Example sentences of "i [was/were] [adv] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was near it when I saw a man sitting on the ground , half asleep . |
| 2 | I thought I was past it but obviously not . |
| 3 | While I was away it must have rained . |
| 4 | I ca n't believe how calm I was when it all happened . |
| 5 | How glad I was when it was time for breakfast ! |
| 6 | He had mentioned it to me , in a roundabout sort of way , but I could never work out when it had happened or how old I was when it occurred . |
| 7 | In a minute I was up it and over the wall . |
| 8 | Just as he practised the violin every morning between nine thirty and ten thirty , so I always had the sense he practised his lovemaking on me , getting ready for the real thing , only this with me was not it : I was not it . |
| 9 | ‘ Last time I was here it rained for forty days . |
| 10 | ‘ When I was here it was Reid Street senior school for girls but of course now it 's a mixed primary school . |
| 11 | I was inside it , and outside it , at the same time . ’ |
| 12 | The botanical gardens are bare and there are few signs of the famous flower festival exhibitions in the cold grey wet transition between winter and spring : on the four days I was there it rained every day , finally removing the last traces of soot-encrusted snow from the pavements but leaving everything streaked with a post-winter dampness . |
| 13 | When I was there it was one of the most spartan in the country . |
| 14 | But when I was there it was all different . |
| 15 | Well when , when Friar Lawrence returned when he was meant to be giving the letter to Romeo , I was just devastated , I did I just did n't know what to do so all I could do was rush down to the graveyard and try and stop Romeo , by the time I was there it was too late . |
| 16 | When I was there it was You agree do n't you ? |
| 17 | Well it er I was very it 's not a stately home it 's the equivalent I would say to a sort of erm lower landed gentry upper er working class sort of place . |