Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was gutted because I had a superb time at Chelsea . |
| 2 | He knows exactly what 's going on , so I was gutted when the manager signed Nigel Spackman to play alongside him . |
| 3 | I 'ad a long stint wiv Galloway an' I was gutted when I got the push an' we 'ad ter get out o' the 'ouse . |
| 4 | ‘ By the end of the last act I was swearing that this was the most marvellous Coriolanus in every conceivable way that I should ever hope to see , ’ wrote T. C. Worsley in the Financial Times . |
| 5 | They could only see Blefuscu 's warships coming closer , as I was swimming and my head was occasionally under the water . |
| 6 | ‘ Jock ’ Hilton Barber was not flying on this date , and saw what happened from the ground : ‘ I was swimming when a battle started overhead . |
| 7 | I was lucky , because instead of being on house assessment I was called and told I was going to be on the works party next day , only my second day at Styal . |
| 8 | And I was looking and they 'd got red , black in one window . |
| 9 | There was an old woman on sitting opposite me on the way home and she had two big I was looking and looking These are not real . |
| 10 | I understood its historical evolution , what I was looking for I think , and not an answer tonight , tomorrow may be a better day , was how does the area which you have defined , for example , now relate to journey to work patterns . |
| 11 | But not that I was looking or anything like that ! |
| 12 | ‘ At the worst , even when I was bound and blind and mad , I swear it never touched you or anything that was yours . |
| 13 | I was grabbed and my satchel torn from me . |
| 14 | I just knew I was inspired when I proposed you for this job here , that it would come back to me in some incredible way . |
| 15 | If not , it is their loss , for it is the catholicity of the education to which I was exposed that I have come most to value . |
| 16 | I was shouting and screaming for help and at the same time taking off my coat and wellingtons , preparing to jump in after her . |
| 17 | When Razor went down the first time I was shouting and jumping up and down , ’ she said . |
| 18 | All the time I was shouting and swearing at them . |
| 19 | I was tempted when examining these drawings to propose a hypothesis that some of these artists had been attracted to formalism and minimalism because of its supposed neutrality ; the absent author was , after all , without gender . |
| 20 | Men are portrayed as being powerless : CB LOLITA , 13 , HAD SEX ON THE SLIDE ( ‘ A girl of 13 had sex on a kiddies ' playground slide with a young man she contacted over CB radio , a court heard yesterday ’ ) ; Bedtime antics of a ‘ latter-day Lolita ’ ( ‘ A 13-year-old girl … described as a ‘ latter-day Lolita ’ went to bed with one man … and then swapped him for another in the same room ’ ) ; Girl , 15 , tempted her mother 's man ( ‘ She had made propositions to him three times which he resisted before succumbing ’ ) ; Sex-case man goes to jail ( Defence counsel claimed ‘ the initiative in the sexual relationship came from the girl ’ ) ; CABBlE 'S TEEN SEX SESSIONS ( ‘ Taxi driver … found the cheeky advances of a teenage Lolita hard to resist ’ ) ; CHOIRMASTER AND GIRL , 15 ( ‘ I was tempted and that 's all ’ ) ; Girl gave rapist sex lesson ( ‘ A 14-year-old girl put out a challenge to a convicted rapist … . |
| 21 | I was shivering and sweating at the same time . |
| 22 | I was rabbiting and rabbiting and rabbiting as we drank our tea . |
| 23 | Eventually I went along to the British Association of Psychotherapists , where I was assessed and asked if I wanted to see a male or a female therapist . |
| 24 | Once I was lost but now I 'm found |
| 25 | But er so when we came Mrs the sight reading of course I was lost because she used |
| 26 | ‘ I tried to hate you but deep down I knew I was lost and that , however many lovers you 'd previously had , I was going to be the last one . |
| 27 | I realized I was lost when the sky suddenly lightened and I came out into a broad clearing . |
| 28 | I was overtired and I could n't go off to sleep . |
| 29 | I saw where I was drifting and I was concerned about hitting the hangar but it was all right |
| 30 | I was sitting on the sofa , quietly crying ; I think I was wishing that Auschwitz looked better than it did , just now , with its windless heat and plagues of flies homing in on the marshes . |