Example sentences of "i was " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did and I was absolutely amazed at how much stuff I sold and the kind of things people bought . |
| 2 | ‘ I was impressed by the care given to our clients in London and elsewhere , ’ explained Peter , ‘ and the lengths to which ACET staff go to try and meet the needs of clients . |
| 3 | TWO AND A HALF years ago I was diagnosed as being HIV positive . |
| 4 | I was a very happy gay man . |
| 5 | I was particularly impressed by the way you managed to organise all the available services so efficiently — just at the time when we were beginning to wonder how we 'd manage . ’ |
| 6 | If challenged to justify why blacks are struck from the jury , prosecutors offer the most ridiculous reasons — ‘ he looked dumb ’ , ‘ he lived in the same part of town as the defendant ’ ( most blacks live in the same part of town ) , ‘ he was a mason and I was worried about masonic links ’ ( the prospective juror was a stone mason by profession ) . |
| 7 | He recalls , ‘ When I was sentenced I thought I 'd be killed straight away . |
| 8 | I remember feeling really happy when I was told I had at least six or seven years to live . |
| 9 | Participating as a group delegate and individual member in the vigorous AGM at Liverpool , I was surprised to see a religious service on the printed agenda , with the order of service available at the official information counter . |
| 10 | I was delighted to see you had chosen a young man and woman with Down 's Syndrome to model shirts in the Spring 1991 catalogue . |
| 11 | I was disgusted in the beginning with their subjects . |
| 12 | Perhaps I was n't on form the day I painted it . |
| 13 | ‘ Suddenly I was confronted by a huge and altogether indescribable blue figure wearing a red hat . |
| 14 | I was still overwhelmed by the painting , but I was now aware that I was overwhelmed , and this , somehow , seemed to establish a distance between this emotion and me . ’ |
| 15 | I was still overwhelmed by the painting , but I was now aware that I was overwhelmed , and this , somehow , seemed to establish a distance between this emotion and me . ’ |
| 16 | I was still overwhelmed by the painting , but I was now aware that I was overwhelmed , and this , somehow , seemed to establish a distance between this emotion and me . ’ |
| 17 | I was curious to see what shrift she would receive in Naipaul 's novel : the work of a man who has been spoken of by an old friend , the novelist Paul Theroux , as having in earlier times been ‘ merciless , solitary , and ( one of his favourite words ) unassailable ’ . |
| 18 | I was without the religious sense of my family . |
| 19 | He finds himself ‘ considering the idea of flight ’ , and the idea of defeat : ‘ 1 suppose that , thinking of my own harassment and Raymond 's defeat , I had begun to consider Yvette a defeated person as well , trapped in the town , as sick of herself and the wasting asset of her body as I was sick of myself and my anxieties . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Tho ’ I was young Thomas Chatterton to those I met , I was a very Proteus to those who read my Works ' : Chatterton 's story is mostly told by himself , and with a felicity of cadence and of reference which can be caught in the sentence I have just quoted . |
| 21 | ‘ Tho ’ I was young Thomas Chatterton to those I met , I was a very Proteus to those who read my Works ' : Chatterton 's story is mostly told by himself , and with a felicity of cadence and of reference which can be caught in the sentence I have just quoted . |
| 22 | ‘ I was able to soar up , to fly , I could rock in the air like that balloon , I could fly away with it , choose any of the four points of the compass , but I remained where I was , I stopped above this small , painful , blessed piece of earth . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I was able to soar up , to fly , I could rock in the air like that balloon , I could fly away with it , choose any of the four points of the compass , but I remained where I was , I stopped above this small , painful , blessed piece of earth . ’ |
| 24 | They could not be let into it , but there was a duty to entertain them , and , as I was told , not to stare . |
| 25 | A foot of honour better than I was |
| 26 | A foot of honour better than I was , |
| 27 | I do n't know , I was just sitting on the grass one day , down by the river . |
| 28 | And I was scouting around vaguely aware that , in fact , I 'd actually located it . |
| 29 | I was in there last night trying to get some ideas for Volunteers Day . |
| 30 | I was furious , I was out of my mind . |