Example sentences of "[conj] i [was/were] [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that I was where I was might be highly unlikely ; that did not make his being there any more likely . |
| 2 | As long as my father was alive I felt that I was not myself but his son , as I hope my son will feel for me — if I ever have a son , that is . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I mean ’ , said Stephen , ‘ that I was not myself as I am now , as I had to become . ’ |
| 4 | I suddenly realized that I was n't myself any more : I did n't give a damn whether he was wearing a tie or not . ’ |
| 5 | He had a set of photocopied notes , which implied that I was n't his first apprentice . |
| 6 | ‘ Of course , ’ she assured him cheerfully , but suddenly thought to ask , ‘ Did you tell your cousin that I was n't your friend — in the ‘ girlfriend ’ sense , I mean — by the way ? ’ |
| 7 | So I said no , so I 'd better get on with my cooking , so she said oh she said done it on pur colour co-ordinated , I 'm a bit more colour co-ordinated than that I was yesterday I had a |
| 8 | and about fifteen of the erm eight , eight , five troop chasing after me , it was like our sister troop yeah , we were , there was three troops in our squadron , eight , eight , five , eight , eight , six and eighty , eighty , seven and then there was three squadrons and a regiments , there was nine troops there , so like , if it , basically it was your troop and nobody else , but then it was your squadron and , and anybody else and then the few times that I , on regiment it was your regiment and nobody else , like , we could touch you cos your our regiment but if you try and touch us , you can get fucking hell , but it nearly always come down to the troops , and the thing is eight , eight , six , only had , the first year that I was there we 'd only had about thirty people , fourth year there had I opposed like fifty , sixty and seventy , second year we were there we had about forty- five opposed to like sixty , seventy , eighty , and the third year there we had about fifty opposed like fucking seventy , eighty and ninety in a , in a troop , so we were always well out numbered and we were by far the most outrageous |
| 9 | Have you forgotten that I was once their mother 's maid ? ’ |
| 10 | I know people imagined I was much older than I was when they saw the first film because some newspapers referred to me as ‘ the Old Lady of the Dales ’ . |
| 11 | I do n't think I am fully recovered , and today I am no taller or heavier than I was when I was released from hospital in 1983 . |
| 12 | I do n't think it would be possible to be busier than I was when I was permanent under-secretary . |
| 13 | He added : ‘ I am no less confident of my case today than I was when I was wrongfully dismissed as chief executive on May 14 . ’ |
| 14 | I find I leave these places even more frustrated than I was when I arrived . ’ |
| 15 | Wu and I were not us — not in any way . |
| 16 | And I was only one out the family of nine that volunteered to go and none of me brothers or none of them that was all keen on the sea , they did not seem to want to go . |
| 17 | ‘ Well , it was his money , was n't it , and I was only his niece . |
| 18 | he said to me it 's a bit late to go knocking on windows is n't it , and I was like I did n't say anything I just thought well |
| 19 | if you if you go and see this afternoon erm he would like to speak to you and I was like he should come and speak to me |
| 20 | So that was er that was how and I was in I was I was at Well I think I was about nineteen er eighteen or nineteen at the time you know . |
| 21 | And I was never one really to ask questions , I I dare n't ask questions , I used , people told me things , that was it . |
| 22 | So I must restate the question as ‘ What would my priorities be if I were now what the Minister of Health was then ? ’ |
| 23 | Durance said : ‘ I believed that if I were there I could control what she told you . ’ |
| 24 | If I was outside I would have got a lot better treatment . |
| 25 | I mean I it 's different if I was like you know if the summer holidays and we were like this erm thing like erm a magic show that was on quite late or something . |
| 26 | That 's why they picked you , if I was like if I was like you they would have done it to me . |
| 27 | If he is anything like I was when I played my first Masters ( of three ) in 1978 , this limited time will not have prevented him from dreaming of all possible scenarios , from an air shot on the first tee to outright victory by some 10 shots . |
| 28 | Her sins pursued her but I was not her judge . ’ |
| 29 | By the end of July , it had dried off down south , but I was n't there any more . |
| 30 | I was quite pretty , a neat enough lass , but I was n't anything special . ’ |