Example sentences of "it was [adj] i [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Lemurs are a delicacy in Madagascar and it was all I could do to stop my fellow passengers eating them , ’ he says . |
| 2 | Over the first four days it was all I could do to get Dawn to step off the perch I 'd set up in the field , with my glove just a few inches away from her . |
| 3 | It was all I could do to keep my feet . ’ |
| 4 | She was heavy and it was all I could do not to let her slide through my arms . |
| 5 | It was all I could do to stop myself from shaking her until her neat white teeth rattled . |
| 6 | it was all I could do to get home . |
| 7 | ‘ My heart was racing so uncontrollably that it was all I could do to say anything at all , ’ she told him . |
| 8 | ‘ It was all I could find — courtesy of Jim , actually , ’ Lindsey admitted wryly . |
| 9 | It was vital I should go first into the town , to the castle , where such news first belongs , and so I did . |
| 10 | It was funny I could n't remember . |
| 11 | It was funny I should have just tidied the room this day , thought Nessie as the two strangers laid Kevin on the new-made bed . |
| 12 | As I had no access to the Swansea accounts during that time , it was clear I could n't have embezzled anything from the company . |