Example sentences of "was [adv] [adj] i [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the trouble was , he was so vile I could n't respect him . |
| 2 | But I was so nervous I could n't get it out properly . |
| 3 | I was so sure I would fail , |
| 4 | But I was so small I can remember very well going down this what we called the Middle Pad , this Roa , it was n't Road , I think it was called Middle Pad . |
| 5 | And when it was so deep I could n't see the bottom , Old Bolton 's prize sow , you know the one who had borne so many litters , there was no space atween her belly and the ground . |
| 6 | ‘ It was so dark I could hardly see where to put my cross on the voting slip — and then I could n't get to the ballot box which was situated in a poky little office . |
| 7 | She says I was so shocked I could n't believe it … |
| 8 | It was so overwhelming I could n't do anything about it , ’ she says . |
| 9 | When I was a boy of fourteen , my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand the old man around . |
| 10 | But I was so confident I would feel the solidness of either chub or root my reactions are not prepared to stop at the end of the strike . |
| 11 | It was so ugly I would 've |
| 12 | I was so hungry I 'd have eaten pork scratchings . |
| 13 | But it was so fleeting I could n't be sure . |
| 14 | Mr Paisley , the politics of Northern Ireland never far from his mind , joked : ‘ Her Majesty mentioned the rain ; I said that was why the grass was so green I could n't get the word orange in . ’ |
| 15 | The best time was in the winter when the snow was so bad I could n't walk the mile across the fields to school . |
| 16 | Indeed this latest move to de-mystify Her Majesty was so unconvincing I could n't help but wonder if — at any moment — Beadle himself ( albeit heavily disguised ) might not appear beside the Queen to inform her that she had been framed . |
| 17 | The heat was so intense I could feel the hairs on my hands singe . ’ |
| 18 | I could n't raise my wrist up without losing all feeling in my hand , and at times the pain was so intense I could n't sleep . |
| 19 | By this time , my temperature and blood pressure was so high I could not even be given a proper anaesthetic . |
| 20 | I was n't going to fight her for it but I was so angry I could have killed her . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ And I was so blind I could n't see it . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I was so cold I could only just press the stop button . |
| 23 | I hurried on , slipping on the black ice , cursing and praying , hammering at the doors I passed but I was so cold I could hardly cry out . |
| 24 | It was so heavy I could hardly seen more than a couple of feet in front of me . ’ |
| 25 | He was so jealous I could live like this |
| 26 | It was so obvious I could n't imagine why I had n't seen it before . |
| 27 | I took a basket of eggs into church last Sunday because I was so afraid I should forget to give them to old Mrs Baldwin on my way home . |
| 28 | well you know we 've been reading stories , little ones , that was only two I could find but there were n't any stories |
| 29 | I 'm supposed to be calling a solicitor but I thought it was only fair I should warn you instead . ’ |
| 30 | And erm I remember my father now even now n although I was only three I can still remember him in his uniform coming home on leave . |