Example sentences of "[that] i was [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not suggesting that I was a ‘ truly creative intellect ’ — merely that I was denied the opportunity to find out whether I could achieve any such position , and this was an omission I felt very keenly . |
| 2 | Well a as soon as she gave me this erm protective thing to wear and and then told me that I was grown up and every . |
| 3 | Meanwhile the owner the person who lived a small terraced property , whose garden backs onto the fields tried to get the hounds several dozen hounds off these two dogs who were being savaged to death and he had a heart attack in the process , Chairman and was hospitalized for several weeks That Chairman is the effect of the hunt on one of my constituents whose job it is for me to defend the rights that I was elected here to defend the rights of my constituents , not to be harassed in this manner . |
| 4 | ‘ Look , Mr Burns , it so happens that I was blessed with a pretty good voice . |
| 5 | I tell him I am a writer and that I was robbed in Cuzco Airport and lost camera , films and all my writing , so I have come to a tranquil place to try to remember . |
| 6 | I suppose that I was influenced by the exploits of the great test pilots of the day , people like Peter Twiss , Neville Duke and John Derry , who were at the time just coming to grips with high-speed flight and what was called the ‘ sound-barrier ’ . |
| 7 | The real mystery that I was engaged in tended to crowd the fiction out . |
| 8 | People in the street , who knew that I was engaged in negotiations , would come up to me , grab me by my lapels and say , ‘ Get an agreement , we beg you . |
| 9 | Now you have shown me that I was wrong , that I was mistaken . |
| 10 | Pangs of conscience , and ache of loneliness apart , I found that I was stimulated by the challenge of finding my way about this great and beautiful city , and by having to communicate — to try to speak French quickly enough to make actual conversation possible . |
| 11 | I refused to have a mastectomy and I see now in terms of theory , that I was stagemanaged at various points on the production line , into trying to turn me into a well-behaved patient by traumatising me by saying ‘ If you do n't do what we tell you … ’ or ‘ You 're being very naughty ’ or ‘ You 're being hysterical ’ , or ‘ We have n't got time to deal with all these questions , we 'd never get round ’ , and so on . |
| 12 | The reply that I was given is as follows : ’ The external finance limit for BR next year will be £2,041 million . |
| 13 | er Mr talked about the figures , I 'm convinced that the figures that , that I was given still include Perzon House I 'm convinced that those figures were not , have not been taken out erm I do n't know who should audit the figures , perhaps the internal audit should audit the figures . |
| 14 | When I yeah when I was commercial manager for er one of the things that I was given the job to do was to sort out the company 's buying . |
| 15 | Er what is necessary for me to also convey to you is that the theme that I was given today was one of forgiveness . |
| 16 | Right , the trouble i the problem that we do have is a very big syllabus that I was given . |
| 17 | V.W. I 'm not quite the loony that I was seen to be six years ago , when I first came in the school . |
| 18 | Er , prior to that I was trained as an electrician . |
| 19 | Winning the title meant that I was selected for Great Britain to run against West Germany in Dortmund . |
| 20 | I had been preparing myself for as long as I can remember , preparing myself ( though I did not always realize it ) from the day that I was born , preparing myself , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , but always aware of the dangers of beginning too soon . |
| 21 | ‘ If anything can be concluded from this book , it is that I was born , ’ writes Sisson after touching on that event , which occurred 75 years ago in a building since occupied by the Bristol Rovers Supporters Club . |
| 22 | Anyway , rather than attributing it to my childhood , I prefer to believe that I was born into the world with greater or lesser faculties than other people and that I can take full responsibility for them . |
| 23 | Among many blessings , which I count from time to time , is the good fortune of being born in this age of progress ‘ in all directions ’ and the fact that I was born with an innate curiosity . |
| 24 | It did n't matter that I was born in Baldersdale , my father was n't . |
| 25 | The Hovis ad really is exactly the kind of place that I was born in . |
| 26 | ‘ I do n't know that I ever 'ad one , the orphanage never said I did , but they did say me birthday was December the second , and that I was born in 1889 . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Were n't you a little shocked to hear that I was born out of wedlock . ’ |
| 28 | When I told them that I was born in a similar bed and had become a doctor afterwards they were more convinced . |
| 29 | I 'm grateful that I was born when I was , rather than being a youngster today . |
| 30 | That I was born with a silver spoon in my mouth ? ’ |