Example sentences of "i [was/were] [adj] [conj] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew it would be a race back to Stuart Street and I was pleased that it ended in an honourable draw . |
| 2 | well , I was disappointed when it showed the league table they were n't even in the top six , but they 're seventh , huh but there 's two , two teams above them have played one more game than them , but then |
| 3 | When I published this group , with an enormous amount of help from Philip Corder ( Webster , 1947 ) , I was confident that it fell well into the fourth century . |
| 4 | I never doubted what I was feeling , but I was shocked when it did n't fade over the years , and I went through phases of trying to convince myself that it was some sort of obsession , a perverse desire for the one woman I believed I could never have — or not in the way I wanted you , loving me as well as wanting me . ’ |
| 5 | In reflecting on the day , after Joy and Alan had gone home , I was surprised that it had seemed so unfrightening . |
| 6 | I was surprised as it looked so very old . |
| 7 | I was happy and it showed in my skating . |
| 8 | ‘ Of course I was terrified when it happened , ’ she recalls , ‘ but I 'm not the sort to be beaten . |
| 9 | They all knew each other and was laughing and kidding around and I was scared cos it smelt so bad and was so big and bright and I did n't know where I was . |
| 10 | So , having consistently been right about why and how the Tories would win , I was wrong when it came to the point . |
| 11 | Rory Scott says roguishly : ‘ She was very sexually attractive and the relationship was not a platonic one as far as I was concerned but it remained that way . |
| 12 | I realized I was hungry and it did n't matter . |