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

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1 I was nobody .
2 There has always been a vigorous tradition of English studies in adult education , and indeed it was through such classes that I was myself able to become a mature student in the early 1950s .
3 Perhaps I take a special pleasure in Cold Comfort Farm from the fact that I was myself brought up in a rural setting , surrounded by wild-eyed manic depressives of the Starkadder school , while I was reading the works of D.H.Lawrence and F.R.Leavis , whose loam-laden versions of country life did n't quite chime with mine .
4 The writing over the next few months of very many letters to these poor people who were as anguished as I was myself , afforded some distraction and mitigated my feelings of isolation .
5 Just as I was myself going to be killed , the village people managed to save me and take me up to the mountain , but I had lost too much blood and died anyway .
6 By the time I was myself a prefect , the penny had dropped .
7 I was myself interested in this concept but found that the word was being used by my colleagues in all sorts of different ways .
8 An unusual example of this occurred when I was myself collecting historical data about a small town during the course of a local social survey .
9 ‘ I feel it particularly strongly because , as a Hungarian Jew , I was myself a potential victim of the Holocaust .
10 ‘ I feel it particularly strongly because , as a Hungarian Jew , I was myself a potential victim of the Holocaust .
11 No matter what anyone else thought or said , I was beautiful : I was myself .
12 When I was myself again , Silver was standing with his crutch under his arm , cleaning the blood from his knife with some grass .
13 I said without thinking , ‘ I wonder what you were all like when you were young ? ’ , realising as I spoke how young I was myself as four people in early middle age turned to regard me with varying degrees of indignation and amusement .
14 She had been as insignificant in appearance as all the other girls I had seen him with : as insignificant as I was myself .
15 My mother was , I think , almost as ignorant on the subject as I was myself , having lived only in the nutshell of the English enclave , and she was silent .
16 When I was myself again , I locked the door that led from the street to my laboratory .
17 As late as 1942 I was myself assured most positively , by an otherwise sane Englishman , that , in an inaccessible valley just the other side of a visible range of mountains , he himself had encountered men with tails .
18 My Lords , I I 'm like others of Your Lordships , I was myself very greatly influenced er in my opinion of this Bill by the remarks made by no fewer than three er former Home Secretaries , my Noble Friend Lord , my Noble Friend Lord a and the Noble Lord , Lord of Cardiff .
19 I said I was myself but , but what get 's me is people stand there chat , I mean your walking behind them and then all of a sudden there just stop dead , and you must be carry on walking oh god there 's about twenty of them there blocking the fucking isle
20 Fortunately I was myself very interested in handwriting and had taught it .
21 I feel bitter that while I was out there I was somebody but I 've come back as a third class citizen .
22 I also had a company pension but I was what , in the pensions trade , is called an ‘ early leaver ’ .
23 But I ruined my own life — and more importantly I ruined Ashi 's too — because I refused to admit that I was what I was . ’
24 I was what I wanted to be : a girl .
25 I was what I felt unconsciously I had never had a chance to be : a little girl .
26 They keep questioning me , always asking where I was what I did why I did it , did all of them where I was who I was with who am I trying to kid why do n't I just admit I did it well if I did n't do all these things , who did ?
27 I was What times daddy coming home ?
28 why , I was what they call it ?
29 I mean I was what I 've mentioned it like to someone in my class .
30 If only I was they could lock me up somewhere quiet and take care of me .
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