Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [vb pp] [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 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ At the worst , even when I was bound and blind and mad , I swear it never touched you or anything that was yours . |
| 6 | I was grabbed and my satchel torn from me . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 … . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Once I was lost but now I 'm found |
| 13 | But er so when we came Mrs the sight reading of course I was lost because she used |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | I realized I was lost when the sky suddenly lightened and I came out into a broad clearing . |
| 16 | I was overtired and I could n't go off to sleep . |
| 17 | I was irritated that he could imagine I would want to go back to him . |
| 18 | ‘ I was irritated because all I got from him was yes-and-no answers . |
| 19 | , but erm , and I notice that quite often the shelves would be half empty , came here , I would stop on the way back from the school the bank and the butcher 's and the paper shop over the road I could come in quarter to nine and I 'm , you know , I , I was done and I said to my Arnold they 're not going to sell much unless they put some money into filling the shelves surely Spa will back them , and he said I keep on telling them that I keep on saying to them if you do n't put the goods there on display people are going to go over the road to Lipton 's and and |
| 20 | Last night Mr Roseberry said : ‘ I was hit as I tried to get into the pub . |
| 21 | Again , I was moved that he should have perceived how miserable an exile to the Persian Gulf would have been . |
| 22 | From outside it looked like a faded bell but within was a brilliant and sumptuous chamber of fiery gold adorned with most exquisite tapestry , and it moved me as much as I was moved when I saw the dome of the Blue Mosque at Isfahan , the most beautiful building I have ever seen . |
| 23 | It was the first time I had heard him play great music , and I was moved as I had been by the Bonnards ; moved in a different way , but still moved . |
| 24 | I was withdrawn and sullen when he bade me farewell . |
| 25 | I was coddled and cosseted , pampered and petted and never shouted at . |
| 26 | It felt really good to see her again , and I was touched that , after all these years , she had remembered me . |
| 27 | I hardly remember what Mrs Girdlestone looked like , other than that she was plump and elderly , and gave an impression of being prepared for battle ; but I was touched when I saw the tea that had been laid out ready for me , imagining the two ladies conferring about the slices of bought ham , the thin bread-and-butter , and the bought cake . |
| 28 | I was touched when my dad told me that every night he stood on the back doorstep and said goodnight to John . |
| 29 | TWO AND A HALF years ago I was diagnosed as being HIV positive . |
| 30 | I was diagnosed as being asthmatic at the age of 48 , although on reflection I suspect that I had probably suffered mild intermittent symptoms in childhood . |