Example sentences of "was [adv] [conj] i [vb past] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh , we 'd felt like this for years but we would n't acknowledge it , and then we started meeting casually and standing talking for ages , but it was only when I met him and he was so upset about the baby and — and other things . |
| 2 | He was exactly as I remembered him , that June night after our fishing . |
| 3 | But Mary was out so I gave him the letter and began to tell him about the trouble at home . |
| 4 | Not that I bore him any personal ill-will ; it was simply that I knew he could n't stay . |
| 5 | It was duly arranged that we should meet after work , and it was then that I gave him further details about my ‘ sponsored ’ trip to Paris and about my much more ambitious idea of a trip to Libya . |
| 6 | That was why when I told him about my LCC-subsidized visit to Paris , he insisted that I should pay calls on friends of his like Paul Valéry , Jacques Maritain and Charles du Bos ; and he set about providing me with letters of introduction . |