Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [vb past] [pron] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , although it was something to tell the others at school , secretly I thought he was important enough already . |
| 2 | This time she more or less flew straight to me , and I felt confident enough to fly her another three or four times , each one successfully , although eventually I sensed she was losing interest , fretfully tearing at her jesses and gazing round . |
| 3 | He says I 'm coming New Year 's Day , alright , he went down and he shut it , cos I went in the shop and I says er hang on I thought you was open New Year 's Day ? |
| 4 | Suddenly I realised I was drunk and alone . |
| 5 | On the street again , suddenly I felt I was in the middle of a farce — ‘ POLICE SEARCH FOR THE BIG BANANA IS ON — and the discovery that actually I did have my cheque numbers in my moneybelt and that it was the photocopies that had been stolen made me almost light-headed . |
| 6 | Suddenly I felt I was talking to my mum . |
| 7 | I had felt at the instant the idea suggested itself to me the first glimmer of positive thought : suddenly I knew I was not going to sink . |
| 8 | I felt such a hypocrite in church , knowing that He knew about me , knowing that no matter how much I washed I was still unclean , unfit to stand in His house . |
| 9 | I , I do n't know what deciding though , I says , funny enough I said there were one just like this at Millaires and I did n't qualify where it was , but it he latched on to it and it 's er a posh place , you know , Millaires |
| 10 | Looking down I saw they were in a puddle of water that had n't been there at the start and seemed to be oozing out of the ground . |
| 11 | So I got out the car and I went over and I , turned it down , as it were turning down I saw it was n't pouring just out the tap , it was also pouring from the |
| 12 | When I calmed down I realized I was defending an organization I refused to be in , though I had nothing good to say for the one I 'd left it for . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ After I 'd cooled down I knew I was being irrational . ’ |
| 15 | I believed at the time that I more or less grasped the metaphorical implications of this , but after I had put the phone down I found I was not as clear as I should have hoped to be about exactly what was required of me in concrete practical terms . |
| 16 | and er perhaps I thought it was infected and she said yeah animals , he 's got , I mean we 've caught it early , so |
| 17 | I thought … perhaps I thought she was dead . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Apparently someone said there was plaster off the wall . |
| 19 | I seen one woman and she had a police uniform on , so obviously I knew it was the police . |
| 20 | Personally I thought she was hostile and chippy . |
| 21 | Personally I thought it was a load of fucking cobblers and yet that was the swamp from which punk rock emerged . |
| 22 | Personally I thought it was just to draw attention to herself . ’ |
| 23 | So I said it was in Penrhos oh it 's a nice place , , I know when she told me and she said |
| 24 | Tony Curtis was standing next to me so I said I was there to try and collect money from Mr Curtis . |
| 25 | So I said I was waiting for my sister , Mrs Webb . |
| 26 | So I said I was tired of waiting for the money for my things and she can collect it from the students and have it when it came . |
| 27 | So I said you were getting on okay |
| 28 | So I thought they were all part of a jokey game . |
| 29 | ‘ I have n't had my hair cut for about a year and neither has Meera so I thought it was time for a change . ’ |
| 30 | So I thought it was nice that we in the Women 's Guild declared Women 's Lib this year and held our own . |