Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] [pron] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I saw buildings coming up , I drove the Felder off the track behind an outcrop of rock , where I hoped it was both safe and unobtrusive for the night . |
| 2 | Or I thought it was . |
| 3 | ‘ He was still nice , or I thought he was . |
| 4 | Did they di do you think they I was going to say enjoy there but I do I do n't think that 'd be the right word , but d did they like or did they prefer to work piece work or was it something that they loathed or I mean there was more money to be made at it was n't there ? |
| 5 | The main reason , main thing is presuming that there must have been refreshments for all these people , probably might have been just a buffet or cup of coffee , or I expect there was probably a lunch laid on , I want to know who footed the bill for the lunch ? |
| 6 | I , I can remember once I , I think it was Hill , or I think it was Estate , it was quite a new estate in those , in those days when I , when I was there . |
| 7 | She was strangled all right , or I suppose she was . |
| 8 | It did n't seem too distressed by life in the aviary with the other birds , although I imagine it was all a bit of a come-down for this once proud and merciless hunter of the skies . |
| 9 | ‘ They are out of season and very expensive , but Alain bought them in Paris this morning , although I imagine it was one of his long-suffering secretaries who was dispatched to buy them . ’ |
| 10 | But although I said I was reasonably Spartan , this bare Nissen hut and my little windy bivouac pall a bit at times . |
| 11 | As Heather was not a boy this latter did not really concern us , although I thought I was sure Blessed St John wept with the little one over the circumcision he had , of course , had himself . |
| 12 | Platt , who has yet to make his Italian League debut for Juventus , said : ‘ My nose has been X-rayed and confirmed as broken , although I thought I was fit enough to play today . |
| 13 | He was our biggest danger in the end , although I thought it was going to be Tom 's four-ball partner Bert Yancey who might prove the biggest threat . |
| 14 | I remember when I married him but I do n't remember when I met him , although I know it was just ten days between the two occasions . |
| 15 | They say , ‘ Thank you for playing the hymn , you did n't mention my name so although I know you were n't playing it just for me , I felt as if you were ’ . |
| 16 | Although I knew it was badly sprained I did not feel it was broken . |
| 17 | Although I knew it was n't my fault , I always felt frustrated because I could n't do anything to help . |
| 18 | I answered , although I knew it was n't . |
| 19 | That was my excuse to myself , although I knew it was wrong of me to leave only two unwounded men to guard the stockade . |
| 20 | Joseph told me to fetch the doctor , so I ran to the village , although I knew it was too late . |
| 21 | I always stopped to look at it , although I knew it was much too expensive . |
| 22 | We were up on the top floor and Ralph Horton came up to listen to us and was impressed , although I think he was more impressed with David than us . |
| 23 | ‘ Although I suppose it was against the English , ’ she observed with a mournful little sigh . |
| 24 | As Holy Communion was by tradition the first food and drink of the day , the tea left a feeling of guilt for I was told never to tell anyone although I expect it was a common practice amongst lady communicants . |
| 25 | On the far side of the pond was the old ford and Mum used to tell us that this was the route to the city taken by carts before the building of the old Harnham Bridge in the fourteenth century , although I expect it was used right up to the advent of the motor car . |
| 26 | And although I believe he was referring to a certain kind of abstract thinking — the kind that reduced the English Hegelian tradition to a lyrical hymn to the Absolute , and of which his own thesis on Bradley of 1916 came very near to imitating ( which is why he declared , on its publication in 1963 , that he did not pretend to understand it ) , he possessed an outstanding capacity for reasoned argument . |
| 27 | ‘ I knew that Alan liked the odd drink but it was n't until we were living together that I realised her was more or less an alcoholic , and violent with it . ’ |
| 28 | It was n't until I underwent hypnosis that I realised I was still a Catholic . |
| 29 | It was n't until half an hour later that I realised I was on C1 . |
| 30 | But as I left my car and started to go into the house it was then that I realised I was falling under the spell of this Englishwoman who had been such a delightful and charming companion that day . ’ |