Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] i [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of the day though , the championship I think , tells you who is the best team of any one year and erm that 's the professional 's choice I think , if you said at the start of the year which = trophy we 'd like to win , we would have said the championship , erm we were top I think after two games and we fell away a bit since but erm the time to be tops after twenty two , so lets hope we can get up there . |
| 2 | She helped me as well and when I saw you were ill I did for you what she would have wanted me to do . ’ |
| 3 | Shrugs were all I received from the Tourist Information Centre on the harbour . |
| 4 | Until I was eight I lived in the village of Feltwell in Norfolk where there was a joint RAF and USAF base . |
| 5 | My Lords , because I consider that the decision of the visitor was right I concur in the order proposed by your Lordships that this appeal should be dismissed . |
| 6 | When I was eleven I moved to secondary school , Henry Compton in Fulham . |
| 7 | When I was forty I suffered from my very first migraine , I was in bed for five days with it . |
| 8 | The other thing that was interesting I learnt at dinner on Thursday night is , under the government 's legislation within so many years , nineteen ninety four I think , they 've got to ha have reduced their market share from the original hundred percent to sixty percent as new firms come in to sell gas |
| 9 | When I was 12 I tunnelled into the side of the local canal and inserted a glass panel . |
| 10 | I thought my boyfriend would make sure that he knew what he was doing , " cos at that time I did n't know what I was letting myself in for and also because he was nineteen I said to myself that he was more responsible . |
| 11 | I said to her as how seeing I 'm sixty one christmas I said I I ca n't , I thought it was stupid I said for erm for them to mess around like that . |
| 12 | But er when I as soon as I was fourteen I walked to and started working next day . |
| 13 | What did I tell you , I 'd have finished off , bottle washing then then I got this when I was fourteen I walked to and got there . |
| 14 | But that was all I mean after that there was no vandalism . |
| 15 | That was all I had in mind , but I ended up , five minutes later , knowing something the police and the probation service did n't know . |
| 16 | A belated attempt at abdomen-straining brought it swimming back into fuzzy focus , but that dial was all I saw during the remainder of an interminable fast-jet loop . |
| 17 | Well , that was all I came for . |
| 18 | I agreed to help you out tonight , but that was all I agreed to . |
| 19 | But there was various I think about sa sa sa sa sa , eight or nineteen upwards to about thirty odd . |
| 20 | The navigator had survived with head injuries but the third crew member was O.K. I signalled to Athens asking them to designate the nearest airfield where I could pick up Brown and White in a Maryland . |
| 21 | It was stunned I suppose from its ordeal . |
| 22 | When I was eighteen I came in contact with the Catholic Crusade which was a rather left wing Christian Socialist Organization and I found that their attitude to problems contained the answers for which I had been searching for a good many years tell me when you want me to raise something . |
| 23 | When I was young I had on loan a pony who was atrocious in traffic . |
| 24 | There was a long pause , before he answered obliquely , ‘ When I was young I fell in love . |
| 25 | ‘ When I was young I dreamed of being like her . |
| 26 | She does everything right ; when I was young I helped with my small sister — she was born when I was fourteen — and I helped with the housework of course . |