Example sentences of "[adv prt] [conj] i [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Before you continue , Sir John , ’ Fitzormonde spoke up , ‘ and you start speculating on where I was , all I can say is that I was in my own chamber but no one saw me there . ’ |
| 2 | I suppose I could have joined in except I was on the second tier of the other stand . |
| 3 | and a , coming out of that there were some cars parked , some other cars trying to drive through , I was coming out trying to turn right , there was another car waiting to turn left , and he could n't come in cos I was coming out . |
| 4 | With the strain of listening for the slightest sound a desperate tiredness had set in and I was having to force myself to stay awake . |
| 5 | For the last nine , though , the putts just would n't go in and I was beginning to get worried . |
| 6 | The Jessop Hospital for Women sucked me in and I was tucked into a dimmed ward containing three others — two delivered , one about to , by the sound of things . |
| 7 | Dad came in and I was struck by how handsome he seemed with his moustache freshly waxed and his hair brushed flat and parted in the middle . |
| 8 | One day an elderly lady with a hearing aid came in and I was doing her hair , chatting away and making her laugh , and I cut right through the wire ! |
| 9 | But I I wrote in and I was asked to see Mr . |
| 10 | My friends said she 's trouble and the last thing I should have done was let her move in and I was a bloody fool not to believe them . |
| 11 | One night , there was one night here about er half nine I was really tired but , with them being out I was n't , you know , I like to go to bed when they come in and I was so tired when they come in when I got up |
| 12 | Well I said , I was born in and I was also born in Terrace . |
| 13 | Disappointment followed , the lurid projector of mental pictures shut down and I was left feeling I ought to have known better . |
| 14 | ‘ No , my health broke down and I was ordered to take a long holiday in the South of France or Italy . ’ |
| 15 | They made big promises but , in the end , they let me down and I was forced to show mainly younger artists , which is always interesting but financially disastrous . |
| 16 | about ten past one , well I had indigestion all night and I could feel it , and we 'd had our tea and I thought oh I do n't know , but I went to bed feeling alright and suddenly I woke up I thought oh my god I 'm gon na be sick , I come running down stairs , but you know I was , I was sick but I know I had n't finished and I 'd sat down and I was sick three times . |
| 17 | I mean , Mike was like , you gon na stay down and I was , I have n't seen anybody at college all week , so I think I 'd better go back , actually . |
| 18 | he says , cos me boyfriend were supposed to be coming down and I were telling our Michael he says , oh , he 's black . |
| 19 | I ai n't had a fit or nothing — I was just lying down cos I was tired . |
| 20 | Right , only got me down cos I was tired , I told you . |
| 21 | I would write it down if I were you , yes , right and things like a breach delivery , what 's a breach delivery ? |
| 22 | ‘ As for looking a fool , I would n't play this down if I were you . |
| 23 | I should stay lying down if I were you . |
| 24 | K. R. At Garston , there was a toilet on the main road and when we were on nights , and there was one officer walking along and I was on the other side — we dare n't cross the road . |
| 25 | She was so kind when I was orphaned , she always made sure I was fed by organizing a rota of other Girls ' mothers who took me in until I was fourteen ; otherwise I would have ended up in an orphanage . |
| 26 | He got one a week later — the prefab we lived in until I was eleven . |
| 27 | After a while I stopped telling myself I was n't going to be sick , and — resigned to the fact that I was going to have to throw up at some point — kept telling myself instead that I 'd manage to hold it in until I was back in the flat , and so do it in private , rather than into the gutter in front of people . |
| 28 | And then I missed my chance and then I had only had the little primary school in until I was fourteen . |
| 29 | I should have been allowed in if I was five minutes late . |
| 30 | That same agent blew up the room I had been in because I was getting too close . |