |
| 12 | You 're in your opinion what do you what were what were generally the motivation behind the girls becoming prostitutes , I mean was it |
| 13 | I mean was it e day to day living ? |
| 14 | Was it I mean was there w I mean wit with regard to custom , Did you get much custom Have you had much custom from people in the flats ? |
| 15 | W was it a decent , well I mean was it a living wage |
| 16 | I mean was this er a possibility that you ought to have a pizza |
| 17 | I mean was it through your friends or family or |
| 18 | I mean was n't was it less attractive |
| 19 | I mean was it |
| 20 | What was it , a sort of fishy ta I mean was it a sort of fishy soup ? |
| 21 | Just got erm , I mean was out in the stick I like to just half a dozen little flight of stairs perhaps with a dozen steps |
| 22 | She was er I mean was a pop s ex pop singer , I 'd only just stopped singing a few weeks before I started to work with Sybil and she could not have been more gracious and generous in helping me get through it . |
| 23 | I mean was there any difficulty learning lines , was there any difficulty walking on stage , acting the part , being an actor , because Adam Faith the pop singer may have brought them in but then he was forgotten on stage was n't he ? |
| 24 | I mean was he a rich peasant , was he a poor peasant or |
| 25 | In those days there was n't a great deal of of mining , I mean was n't open , and er there was a tremendous amount , well there 's a fair amount of of traffic agricultural traffic , and I mean one had to accept that virtually everything came in , all coal , road stone , erm goods required er for well 's who were going at the time , they er they used the railway . |
| 26 | I mean was quite keen |
| 27 | Well I suppose it has in a sense , yes , it 's enabled us to both confront the fact that that I 'm not all knowing and that I 'm not all powerful , which I mean was because my children , as I say , are still quite young , which is something new for them , I suppose , as well as something new for me . |
| 28 | I mean was a man he was management . |
| 29 | Though what came into my mind when I realized was n't Cogito , ergo sum . |
| 30 | The first thing I realised was that I liked her . |