Example sentences of "that i was [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The others were pretty and popular , I was trying desperately to fit in with them , but it was dreadful to have something that I was proud of , and happy with — my body — made fun of in that way , by my friends . |
| 2 | I had beaten so many of my idols that I hope it does n't sound too arrogant to say that I was proud of my performance . |
| 3 | I do not know whether this was associated with the fact that no one ever sought a tea meeting with me and that I was relieved of the obligation of conducting a rather spurious theological discussion on the basis of almost total ignorance . |
| 4 | I was going to say that I was grateful to the hon. Member for Oldham , West ( Mr. Meacher ) for raising this issue , because I agree with him that it needs to be properly debated on the Floor of the House . |
| 5 | Someone lifted me up on to a high chair , so that I was close to his nose . |
| 6 | I simply did not want to play and confess that I was close to giving up completely . |
| 7 | ‘ It did n't matter that I was bored without you ? ’ |
| 8 | As I retreated , putting one foot down in front of the other on the stony path , I reflected that I was tired of this place , that it had the dry consistency of chaff . |
| 9 | By that time , I had listened to so many commercials , and studied their language in such detail , that I was tired of the whole subject . |
| 10 | It seemed that I was asleep for just a few minutes when I was awakened by some noisy bastard shouting into the trench . |
| 11 | I did feel I had to live up to certain expectations , but even more than I wanted , for myself , to do the best work that I was capable of . ’ |
| 12 | I had already achieved something ; I had already proved to myself that I was capable of independent achievement . |
| 13 | Last season 's total of 38 seemed like a hard act to follow , but McCoist admitted : ‘ I always knew that I was capable of scoring even more , but I did n't want to shout too loudly about it . |
| 14 | Well i i I always say that er it always comes a surprise that I was good at anything . |
| 15 | I suppose it 's remotely possible Clare was romantically involved with Jack Cornelius , although it does n't say much for my powers of observation that I was unaware of it , but it 's equally possible Rex Cunningham has simply jumped to the wrong conclusion : he was ever one to do that . |
| 16 | ‘ I had ridden Ile de Bourbon for trainer Fulke Johnson Houghton in all of his home gallops and also won on the colt in the King Edward VII stakes at Royal Ascot but when Piggott asked me had the horse made any improvement from then and before the big King George race I had to tell him that I was unaware of it just in case he might want to take over . |
| 17 | Yeah , and we explained and said that I was pregnant at the time and we said about the policeman , oh no trouble ! |
| 18 | It was a miracle that I was alive at all . |
| 19 | She and Mother were the best of friends , and she knew that I was daft over dollies and wanted one so badly . |
| 20 | ‘ It might well have been true that I was guilty of wasting the talent that I have ’ |
| 21 | ‘ It might well have been true , I suppose , that I was guilty of wasting the talent that I have , ’ says the 24-year-old from Prague . |
| 22 | How can you now suddenly decide that this is the truth when you were so convinced before that I was guilty of every form of unscrupulous dealing possible ? ’ |
| 23 | That was , that was the only thing I , I thought well if I get off to the wrong start , you 're off on the wrong start completely so yes I , I concede that I was nervous at the , at the beginning . |
| 24 | I knew that I was fearful of describing the girls I 'd met , because I did n't want to fall into the same traps and judgements we had been talking about ; on the other hand , I was not being totally honest in leaving out their descriptions , because in fact how they looked interested me very much . |
| 25 | In my own survey of visitors to the British Museum in which teams of five interviewers worked for four separate weeks interviewing at the museum entrances I made sure that I was present for at least the first day of each survey and was available by phone during the rest of the time . |
| 26 | One , one of the most common question of the last weeks are we yes last weeks Sunday visiting that I was involved with in my ward was from people who were perturbed , not about means testing because that is not the word that it was about , but about something that is on the same kind of sphere and that was about whether erm East Gates which decided to be their own managers would also be able to their own tenants and keep the ones that were less suitable away from the ones that knew that they were suitable . |
| 27 | But er she 's coming a and gives him twenty five pounds for what he 's done oh he came in , he came into the kitchen , it 's ever so funny , he came into the kitchen to tell me about this you see Anyway he came back in there and I said to him I 'm not really enthusiastic about the thought er thinking that I was involved with this as well so the dear woman turned round and said to me it 's only your husband so I said well I 'd better go back in the kitchen where I know my place . |
| 28 | Along with Siemens Italia SpA president Giorgio Scanavacca , Italian legal authorities arrested Davide Giacalone , former advisor to Oscar Mammi , former minister of post and telecom , on bribery charges : Giacalone is charged with having accepted $5.3m from Giuseppe Parrella , former managing director of ASST , Azienda Telefonica dello Stato SpA , in the minister 's study ; Giacalone has already told the police that he passed the money on to representatives of the Republican party ; for his part , the former PTT minister declared his innocence : ‘ That I was involved in a history of billion-lire bribes is as unfounded as it is untrue — at whatever moment the magistrates tell me it is necessary to investigate my accounts , I will liberate myself immediately from parliamentary immunity , ’ he said . |
| 29 | ‘ I did not realise , ’ he said slowly , ‘ that I was involved in that total exclusion . ’ |
| 30 | Before that I was involved in women 's groups in Ireland and since I 've come here I 've been involved in the Women in Ireland group in London . |