Example sentences of "i was [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At least I was upstairs when it happened , no-one was hurt . |
| 2 | I was upstairs and heard the window smash . |
| 3 | I mean that would have been a disaster I mean it 's only because I was upstairs and I thought oh I can smell boiling . |
| 4 | I do n't know when he goes , I have n't heard the story properly , cos I was upstairs and , er well Ron was half way upstairs and Eileen come on to the landing and I was in the bathroom , so I says I 'll come down , no she says you need n't bother cos we 're not staying we 've only just er come to see how you are |
| 5 | And I was downstairs and they used to be up upstairs was the man what cut all the stuff up , do you see ? |
| 6 | So , anyway , I must have been downstairs doing something and I do n't ne sh sh I did n't know what time this interview feller was coming only , that I was downstairs and I heard Tracey say , oh what 's his name then Mike ? |
| 7 | Last weekend I was away but this one I 'm as free as air . |
| 8 | No one wished to know me , I was away and forgotten . ’ |
| 9 | One day , while I was away and mother was holding the fort , he cracked . |
| 10 | and then I was away and he was n't there any more and I thought , what do I do now ? |
| 11 | I was away and then I had that awful little cough first thing in the morning erm and I think I , to be quite honest , I lost interest in going . |
| 12 | But I was around when Tim Hancock , a self-confident 20-year-old , completed his maiden hundred . |
| 13 | Yep it was against Chelsea or Arse , although he commited his fair share of blunders he was supposed to be ( I was around when he was ) a decent keeper . |
| 14 | Now I do n't know how they managed this dear because she was coming round in the day with little Donna with her and I was around and there you are you see . |
| 15 | I felt I was right but my stock was low on this establishment . |
| 16 | He could see that I was slowly but surely getting back to my old self , and to my own poetry . |
| 17 | I woke up in the middle of the night to find that I was completely and utterly saturated . |
| 18 | And I was really wrecked and I was I was n't even actually ill I just sat , well I was eventually but I sat on this wall for about four hours , yeah |
| 19 | But I was through and not stuck in the dreadful clutch of metal links , not grasped by debris , not drowning without any chance of rescue . |
| 20 | Many of the applicants who had looked suitable had been rejected and I deduced that I had been selected because I had not tried to glamorise my life history , and because I was medically and physically fit . |
| 21 | I was up and running with the package within ten minutes , applying the automatic mode of analysis — and making sense out of it — without reference to the manual . |
| 22 | The next morning I was up and on my way to work by eight o'clock . |
| 23 | So what they says is that I , I got on at this wall , jumped across onto this other wall , shinned up the outside of this other wall , stood on top of this the first floor wall and jumped up and caught hold of the top of the second floor wall and he reckon in the la about fucking twenty odd seconds , I was up and over and in , they , they , they fucking kill yourself , get down , I ca n't remember none of it . |
| 24 | I 'd heard that American Music Club were something wonderful , but when I saw them at the Grand in Clapham recently , I was n't that impressed . |
| 25 | We went off to go see Husbands And Wives , because one of the actresses in that was going to be in the film , someone I was n't that keen on . |
| 26 | ‘ At Bulawayo we had 45,000 crowds for club games and I made my international debut at 14 , so I was n't that ‘ wowed ’ to arrive in England . ’ |
| 27 | I w Well actually I was n't but I 'll have a go . |
| 28 | Cos to me I was n't but they said I was talking posh on the tape . |
| 29 | Oh , I was n't and erm , the next thing I know I 've nearly fucking been bowled over , sort of the bags in fucking look behind me , so those two fucking bought the bags back down fucking legs and I 've just caught this like running round another , another thing , I thought oh fucking little kid , the next thing I know there 's another one gone pass me like , taken the bags , the handles out of the plastic bags , fucking and it was a girl that was going first this time , so I and sure enough there was a little fucking brat boy coming again , so I just went flying he sort of looked up at me and rubbed his eye like that and carried on running after the . |
| 30 | The follow-on of that being ‘ I wonder why I was n't as I 'm such an awful person ’ , and hence the search for help with his past . |