Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [conj] i [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You were cold and I had to get you warm . |
| 2 | These notes were invaluable when I came to write up the results of the study . |
| 3 | It was only because they were short-handed that I agreed to help out and … ’ |
| 4 | Because I had some personal problems at the start and the two girls were small when I come working |
| 5 | Earlier I said that on the whole our food was not bad : salads , fruits and nuts were plentiful but I had taken on my parent 's tastes . |
| 6 | My grades were excellent and I had had hands-on work experience with marketing agencies in the West End . |
| 7 | I was sleeping with my boyfriend , and after a few months I found I was pregnant and I had to stop going there . |
| 8 | I was right when I said having you here would do more for me than all the medicines in the world . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Sounds as though I was right when I decided to poke into the activities of INCUBUS — and Hauser … ’ |
| 10 | The road was wet and I kept telling him to go slower . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ My father was German and I wanted to go out there to rebuild my life , ’ he said . |
| 12 | As for Edward — it was clear that I 'd stumbled on to sensitive ground . |
| 13 | It was here when it started and the ward was empty and I 've watched it fill up , and now I 'm watching it empty again . |
| 14 | The truth is I had nothing at all in the bottle — it was empty because I 'd forgotten to get new supplies . |
| 15 | So a friend was embarrassed when I wanted to examine every object his family had made : the weathered pitchforks crafted from branching joints of trees ; strong rope twisted from straw ; bundles of sesame-seed stalks used as firewood after the seeds had been eaten ; hand-woven winnowing baskets , and heavy clay pots for keeping water cool in hot summers . |
| 16 | When the bus pulled to a halt and I got off I was relieved because I had finished school and I had the weekend ahead of me so I could enjoy myself . |
| 17 | I no longer need to work and she was delighted when I offered to care for the baby during the week . |
| 18 | I was lucky because I had turned my back on illusion , pursuing instead common-sense reality . |
| 19 | Once , when she was ill and I had to show the doctor in to see her , he was rather disconcerted to see the bedclothes on either side of Mrs Field appear to rise of their own accord — and four dogs emerged ! |
| 20 | It was fine because I 'd moved it , luckily , I 'd |
| 21 | No he said , and I went over and I picked him up anyway , and sat him on , I sat him on my knee and I said we 'll just do some rhymes and I could feel him sort of going mm , mm , mm , like they do all pathetic and whiny , anyway Phyllis arrived and afterwards it was , by then he had calmed down and he was fine and I said wan na read the story now cos he missed it of course when he decided he could n't do without his car , so I said next week perhaps come without your car , I think I 'd won him over by the end but , it was a bit hairy . |
| 22 | Given that they had the ‘ weather works ’ that day in the shape of sleet , hail , wind and rain , whilst simultaneously a view of quite a lot of snow on Vesuvius , I was glad that I had stayed at home with a good book . |
| 23 | I was glad that I had learned to breath properly and relax . |
| 24 | It was incredible that I 'd ended up in her kitchen , too , because she was the perfect person for me to cry on — and she , knowing me from way back when , was a phenomenal comfort to me , explaining so much I did n't know about the Jewish way of death , about the absence of hell , about the soul . |
| 25 | When I went back to the college everybody was thrilled that I 'd had a chance to meet the queen . " |
| 26 | And it got , in the end , actually , if I was , if I had to do something that was urgent or I had to go somewhere I used to have to say to her something like , you know , erm oh I better get on , I got a lot to do this morning , or I 'm goi I 've to be shopping and be back in time to cook Jim 's dinner or something like that cos he 's starting , oh I 've got ta have his dinner ready at twelve before he goes to work and if I really was pushed otherwise she would have come in every day . |
| 27 | He was unconscious and I tried to wake him up but I could n't . |
| 28 | This state of affairs has complicated my present task , since what was current when I began thinking about this book a few years ago , and , indeed , when working on earlier drafts of it , is now ceasing to be so . |
| 29 | I assured her that I would definitely not change my mind and that I was sure that I wanted to do it . |
| 30 | ‘ I was tired and I had to leave at approximately five — in about two hours . |