Example sentences of "i was [verb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In 1979 , as a member of the Labour Party Young Socialists , I was gutted , as indeed we all were , when Labour lost the election having been brought down by the ‘ Tartan Tories ’ . |
| 2 | He knows exactly what 's going on , so I was gutted when the manager signed Nigel Spackman to play alongside him . |
| 3 | ‘ I was gutted because I had a superb time at Chelsea . |
| 4 | I 'ad a long stint wiv Galloway an' I was gutted when I got the push an' we 'ad ter get out o' the 'ouse . |
| 5 | ‘ I was gutted ’ he said . |
| 6 | I was gutted . |
| 7 | Winding down I gave a firm strike only to find that I had missed the take , I was gutted . |
| 8 | Last week I was gutted at the sale of Batts , but last night I was so happy that the scum failed . |
| 9 | I was gutted . |
| 10 | I was gutted . |
| 11 | I was nurturing this comforting thought when I turned into a large assembly room with numbered doors leading from it . |
| 12 | So I was nurturing this one in the greenhouse . |
| 13 | Hilary was depressed at your long absence ; I was cheering her up with photographs of your sporting exploits , which hang , as you know , in the master bedroom . |
| 14 | ‘ When Boro played Peterborough United in the Rumbelows League Cup I was cheering on the lads . |
| 15 | I knew that when at last I was demobilised from the Waaf I would have to return to my peacetime occupation as a secretary in London , for the simple reason that my employers had been paying me my full salary all the time I had been in the Forces , that is , making up the difference between my Waaf pay and what I would have been earning with them . |
| 16 | I was going mad : my mum was swearing at me , I was swearing at her ; finally I just lost my temper and said . |
| 17 | ‘ By the end of the last act I was swearing that this was the most marvellous Coriolanus in every conceivable way that I should ever hope to see , ’ wrote T. C. Worsley in the Financial Times . |
| 18 | I was trundling out the obvious . ’ |
| 19 | If I was traced , he would certainly remember me … . |
| 20 | By this time David had started up the Arts Lab and asked me if I would teach street theatre and improvisation there , so I was destined to go to Beckenham . ’ |
| 21 | Inevitably I was destined to become a zoologist in later life . |
| 22 | Just as I had been told repeatedly that I was destined to ‘ do well ’ , so then I was being told that I was destined to be ‘ stout ’ . |
| 23 | Just as I had been told repeatedly that I was destined to ‘ do well ’ , so then I was being told that I was destined to be ‘ stout ’ . |
| 24 | I was destined for great things — Oxford or Cambridge , a string of letters after my name , a successful academic career , and would no doubt end up being the first woman Prime Minister . |
| 25 | " Young as I was " , he wrote later , " I had a feeling that I was destined to work for big changes and improvements in the lives of men of the sea " . |
| 26 | Assuming that I 'd been able to drag the dinghy in a fairly straight line — though I might have gone astray a bit when I was stumbling in the mud — Joanna should be lying more or less straight ahead , and a good deal nearer than when I 'd left , for it was near high water then , and now it was about the last of the ebb . |
| 27 | I was pretending to be another man , but losing my own heart . |
| 28 | She does n't use the top one it 's jammed with paint and I loosened the saddle on the other when I was pretending to have a piss . |
| 29 | He stopped working , had a look round to see if anyone was watching — I was pretending not to look at him — and then he held his head . |
| 30 | I was pretending |