Example sentences of "[adj] i was [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No that 's right I was just roughly trying to work out |
| 2 | But when on first hearing of this arrangement I tried to inform Miss Kenton of it , she once again refused to converse with me , and in order to accomplish matters as quickly as possible I was actually obliged to write a note and put it under the door of her parlour . |
| 3 | Yeah sorry I was also tal we were talking about our own membership |
| 4 | I 'm sorry I was so tiresomely upset just now , it 's just that I want to protect you . ’ |
| 5 | Sorry I was so quiet but I did n't know who I liked best . |
| 6 | I 'm sorry I was so late . |
| 7 | I 'm sorry I was late getting but I got held up by another lesson . |
| 8 | ‘ After that I was just lying down in a hospital bed . ’ |
| 9 | And I went in there , and asked for their tailoring department and er er I found out after that I was just dead lucky , one of their trouser finishers was going to er leave , she was getting married , and she was leaving and erm although you did n't have to leave then , she she she sort of had got to leave , so er I just fell lucky , there . |
| 10 | Oh is that I was just talking to man . |
| 11 | But after that I was always seeing her , all over the place . |
| 12 | When I was pregnant I was really |
| 13 | I think this is because for the last five months I was pregnant I was so withdrawn and would n't talk to anybody — would n't go out of the house , I used to sit upstairs or here hoping she would n't kick too hard and my dad would n't see anything . |
| 14 | Well do you know I never knew this I was recently hit by a car and , although not seriously hurt , I did go to casualty to have some cuts cleaned and an X-ray taken to check I had n't broken my ankle . |
| 15 | In this I was happily to be proved wrong , but who could have known that at the time ? |
| 16 | At this I was more frightened than ever . |
| 17 | I 've seen how wrong I was before . |
| 18 | I was er twelve or thirteen years old I was there . |
| 19 | I 'm afraid I was more concerned about Celia — the baby 's heart rate had become very erratic . ’ |
| 20 | Initially , this looked promising , but on turning the system up to normal stage volume I 'm afraid I was somewhat disappointed . |
| 21 | ‘ My face was so painful I was nearly in tears |
| 22 | ‘ It was so painful I was actually in tears , ’ she recalls . |
| 23 | I was very shaken I was only sitting on the other side of the wall . |
| 24 | ‘ I can remember getting walloped 6–1 by AC Milan when I was with West Ham , ’ he added , ‘ and I was so shaken I was too frightened to look at people for weeks . |
| 25 | so yes yesterday I was delighted I was only nine stone thirteen , so |
| 26 | ‘ It was very natural , and I 'm glad I was here . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ These people were glad I was there , ’ North would say of his time in Vietnam , in sharp contradistinction to the way most Americans seemed to feel about it . |
| 28 | I 'm so glad I was there . |
| 29 | When I was younger I was often upset by criticism and innuendo but I learnt that if you become involved with this kind of thing it will end up by gnawing you away . |
| 30 | Despite extensive searching I was never able to find them again . |